Quote:Carr, Mariota, and Prescott look fine but it's too early too really tell. None of those 3 even have a playoff victory and we've seen flashes in the pan before, people seemed to think Kaepernick was something special for 2 seasons in 2012-13, now when he isn't an unclaimed free agent in a qb needy leagye, he's off getting benched for Gabbert.

Newton is a tough one, I'll give him to you since he was MVP one year, but if you really look at his career stats, he has failed to develop as a passer. He has 2 winning seasons in 6, a career .500 qb, 58% completions and 53% last year. He's a good player because he has a physical talent, but he is far from even a good passer.


Instead of going point by point here, i'd just suggest reading the article. I've explained that not every spread qb sucks, but there are reasons for why there is skepticism around drafting spread QBs. Apples to Apples, a conventional QB vs Spread QB, the spread QB has a higher rate being a bust, that has nothing to do with how many QBs run the spread, we're talking percentages. It is a hurdle to be overcome no matter how you slice it and if you want to buck the conventional wisdom that spread offense systems do not prepare you as well for the NFL, you're going to have to show more than a couple qbs with only a handful of seasons and no playoff victories under their belt.

The point is the adjustment really isn't that big of a gulf anymore. You can look at Carr, Mariota, Prescott and see they are perfectly capable of playing in an NFL offense, and that the offenses they run in the NFL even has a good bit of spread looks to help them out.


You see I'm not trying to say its isn't a hurdle to overcome. Just that its not as big of a hurdle as people think. The QBs I mentioned pretty much show the trend over the last while , of spread QBs being drafted and being able to make the jump. Can has had trash at receiver and at the line and still has had success.


The upcoming QBs in this class Watson, Trubisky and Mahomes play in spread of our air raid offenses and there have been claims that they don't read defenses or go through progressions, when in reality they do all of that, just like a conventional QB would.

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