(10-24-2017, 08:50 AM)FreeAgent01 Wrote:

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

I forgot about RG3 tearing his MCL, but don't you think all the running he did, might've contributed to the injury?

I could argue that those QB's might've had the talent to be NFL QB's, but Petrino's system didn't prepare them for the NFL and put them at a huge disadvantage. There's two sides to every coin. Ryan Mallett was drafted purely on his arm talent, but the guy was a head case. I could draw a lot of comparisons to him and Ryan Leaf, except Mallett wasn't quite as bad. 

Carson Wentz is just a special player. As I said in another post, when he entered the draft, I had the highest grade on him that I'd given a QB since Andrew Luck. He just has that "it" factor. Although he is having an outstanding year, I will still reserve judgement on him, at least until after his first contract is completed, but so far, he appears to be a stud. Heath Schuler and Peyton Manning are two completely different prospects from Jackson. They have totally different skill sets and were asked to do totally different things than Jackson is doing. Both were pure drop back passers, who only ran when they were flushed from the pocket, so I don't get the comparison to Jackson. It's not so "mind bottling." Just let you mind out of that bottle. 

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