11-15-2019, 09:41 AM
(11-14-2019, 07:22 PM)J24 Wrote: Because he isn't that good and Quarterbacks who are built by running the ball don't last in the league. Take out his games against Us and the Dolphins and you get an average QB.
Ding... Ding... Ding... Ding.... Winner, Winner... Chicken Dinner.
Marvin himself has even said that scrambling QBs don't last and that all it takes is that one solid hit on the guy.
Pocket passers are something else entirely. While the pocket passer's ability changes and some are better than others, the belief is that pocket passers are interchangeable to a degree and you can put any pocket passer in and win games. When Brady went down, they put in Matt Cassell, the Patriots didn't miss a beat. When Dalton went out in 2015, McCarron came a fumble from Hill away from winning a playoff game.
Wentz is a bit of a pocket passer / scrambling QB (also known as a dual threat), so it wasn't too much of a transition to go from Wentz to Foles and that worked out well for the Eagles.
Sometimes the change over can improve the team, as is the case with the Panthers. Cam has been losing effectiveness as the years keep rolling. The RBs have played better and the WRs as well. Cam ad libbed a lot and that made players unsure of what to do, with Allen they just do what Norv Turner calls up and execute, no second guessing on what Cam will do first, then executing based off his actions. When they tried to just execute with Cam, Cam wasn't as effective.
Most of the time your offense suffers... horribly when the 1 person you built it around goes down. The window for the Ravens with Jackson is very small. If he is injured then that closes the window even faster. Even pocket passers are at risk of getting injured, scrambling QBs increase that risk greatly every play.
Jackson also has the benefit of playing against the 2018 and 19 Bengals defense as well as the 2019 Miami Dolphins. This skews his numbers a bit and is a bit of a fool's gold with him. Against better coached teams, he doesn't look all that special.
