An unwillingness to get hit goes out the window, because he's getting hit plenty. Maybe pressure because of losses. As for the assistants, Tom Moore is still with the team, so the only assistant that's gone is Howard Mudd, and they weren't talking about his decision making when he was there. I think his absence has had an effect along the offensive line, for sure, but as I said, that doesn't mean that you throw bad balls.
I also think that it's necessary to take the SD game out of the picture, because I don't think any of his three meaningful interceptions were the result of bad throws. He got hit on two of them right as he was releasing (not trying to throw as he's being dragged to the ground), and the other his receiver was interfered with. But against the Pats, all three of those are squarely on his shoulders. The last one it looked like the ball died halfway there, so I don't know if that's a bad decision as much as the ball slipping or him being under pressure and not following through as he normally would. But the other two were bad decisions. And all four against the Cowboys were bad decisions.
The question being why? I don't know. I think it's primarily lack of chemistry with his receiver corps: he has never been in a a groove with Garcon this season; Blair White and Tamme are brand new to the rotation; the backs are all new and/or inexperienced right now; along with poor offensive line play. And as it pertains to his decision-making, an unwillingness to take sacks on crucial downs. This is the lesson he learned when Dungy took over, that sometimes sacks are good, by comparison. A punt is always better than a TAINT (shout out to Simmons). There was a maturity that he gained, where he lost a bit of that gunslinger mentality and started checking down and throwing the ball away more, and while he's certainly checking down now, it's more of a designed check down, not a traditional "last resort" check down. And he's never throwing the ball away and hardly ever tucking it and running. One sack in the last three games, 11 interceptions. (If we go back to 2005, we're talking about how he struggles against 3-4 defenses, so maybe that's an issue against the last three teams.)
He's got to stop trying to carry the offense on his arm, and trust the defense (hard to do) and wait on the next possession. Something he did a great job of against the Jets in the playoffs last year, when they said "we're gonna get him, we're gonna hurt him, we're gonna force him to make mistakes," and they sacked him twice but never really hit him, and he cracked the code in the second quarter and never looked back. Now, he's trying to get it all right now, and it's costing his team possessions, field position, points, etc.
