I should have known better than to waste my time posting when you've got guys like crayonz and Beebe's Kid who would turn this into a white and black thing. BTW ieatBFinIndiana, Elway never rushed for over 304 yards in a season so that would hardly classify him as an athletic/scrambling QB.
While I admit that maybe I should have used the term scrambling more so than athletic since it was interpreted differently than I intended my point remains valid, scrambling QBs do not win in the NFL. Guys who rely on pure athleticism at the QB position do not win in the NFL (Steve Young being the outlier here, but was a great passer in his own right). Being mobile in the pocket is great for a QB, but that does not classify them as an athletic/scrambler in this argument (again sorry for the misunderstanding) and at the end of the day they are still making their money plays from the pocket.
Addressing the "old war/last war" analysis theory, the super athletic, scrambling passing QB revolution has been coming for years and I have yet to see it in the NFL. It works in college where the talent levels between two teams varies greatly and one super athlete can dominate the game, but it has yet to work at the NFL level. To plan for the future that has supposedly been coming for 20 years now would be fool-hardy. At the end of the day, my money is on the QB who can think on his feet vs the guy who tries to beat you with his feet.