Tipster19 Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 1 hour ago, Bill_with_it said: Tipster if you have watched for years of football then you have seen multiple teams try and employ a 2 qb approach and fail miserably. Too include the great Tom Landry. The game continues to evolve and so does the athlete. Yesteryear’s athlete could not sustain in today’s game, they went the same way as the dinosaur. There is another topic in it’s own right, today’s athlete vs yesteryear’s athlete. How would they stack up in today’s game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klos63 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Some teams don't even have 1 quality QB, let alone 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_with_it Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 34 minutes ago, Tipster19 said: The game continues to evolve and so does the athlete. Yesteryear’s athlete could not sustain in today’s game, they went the same way as the dinosaur. There is another topic in it’s own right, today’s athlete vs yesteryear’s athlete. How would they stack up in today’s game. I beg to differ. The athletes of yester year in my opinion were much tougher. Singletary, Butkus, etc. Those guys brought and took a beating. The qbs if you look at them wrong today its over. I watched replays of old Raiders’ game where I personally thought Biletnikoff was dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Turk Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Often wondered the same thing. On the pro side ot would force teams to spend more time preparing for varius options and less time preparing for specific things. On the con side it would prevent them from getting into a rhythm... I guess it could even go so far as some games it might be 50/50 down to some games one of them might not even play depending on what the matchup is like...in those games i would think they should have an advantage simce the defense has spent time preparing for both even though they are only facing one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdand12 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 On 7/20/2018 at 2:14 AM, Thurman#1 said: Do you mean on the field at the same time? Or do you mean as a closer as you say at one point? Sure, there could be a closer type guy to play a few downs per game. Or both guys at once every once in a while, as an interesting gimmick play. It would give defenses more to prepare for, make things harder on opposing DCs. But the bottom line is that it would be a gimmick for a few plays a game, because you want your most dangerous, effective guy on the field all the time. Reports are Jackson ran a 4.34 40 in a private workout. Be interesting to see him set as a WR on the left side, run a jet sweep right and have an option to run or pass. That would put tremendous pressure on one side of the D. It will be really interesting to see what happens with Baltimore. I expect to see Lamar Jackson a few plays a game. And then if he turns out to be better than Flacco, to entirely replace him. Thoughtful response ! I suppose Baltimore will be the team to watch. If is going to happen it would happen there. Packages. Bills did a little of that with EJM actually. and it was not as horrid as some are feeling. Not everyone gets a Franchise QB. simple as getting a leftie and a right handed QB might be enough.. : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Brown Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 On 7/21/2018 at 3:32 PM, Chandler#81 said: Age old adage; “If you have a quarterback controversy, you don’t have a quarterback” There was a lot of controversy between who should start for the Chargers in 2004 (Rivers or Brees). There were a lot of 49ers fans calling for Young to start over Montana in the late 80's. Same goes for Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre. That's all I could come up with, but that saying is generally true. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prickly Pete Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 On 7/19/2018 at 3:33 AM, Tipster19 said: I watched the NFL over the years (40+) evolve in so many ways. Some good, some not so good. Before parity there were dynasties, before specialists there were 3-4 down players, which leads me to speculate if the time is near where there will be teams employing a multi QB offense. I have been feeling like that the last few years and thinking that there is only a handful of premiere QBs playing in today’s game, especially since Manning retired. While the majority of today’s QBs are better athletes they still don’t have marquis attraction. Michael Vick really propelled the modern day athletic QB and it has grown even more the last few years imo. It’s firmly a part of today’s game and is here to stay. Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson just might be the next player to make another turning point in today’s game. It won’t surprise me one bit if the Ravens’ start using him this year in a relief role. Flacco won’t like it but that’s too bad, Baltimore is actually the perfect scenario for an experimental evolution of the QB position, kind of like a perfect storm type of situation, underwhelming the last few years, drafting a thrilling electrifying athletic QB who is far from being a finished product and a very underwhelming offense led by an Cutleresque type veteran in Flacco who has appeared to be just punching a clock. If Harbaugh (a former ST Coach) can find any kind of success by using an unorthodox offense then it won’t surprise me if other teams/franchises starts considering utilizing a “closer type” QB. Just saying... I think having a RB that threw 5 times a game (maybe even more in some games) could be worked out, be a great weapon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfan89 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 The modern NFL offense is streamlined into a single QB. The QB is the fulcrum of the offense. Even a team with a "game manager" has all of their offense based off of their QB's strengths or weaknesses. Having a second QB that is a great athlete like Lamar Jackson come in and do a few trick plays might work for 3-5 plays a game. Trick plays help keep a defense honest and once in awhile, you can pull off a massive gain. But I don't see an offense that regularly switches QB's near a 50/50 split working nor do I see an offense with 2 QB's on the field at the same time working consistently. Not saying it can't be done but it just doesn't seem like from what we know about the NFL and how it is currently structured that an offensive gameplan with multiple QB's would makes sense other than for a few trick plays. Think about how hard it is for an NFL offense to get 1 good QB now try to find 2 of those guys. 35 minutes ago, Doc Brown said: There was a lot of controversy between who should start for the Chargers in 2004 (Rivers or Brees). There were a lot of 49ers fans calling for Young to start over Montana in the late 80's. Same goes for Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre. That's all I could come up with, but that saying is generally true. There are 2 types of QB controversies. The first being a rookie or young QB vs. an established veteran starter. In that case, you can have a good QB situation because you are deciding between your future and your present. However the other type of QB controversy is almost never successful and that's between two veteran QB's, odds are if you have two older QB's on the roster competing your QB situation isn't very healthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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