Accuracy on the run
Pretty much any quarterback with mild talent can throw accurate passes when they’re standing still and aren’t getting pressured. It’s what happens when the play and the mechanics break down. Can they still put the ball on the numbers even when their feet aren’t set? A great way to determine that is how they throw when on the run. Is their ball placement impacted too much by having to contort their body and arm to different positions?
Rodgers is the best in the NFL when throwing on the move and it’s not even close. This throw is one of many example. Bad weather. Difficult footing. It doesn’t matter. Rodgers buys time moving to his right, searching for anybody open. He then fires a pass across his body in a tight window right on the button to Randall Cobb for the TD.
On this play Trubisky shows another aspect of throwing on the run. Going across the body is one thing, but being able to throw towards the sideline over a defender without it going too far out of bounds is just as difficult.
It’s the kind of improvisational ability that NFL teams are inevitably going to need at some point every year if they want to win tight football games. Trubisky has shown on multiple occasions he can do it.
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