Thread: 6.5 yards...

Originally Posted by topscribe

He had one of the quickest releases, if not THE quickest, I have ever seen . . .

Agreed-

Have you noticed how much Rivers release looks like Marino? I’ve thought that for years. I then heard a couple of years ago that his favorite qb growing up was Marino. Fascinating..

Him and Manning.

Originally Posted by Al Wilson 4 Mayor

Agreed-

Have you noticed how much Rivers release looks like Marino? I’ve thought that for years. I then heard a couple of years ago that his favorite qb growing up was Marino. Fascinating..

And Rivers became a very good QB. He's probably, what, about 90% of Marino?
He can't negotiate the pocket like Marino could though, IMO.

Originally Posted by topscribe

And Rivers became a very good QB. He's probably, what, about 90% of Marino?
He can't negotiate the pocket like Marino could though, IMO.

He didn’t have Marino’s arm talent either

Originally Posted by topscribe

And Rivers became a very good QB. He's probably, what, about 90% of Marino?
He can't negotiate the pocket like Marino could though, IMO.

He doesn’t have Marino’s arm talent either

Originally Posted by Al Wilson 4 Mayor

He doesn’t have Marino’s arm talent either

I heard you the first time . . .

Originally Posted by topscribe

I heard you the first time . . .

Did I say that? I got up at 5:20 today and worked about 10 hours. The cognitive skills are a little faded right now.

Oh, ha ha, just saw the double post. This I will also attribute to mental fatigue

Originally Posted by SmilinAssasSin27

...is the average distance traveled in the air for every completed pass in the NFL last year. This according to NFLNetwork.

If the average is so short, is it possible that the actual importance of the QB position is a bit overrated? If you have a QB who makes very few mistakes and has weapons who can create big plays, does that stat prove those are more important than the physical specimen gun slinger?

If this were true they wouldn’t have to pay $18 M/per.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

I think MO's inclusion of pocket mobility is perhaps the most important. Adding a couple seconds to a play and occasionally negating a pass rush while delivering from a mobile platform is incredibly difficult to negate from a defensive coordinator's point of view. This is the main reason why I think the Keenum signing is kosher.

Translation; when you’re 6 years into your career and still can’t get past your first/preferred receiver you better be able to buy time for your receivers to make it easier for you.

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

Marino was judged to be a top mobile QB on an NFL show of top 10's. At first I was like WTF, but kind of understood it once they explained.

I still don't agree with their assessment, but understand it.

I remember that top 10, and remember that left Elway off the list.

Intelligence and accuracy are the two most important qualities in a QB by magnitudes of 100.

Originally Posted by chazoe60

Intelligence and accuracy are the two most important qualities in a QB by magnitudes of 100.

And field vision, footwork, and performance under pressure.

Originally Posted by Jaded

Translation; when you’re 6 years into your career and still can’t get past your first/preferred receiver you better be able to buy time for your receivers to make it easier for you.

If he doesn’t run backwards under pressures and turn the ball over 2-3 times a game, sign me up.

Arm strength is not overrated when you got a popgun like CK, Chad Pennington and Kyle Boreton.

I love it, when Kubiak was running this offense with NFL arm talent it was the worst thing ever, but if you run it subpar QB talent it’s practically virtuous. All measurables become overrated.

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!