He is ahead of where I thought he would be.
I was giving him till week 8 to start producing and he has done it the last 3 weeks, which is earlier than I thought we would start to see serious numbers go up on the boards in term of him personally and the teams scoring.
To me he is progressing well. I never deluded myself that this was not going to be a long process before we see a finished product. This is based on Mitch as well as the history of most young QBs. Very few/no QBs come into the league and are immediately good and stay good. There are struggles and regressions over the course of a couple of years.
Mitch continues to grow in areas that encourage me,
1. He is seeing the field much better. Early in the season he would have wide open guys running and he would not even get to them in his reads. As he has gotten more comfortable in the offense he is making the right reads, he is just inconsistently making the throws.
2. He is getting more comfortable with his weapons. Earlier in the season he was missing Gabriel on everything and now they seem to be on the same page. Earlier in the season he could not find Trey Burton, now he finds him whenever he is in trouble. Now it seems that he is going through the process with Anthony Miller, who he has missed on 4/5 worst throws the last 2 weeks.
3. His pocket presence is way better. Earlier in the season he was running around like a confused animal. Now when he leaves the pocket it is with purpose and has been a positive. He ran the ball 6 times against the Patriots, he converted 4 3rd downs and the other to were for 11 and 39 yards. That is purposeful leaving the pocket. He is not taking the sacks he was before, both sacks against the Patriots in my opinion were bad reps by Leno.
This is a process. He needs to develop more consistency and efficiency, but through 6 games this is progress.