No question that QB is the key position on the football field.....and if you get it right, it rea.lly is worth 5 guys. Unfortunately the key phrase her is "get it right". What I find so incomprehensible is how a kid can look so good his rookie year and so bad since.
At NFL.com one of the podcasts is with Billick and Marriuci. When they discussed RG3 they noted how many wide open receivers he misses. No, not receivers he throws to and misfires. Receivers he just doesn't see down field. They tried to speculat on why that may happen and they really couldn't come up with an answer.
Its pretty clear that he has to get out of DC and start again, otherw ise he's going to wind up like Tim Tebow and disappear. Gruden was supposed to be some kind of "QB whisperer", and he has been...... to Colt McCoy. He can still be a good QB, but he needs both time and coaching.
RG3 is a perfect example of how hard it is to play NFL QB....and it has little to do with how strong your arm is. It has much more to do with how well wired your brain is. The innate ability to rapidly process large amounts of information and come up with the right decisions 96% of the time is exceedingly rare. It not only takes innate skill, it takes a lot of time to learn.
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In today's NFL QB's are ruoutinesly thrown into the fire and most sink. The list is endless. Yet look at the current crop of great NFL QB's (Brady, Brees, Manning, RThisomo, Rodgers, Rothessberger etc), Only Manning and Rothlessberge started as rookies
Time is the enemy of young QB's these days. Even with the rare sucessess like Luck, we have seen how rocking that road of development really is in the microcosm of Luck's 3 games vs the Pats. We all tend to anonit them too early and tear them down too fast,
Garapalo may never play meaning ful snaps for the Pats, but whe he does get his chance, he will lkely be ready. In fact , for most it takes 2 or 3 years to begin to reach their potentials. No one in their right mind would want to trade in the current version of don ta Hightower for his rookie one. For that matter, no one would want to trade the current version of Jaime Collikns for the September version