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A market formed by Hero Worship / Marketing and the lack of Offensive Creativity which limits the available talent pool at the position in the NFL.
And all it would take is some creative offensive minds who can take advantage of the bevy of available talent who have not even been given the opportunity to play the position in this league. These guys, plus those who have been given the opportunity, but were not played to their strengths and failed to transition to the traditional pocket passer model could water down the market tremendously.
I would absolutely LOVE to see Auburn's Gus Malzahn come to the NFL and install his offense (or just many of his packages) to take advantage of these guys and get back to the ULTIMATE GOAL of winning the Super Bowl.
The league, media, and even fans have made imaginary gods of these QBs where they somehow have to have a long shelf life as the face of their franchises for years to come. In fact, the league has even bent over backwards to protect these guys via the rules when it is really the lack of innovation/creativity by NFL teams that shrinks the available talent pool ( thus making them so hard to replace). Maybe I'm just too hard-hearted or something, but if a team's QB has his career shortened by running and the team gets a Super Bowl out of it, then so be it. Isn't that the ULTIMATE GOAL? No one is crying over the RBs who typically go downhill or have careers end at 30 years old. But, our QBs have to have this fairy tale 10-15 year career in order to be deemed a success. Baloney.
And these team's lack of creativity and blinding Hero Worship has teams willing to vastly overpay for even average QBs and/or use high draft choices on inferior overall football players in hope of striking gold at the position. And all of this is done at the expense of building the rest of the TEAM any QB needs to have or sustain success. And nevermind that there have typically been only 5-7 special talents at the position capable of handling the traditional pocket passer role in the entire league at one time over the years.
While great to have, everyone doesn't get one and you don't have to have one of the rare franchise pocket passers to win in this league. Sure, the guy has to be able to make some plays from the pocket, but teams can win if even with a guy that doesn't excel there. That is, if they also play him to his strengths and surround him with enough talent (see Russell Wilson, he threw for 103, 215, & 206 yards last postseason. And the NFC Championship Game featured two starting QBs who had the fewest passing attempts in the NFL).
I can't harp on this enough. I really believe that teams should back off on big investments at the QB position and that the position should be and can be devalued a bit like the running back position has been over the years (though it will probably couldn't go that far). Again, it just takes the right offensive minds and organizations with some guts to buck the norm. Boy, I would really love to see Auburn's Gus Malzahn come to the NFL, implement his offense, and open the blinded eyes of the NFL hierarchy.
And all it would take is some creative offensive minds who can take advantage of the bevy of available talent who have not even been given the opportunity to play the position in this league. These guys, plus those who have been given the opportunity, but were not played to their strengths and failed to transition to the traditional pocket passer model could water down the market tremendously.
I would absolutely LOVE to see Auburn's Gus Malzahn come to the NFL and install his offense (or just many of his packages) to take advantage of these guys and get back to the ULTIMATE GOAL of winning the Super Bowl.
The league, media, and even fans have made imaginary gods of these QBs where they somehow have to have a long shelf life as the face of their franchises for years to come. In fact, the league has even bent over backwards to protect these guys via the rules when it is really the lack of innovation/creativity by NFL teams that shrinks the available talent pool ( thus making them so hard to replace). Maybe I'm just too hard-hearted or something, but if a team's QB has his career shortened by running and the team gets a Super Bowl out of it, then so be it. Isn't that the ULTIMATE GOAL? No one is crying over the RBs who typically go downhill or have careers end at 30 years old. But, our QBs have to have this fairy tale 10-15 year career in order to be deemed a success. Baloney.
And these team's lack of creativity and blinding Hero Worship has teams willing to vastly overpay for even average QBs and/or use high draft choices on inferior overall football players in hope of striking gold at the position. And all of this is done at the expense of building the rest of the TEAM any QB needs to have or sustain success. And nevermind that there have typically been only 5-7 special talents at the position capable of handling the traditional pocket passer role in the entire league at one time over the years.
While great to have, everyone doesn't get one and you don't have to have one of the rare franchise pocket passers to win in this league. Sure, the guy has to be able to make some plays from the pocket, but teams can win if even with a guy that doesn't excel there. That is, if they also play him to his strengths and surround him with enough talent (see Russell Wilson, he threw for 103, 215, & 206 yards last postseason. And the NFC Championship Game featured two starting QBs who had the fewest passing attempts in the NFL).
I can't harp on this enough. I really believe that teams should back off on big investments at the QB position and that the position should be and can be devalued a bit like the running back position has been over the years (though it will probably couldn't go that far). Again, it just takes the right offensive minds and organizations with some guts to buck the norm. Boy, I would really love to see Auburn's Gus Malzahn come to the NFL, implement his offense, and open the blinded eyes of the NFL hierarchy.
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