Everyone giving credit to Daboll for Josh Allen development. He had some part of it but I think the most responsible person for Josh Allen becoming great IS Josh Allen.
He understood that for him to become great he had to fix his mechanics. He couldn’t hit the side of barn when he came out of college. But he became maniacal about his mechanics, honestly on almost a Brady level and that fixed a lot of his problems.
Josh Allen admitted he had the time to work on it because he was bored during covid and the fact he had nothing else to do was incredibly helpful for him to focus on that. He also had lower body issue which caused upper body issues which was kind of a unique issue that not many QB's have.
Ironically one of his fixes to keep his shoulder staying behind his hip turn (big issue for him before 2020) was to start with the ball going back lower. Tom Brady, the man of perfect QB mechanics, brings the ball straight up. He would NEVER do what Allen does. But it works for Allen who is pretty good MVP worthy QB. There are PERFECT Tom Brady mechanics and there are mechanics that work for other people that are not perfect.
The fact Allen needs to bring the ball lower, like Drake Maye does, is probably why he still has some massive misses, but it's made him more accurate overall because that small issue is much better than his really bad issue he had.
Drake was one of the most accurate deep ball throwers in college, best in years on tape. Down the field he is money, you don't mess too much with that but you can improve his motion on shorter throws. He tries to use the same longer windup on shorter throws but the mechanics make the probability of getting out of synch higher and the fact he has to put less into the throw can throw off the arm placement.
His throwing motion works great for him on most throws but he needs to adjust his mechanics for shorter throws to compact the throwing motion. The longer the motion the more chance to get out of whack. He's done it enough that he almost always gets his arm and ball in the correct position before throwing. It's like a golf swing, all that matters is the club face when you hit the ball, how you get there is meaningless other than some ways of doing it lead to more consistency.
Let's not go crazy and think Patriots don't have people working with Maye on this. You can see many throws where he is great on mechanics. It does seem when he is too hyped at beginning of games, when he starts avoiding the rush he falls back into his less accurate mechanics. Some of that could be mental, some of that is the fact it's harder to simulate 300 pound guys trying to kill you when working on mechanics in practice.
Nobody that has worked with him ever questioned his work ethic.
Let's not also forget when this season ends Maye will be younger than Daniels was at the beginning of LAST season.
