Copy cat league changing thoughts on QB prospects

The success of RG3, Cam Newton, Russell Wilson and even Andrew Luck has teams reconsidering the way they rate the QB coming out of college.

I find this absolutely ridiculous, does a QB need to be a runner, no but does he have to be athletic to side step the rush?  Yes most definitely.

There is a difference between the two.  The NFL has taken so many steps to protect the QB to ensure offenses continue to succeed to put points on the board which keeps butts in the seats as well as viewers watching on TV. Fact

All bets are off when it comes to protecting the QB as soon he becomes a runner. Yes, they can still slide to avoid a tackle but if you are running inside consistently, you are going to get your guy roughed up. It takes a toll on your thrower and can impact the entire team, ask Phildelphia.

Personally, your QB needs to have the athleticism to extend a play with his feet but complete it with his arm. Teams mortgage their future to hit on a franchise QB (Washington) and why in the hell would you put your most prized and valuable commodity in a position to take more hits.

A QB prospect that cannot extend the play with his feet and beat you with his arm should be not be a high prospect regardless. A QB that can only run the ball but struggles to beat you through the air can be easily defeated in the NFL.  They can get away with it in college but not in the pros.  Fact until proven otherwise where it counts, Super Bowls son!

The count is still at zero!  Ask Philadelphia (Vick, Randall Cunningham), Denver (Tebow), Minnesota (Tavaris Jackson), Dallas (Quincy Carter), Tennessee (Vince Young) and Pittsburgh (Kordell Stewart). The arguement can go on forever debating whether or not the likes of John Elway, Steve Young, Steve McNair and Donovan mcNabb were running QBs or QBs who could extend plays with their feet but beat you with their arm.

Fact is there are about 15-20 great to quality quarterbacks capable of handling an NFL offense and beating a defense consistently on Sundays, that means there are less than one for every team in the NFL. With the hopes of a championship riding on keeping your quarterback in the game, again I ask, why in the hell would you put them in that position to take more hits?

I am not changing what I look for in a NFL QB prospect, a good arm, anticipate your throws with accuracy, plus footwork, progress through your reads, find passing lanes and extend the play with your feet but beat the defense with your arm.

Eagles better than Cowboys? (Continued)

Week II vs the Falcons, 13:01 in the 3rd quarter with 1st and 10 for Eagles offense. They trail 10-14 in the game at this point. The Eagles offense often would begin a series in shotgun highlighting their attacking mentality but defenses initially would not just sit back and let Vick tear them apart.

The Falcons show a safety blitz coming off the left side, but watch what the Eagles offensive line do to protect their QB. The RB McCoy can pick up the safety but that linebacker next to the safety will blitz as well if McCoy stays in to pass protect.


The offensive line slides their protection to the right even though the TE 87 Brent Celek stays in also to protect. That gives the Eagles 7 blockers to take on the 6 defenders coming for Atlanta. Advantage Eagles but 71 Jason Peters follows the end as he collapses inside but the left guard Evan Mathis does not slide over to pick up the LB. Argument can be made that Peters should have let his man go to Mathis so he could pick up the LB.

From view behind Vick, the RB McCoy is left with 2 blitzers and makes the proper decision, pick up the most inside defender as the safety has a longer path to get to Vick. 


The point is the failure in the offensive line protection call that Vick should have seen pre-snap that the safety was coming especially coming from Vick's left. He does manage to juke out the safety but steps up into the blitzing LB forcing a inaccurate throw across the middle for an interception. Two plays later, the Falcons score on a pass to Tony Gonzalez to extend their lead to 21-10.

Vick was later knocked out of this game in the 3rd quarter putting in Mike Kafka into the lineup. The Falcons offense scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter and a 35-31 point victory.