UF Fin Kat said:just using stats doesn't make it true. watching him play over his career makes it true. he looks to run when the first read isn't there. that's a run-first quarterback. and jacobs isn't a dual threat. you're way off.
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Ok... I am going to take your personal perspective on things rather than using actual facts and the opinions of people who do this for a living.
You can disparage stats all you want, and there are gaps that we don't have the right stats for yet... but they don't lie. And run-first, one-read QBs don't throw for 3000 yards.
At some point people are going to have to pick one way to deride Young... is he bad because he was in a "pass-happy offense" or is he bad because he "ran first".
Trick question. The answer is "neither". People have preconcieved notions of him and mold what they see to fit their opinion, rather than the other way around.
As to Jacobs not being a dual threat... almost all scouts agree that he is a dual threat... that does not mean he was a scrambling qb... he wasn't. It means he runs a 4.55 forty and has the talent to be a threat. Every scouting report I have read on him says about the same thing.