(10-24-2017, 06:51 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(10-24-2017, 02:37 AM)FreeAgent01 Wrote: I get that running a lot can lead to injuries.  Most people get that.  But how much are you going to really penalize a player for injury concerns when he has never been injured in his entire career and has no medical history?  The only time I can even really remember him getting up slow is a game where he got racked in his "private area."

The judge of whether a team runs a pro style passing attack is whether they've had any successful starting NFL quarterbacks?  That's new to me.  I guess 95% of college teams have never run a pro style passing game before in their 100 year histories.

He has, however, prepared multiple quarterbacks to be high draft picks.

Lamar Jackson - (Likely First Rounder)
Tyler Wilson - 4th rounder
Ryan Mallett - 3rd rounder
Brian Brohm - 2nd rounder

Seems like he's done an okay job of developing young quarterbacks to play in the NFL.

RG3 wasn't hurt in college that much either and when he started running around in the NFL it essentially ended his career. The NFL has the best of the best. Jackson isn't gonna be able to rack up huge stats like he did against Kent State, Murray State and Boston College. In the NFL, he's gonna have to learn to sit in the pocket and wait for his reads to develop. Linebackers, Safeties and D-Linemen in the NFL are bigger, faster and they hit a lot harder. If he takes off and runs, even at a rate half of what he does now, he's gonna get injured. It's inevitable. 

Getting QB's to be high draft picks mean nothing if those guys are failures in the NFL. All that list of QB's does, is show me that Petrino's system is not NFL friendly and disguises the flaws of those QB's. Maybe Jackson will be the exception, but I'm looking at history and between the system he is in and the massive amounts of chances he takes by running the football, I just don't believe Jackson is a good option. 

That's just my opinion.

RG3 tore his ACL and missed an entire season in college... The same ACL he tore with the Redskins... And it didn't happen while he was running around - it was a bad snap that he was trying to pick up.

Most of Lamar Jackson's run plays are called from the sidelines in read/option. It's not like he's looking downfield and taking off after his first read. He's far from Johnny Manziel.

You don't think a coach who got most of his quarterbacks to be highly touted draft prospects even though they never had the skills to play in the NFL is impressive? Ryan Mallett wasn't drafted because of his scrambling ability, let me assure you of that. Your logic is so far flawed it makes it difficult to argue with. How many starting quarterbacks did North Dakota State produce before Carson Wentz? Heath Shuler busted so it must be proof that Phil Fulmer didn't have a pro style passing game and therefore Peyton Manning should have never been drafted because he wasn't prepared to be a pro passer. Mind bottling.

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