J.J. McCarthy will make his sixth start Sunday at Lambeau Field against the Green Bay Packers. There is scrutiny over his accuracy and mechanics as he has completed 52.9% of his passes, lowest among 48 starters, with a 22.1% off-target rate ranking 47th. Coach Kevin O'Connell is rebuilding McCarthy's mechanics, emphasizing a consistent posture at the top of his drops and the connection between feet and eyes. O'Connell praised McCarthy's pre-snap work but urged faster improvement post-snap and steadier fundamental execution. McCarthy compared his progress to a cork about to come off a bottle.
"I kind of make the analogy of just a cork about to come off a bottle,"
"Just understanding that it's one to three little things that I need to change about my game that is going to make a huge difference in the outcome of every single drive in the game. So yeah, I feel like it's really close, but it all comes down to the consistency of the fundamentals."
"We just have to find that when it comes to the post-snap, and sometimes it's not even reads and progressions, it's simply just the fundamental foundation that we need to start seeing the concrete kind of dry a little bit on the work that's put in."
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