http://cbs.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9358699/2
As an example, he cited Young's work on three-, five- and seven-step drops. When Rhome first demonstrated for his understudy, showing him how to retreat seven paces before steadying himself to throw, Young shook his head in disbelief.
"Man," he said, "that seems like a long way back there."
And it was. Especially after Young tried it. Where Rhome wanted him to set up eight-to-eight-and-half yards behind center, Young was taking it to 10 -- largely because he has such an enormous stride.
No problem. The two made corrections, and Young began to get his steps down. He shortened his stride. His confidence grew. Setting his feet wasn't an issue. Neither was delivering the football, and don't take it from me. Ask the people who attended his workout.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/don_banks/03/23/don/index.html
Scouts seemed to like Young's footwork enough when he went into three-, five- and seven-step drops after taking simulated snaps from center, and his athleticism was on full display when he threw the ball on rollouts. His 40 or so passes were equally divided among short, intermediate and deep patterns, and he threw them all with proficiency, albeit in that sidearm delivery that still makes some talent evaluators a bit nervous.
"He's a great athlete, and he looked very comfortable in dropping back,'' the NFC-club personnel man said. "His thing is going to be learning at the next level. He's going to have a learning curve like every other young quarterback. It'll be, with him, working to read defenses and recognize looks, and going through his progressions. But there's no question he had a great workout.''
Since I have to spell it out for you; what are you expecting scouts to say while a guy throws against air, how ecstatic about his feet can a scout be in that situation?
Now you find me something, anything that says Young's footwork was horrible during any of his workouts, 'cause I sure ain't seen it...
The scouts were all wrong on Montana because they didn't notice his footwork (Walsh did), they were all hung up over his lack of arm strength.
And let me just throw this in...
"If anyone is going to make a mistake on him," said Rhome, "it's because they're looking at him on film. He's not the most polished guy on film. But look at him now: He's such a quick learner. He did what he was asked to do."