Inconsistency and redemption were the words of the day, centered around one player: Joshua Dobbs. The former Tennessee quarterback has a reputation for being inconsistent, and as noted yesterday his Senior Bowl week got off to a shaky start. But today he was the class of the South squad. This started early during the first segment of practice, an 11-on-11 session, where he threw a beautiful crossing route to Alabama tight end O.J. Howard.
When the South moved over into some one-on-one drills, Dobbs remained crisp, throwing a beautiful back shoulder throw along the right sideline to start the session and remaining strong through the portion of practice, displaying some solid ball placement and some good anticipation for most of his throws. Meanwhile, Davis Webb and Antonio Pipkin remained inconsistent. Webb threw an out route late and well behind his target, hitting the defensive back in the back shoulder. He rebounded with a good vertical route that was dropped, but then overthrew another vertical route, and overthrew Ryan Switzer (North Carolina) on a comeback route. Pipkin was late on a hitch route during this session, and missed on two vertical routes, a sideline 9 route, and a seam route.
During the skelton session, Pipkin was late on a corner route at one point, and left too much air under the football, and the safety rotated over and made the interception. This is a good learning point for the quarterback, as he’s seeing faster safeties this week with more range. He’s used to throws like that being completed as the safety likely gets there a step late. Pipkin also hesitated on one curl concept, although he showed some frustration after that play, as if he expected the receiver to break a different way, which might explain the delay in getting the football out of his hands. Dobbs continued to shine, showing very good anticipation and placement on a comeback. However he did miss Josh Reynolds on one play on a vertical route, when the WR used a nearly-flawless release against the press but Dobbs never saw him. However, it’s possible that route was not in the quarterback’s progression on the play.
Finally, two throws really stood out during the team session. Dobbs executed a beautiful throw on a play-action play, carrying out a fake to his right and then rolling to his left, doing a great job of getting his shoulders turned to the target and throwing one more comeback route with timing, anticipation and placement. But the throw of this session was from the Tiffin University product. On a vertical concept, he flashed his eyes to the right sideline to move the free safety outside, and then brought his field of vision to the middle of the field to find Ole Miss tight end Evan Engram open up the seam, before dropping in a well-placed throw that the TE snared with his hands. This was a great play from Pipkin and one to close out his day on.
Wrapping up the day of work, I remain impressed by Peterman and he continues to be the top QB down in Mobile. But the day that Josh Dobbs turned in is tough to ignore. He made a number of great throws, showed timing, anticipation, and good placement on most of his routes. This was a much improved performance from yesterday, and if the week is about getting a baseline on a player and seeing how they adapt and react to coaching, taking to advice and evolving in a new system, Dobbs really helped himself today.
he was listed at 6'1 damn....not even 9inch hands. What a shame I thought I saw some nice stuff on film
but then again he is in that air raid system that inflates numbers 
dude has that uncoaching burst out of breaks 
first round talent
