to throw if the receiver wasn't wide open.
Most of us were hoping he would make that last jump, which he did about 3 games into his senior season.
Retzlaff's issues to me are far more physical. A sidewinder motion makes accuracy difficult to achieve and results in a lot of batted balls.
He has the arm strength 100% to be good, but you can see we have basically abandoned the deep ball as he can't throw it. The same deep ball that Hall and Wilson hit over and over again. If you want to be an elite college QB you can't miss those throws. Not to mention the fades. I am not a fan of them, but a well thrown fade should be an incompletion at worst. Jake has missed each of the two by no less than 5 yards (2nd was more like 10) That is inexcusable at this level.