Quote:No thanks, give me Old Elway (the dude that didn't scramble) or Marino, and you can take any QB that has scrambling abilities.  Steve Young I guess is the 1 exception that proves the rule that pocket QBs are the way to a championship, but even he didn't really scramble all that much as he got older. 

 

I can't think of 1 QB that had consistent playoff success and was considered an exceptional running QB.  Maybe that will change over time, but as of right now, that's not the case.

 

And before you mention RGIII, Kaepernick, and Russell Wilson, I want to emphasise consistent playoff success.  Consistent meaning at least 4 or 5 playoff runs where they at least won 1 playoff game.  Can you really name any in recent memory that did this? 

 

As QBs get older and become better, they take off to run less and less.  Probably because it's still a passing league.  Untill they put flags on QBs and don't let anyone hit them, the running QB is a short term effect of youth that dies out as QBs either get better at reading Ds and throwing, or they just wash out of the league.

I would agree about Elway and Marino. I think the game is evolving tho. The rush rushers are so much quicker and powerful these days (except ours). The blitz packages more complex. Mobility and escapability are becoming more crucial assets in a quarterback. If you are being blitzed and escape....you can make a big play down the field. The days of the likes of Byron Leftwich are over. Great passer but dude was a statue. I thought one of the first modern mobile quarterbacks was Steve McNair. I was a nightmare trying to contain. The knock on him was that he couldn't pass. That was true for a while.....but he got better. Was one yard from a Super Bowl win.

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