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Pro Bowl Player
- Joined
- Jun 15, 2005
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- Reaction score
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I would rather have a guy who focused on becoming great at passing, than a guy who was also focusing on his running game at the expense (since there's only so many hours in a practice session) of the pass game.
It's not a video game and this isn't an RPG character. Jackson doesn't need to allocate limited skill points to develop his running ability. If the Patriots draft Lamar Jackson, they're not going to throw out their offense and start running the wishbone and the triple option, which is what a lot of people seem to imply with the "running quarterback" thing. He'll be a pocket passer, just like he was in college; he'll play similarly to Russell Wilson.
My point to the Flutie and Gannon examples was that there's no one profile for quarterbacks who play into their 40s. There's only a handful of these guys in league history and they're widely divergent in how they played football or what they were like coming into the NFL. Plenty of mobile quarterbacks entering the league like Gannon have reinvented themselves into traditional pocket passers as they got into their 30s. Eagles Vick was much less of a runner than Falcons Vick, and Vick played 15 years in the league. McCown's an interesting example because he was a proficient runner when he first came out and had 3 or 4 attempts per game when he was a starter in Arizona. He still had 3 rushing attempts per game last season in New York and scrambled well, scoring 5 rushing TDs.
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