Quarter Backs - Into the NFL

[Longboysfan]

Is it just me or does it seem like the major power colleges don't care about grooming a quarterback with a full skill set.

It seems to me that the Major Colleges was a very athletic QB. Let him get there in the passing game - use speed receivers.
At the snap make 1 maybe 2 reads. Pull it down then run.....

This helps major college powers win now.. WIN NOW!!!!!.

So for the past many years we do not see more than a handful of entry level from college QB's that read the entire field.

 

[Wolfpack]

Is it just me or does it seem like the major power colleges don't care about grooming a quarterback with a full skill set.

It seems to me that the Major Colleges was a very athletic QB. Let him get there in the passing game - use speed receivers.
At the snap make 1 maybe 2 reads. Pull it down then run.....

This helps major college powers win now.. WIN NOW!!!!!.

So for the past many years we do not see more than a handful of entry level from college QB's that read the entire field.

You are correct, speed, and simple reads In space rule currently. It works so it's not changing.

 

[Biggems]

The job of the college coach is to win games, not to groom the 3 or so players from his roster who might make it to the NFL. I have no issue with the coaches doing what they are doing. If he player has pro aspirations, then train on the side and improve.

 

[Longboysfan]

The job of the college coach is to win games, not to groom the 3 or so players from his roster who might make it to the NFL. I have no issue with the coaches doing what they are doing. If he player has pro aspirations, then train on the side and improve.

Or go to a school that produces pro quarterbacks.

 

[John813]

Lately it's been tougher to say with some confidence that a Quarterback from a big school can come into the NFL and turn out to be a long term starter. I think it also hurts their chances when the team has next to no one to give the rookie a challenge for the spot, and he is thrown out there with next to no weapons, O-line and a grasp of the playbook/reads.

 

[DFWJC]

At least there's a rookie cap.

 

[Doomsday101]

Is it just me or does it seem like the major power colleges don't care about grooming a quarterback with a full skill set.

It seems to me that the Major Colleges was a very athletic QB. Let him get there in the passing game - use speed receivers.
At the snap make 1 maybe 2 reads. Pull it down then run.....

This helps major college powers win now.. WIN NOW!!!!!.

So for the past many years we do not see more than a handful of entry level from college QB's that read the entire field.

True because most are now operating out of the read option.

 

[Longboysfan]

So that is what we see with RG3. Read then run.

 

[Longboysfan]

Interesting thing I was thinking of yesterday at night.

The Cowboys took a ling shot chance on Staubach.
He was a read then run QB.
Landry finally got him to see the light of the offense. Hall of Fame.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

The rate that college coaches get paid these days, it's hard to care too much about what they do in the pros. The ones that do come from small programs and realize that the only way to get recruits is coach up players well enough to where they consistently get those players drafted.

Part of the issue is that the league tends to fail to fit QB's into their schemes.

The biggest offenders are the WCO guys. It's a very timing based offense where everything runs in conjunction with the QB's footwork. And the footwork isn't simple by any means. And for some reason they think that running QB's will fit into a WCO better despite having awful footwork.

The other problem is that teams want to start rookie QB's right away. If a QB has some pretty severe throwing motion problems, that likely requires a year on the bench because you're re-training their movement patterns and the speed of the game makes it more difficult because when things are moving fast, the QB will revert to their old throwing motion. Then you have to consider other things like understanding an NFL playbook, reading defenses, getting physically stronger, etc. And teams repeatedly try to start these guys right away.

It's just a recipe that will result in failure more often than not.




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[joseephuss]

Interesting thing I was thinking of yesterday at night.

The Cowboys took a ling shot chance on Staubach.
He was a read then run QB.
Landry finally got him to see the light of the offense. Hall of Fame.

Staubach was not a long shot. All of college football was about running the ball back in those days.