I love watching high scoring spread type offenses in college football but when it comes to guaging the QBs and how they will do in the pros coming from that type of offense...it can be very frustrating.
You can see the arm strength, you can see the quickness of his release, you can see his wind up motion, you can see his pocket awareness (or lack of) to sense pressure, you can see if he is athletic or not.
However a good number of times you don't get to see how much info they can process in a pro style offense and in the huddle...because most times their coaches do it all for them on the sidelines with Pictures to help simplify it for them. Many times these QBs only play in offenses that almost always start with the shotgun formation. Many times the simplification of the offenses tend to give the QB one read in the passing game and if it is more than one read than the other reads are usually on one side of the field so they are not scanning the whole field.
Can some of these QBs come into the NFL, go into a professional style offense that actually has a large play book and the coaches don't have them look to the sidelines (with the rest of the players offense) to look at a group of pictures and watch the coach to get the calls. Can that QB learn that play book, implemement that play book, convey those calls to his team on offense, read the defense, listen to his Olinemen call outs.
Just hard to know how those QBs will do. To many times some of these guys are basically playing sandlot football and just throwing stuff up for grabs and playing with their hair on fire. Or they are just running too much, or they have HUGE separations with the WR vs the CB because the team or WR is so superior
So I love these high scoring offenses in college but I think for the most part it severely limits the learning of a QB during that time in many cases and it sometimes takes them longer, if ever, before they can be a real starting NFL QB that actually knows what is going on.
Sometimes we see them come in like wild fire with a simplified offense in the NFL where they are asked to run a good deal or do a one read, one side of the field offense...but sooner or later the NFL catches up with that and I think that is why you see the likes of RGIII tear it up initially and now stink it up...sure his injuries have limited his running ability but with that said it should have made it even more of a priority for him to work on his basic QB fundamentals and now we see the Head Coach even questioning those fundamentals.
