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This is GREAT and must read article for anyone that's ever been interested in what it takes to be a QB in the NFL. It has alot of interesting information on why the position is so hard to play and master. Here's a little taste:


"Try this: 'Hey, it's second-and-5, we're in Tiger, they just played Cover 3, so let's go Flank Right 2-Jet Z-Sail F-Drive. Tiger is a personnel group. Flank Right is the formation. 2-Jet is the protection. Z-Sail and F-Drive are two route combinations. And that is the simplest play, and formation, I could call: A two-receiver route and [another] two-receiver route, and the first one I said, you wanna start your eyes there. Or the play could end in the word 'alert,' which means if we get a certain look, be alert to audible to a specific play that we memorized during the week. Now, are they in nickel? Are they treating this as three wides or are they staying in base?

Oh, they're matching, say, Richard Sherman on [Charles] Clay ... you need to be aware of that. So you've got a pre-snap read, then a drop read and a set read. On your drop, you're reading something -- you have a primary receiver, or a primary route combination -- then once your back foot hits and you don't throw the No. 1 read, then you're into your set read, and now you're getting through a progression: Ding ding ding ding ding. Meanwhile somebody's trying to hold you up and clothesline you. And you have to do all this in maybe two seconds."

"Let's say a play just ended -- say Doug Baldwin just made a big catch," Wilson says. "The next thing I'm looking at is, I call it the 'shot clock' -- how much time? Forty seconds on the [play] clock? Thirty? What's the situation? Is it first-down-and-10 now? Is it third-and-3? Then I'm checking out the defensive personnel -- who's coming in, who's coming out? -- and then doing the same for our offensive personnel. You want to know who your guys are, who's the best player for that particular play, who may get open that play ... what the matchups are. And you also want to think about and analyze and visualize what they may do on defense. If you don't like the play, you can check out of it. You can change it. You try to put your team in the best position possible. You try to figure out what the front is and what the defense is doing. A lot of times, it's a pre-snap read. Sometimes, it's the front. Sometimes, it's where guys are lined up, their body position, whatever that may be. And sometimes, just as soon as you snap it, you figure out what they're doing.

http://www.nfl.com/qb2016
 
yeah I read that...was a good read...they talk about how many different things the qb is responsible for in his head pre and post snap

and what they leave out is the fact that tannehill for example is in his 3rd different offense in 5 years...you know how hard that is to apply and we even applying full no huddle out the gate with this qb first year in a new offense

it's a feather in that kids cap...he's smart as hell and has a ton of football intelligence

unlike others he's not 5th year in a system although many on this board will look for 5th year system results from the qb this year...they want pump fakes etc despite new route combinations and a new offense...things that take time and game reps vs certain looks

and college football is really setting the qb back these days...those gimmick and neutered offenses are destroying the game if you ask me...makes it almost unwatchable
 
This is GREAT and must read article for anyone that's ever been interested in what it takes to be a QB in the NFL. It has alot of interesting information on why the position is so hard to play and master. Here's a little taste:








http://www.nfl.com/qb2016

I posted this in the Tannehill thread as I didn't want to start another Tannehill thread.
 
Hated Dilfer as a quarterback, but I do like him as an analyst:

"The biggest challenge these guys face is that the life of the quarterback is overwhelming today," Dilfer says. "The attention, the scrutiny, the video evidence ... I don't care how good you are, somebody out there has evidence that you didn't do something as well as they think you should have. There's All-22 Film available, and people are posting things on social media, and it's impossible to avoid it -- and whatever you do, it's never good enough. There are few that it doesn't overwhelm."
 
yeah I read that...was a good read...they talk about how many different things the qb is responsible for in his head pre and post snap

and what they leave out is the fact that tannehill for example is in his 3rd different offense in 5 years...you know how hard that is to apply and we even applying full no huddle out the gate with this qb first year in a new offense

it's a feather in that kids cap...he's smart as hell and has a ton of football intelligence

unlike others he's not 5th year in a system although many on this board will look for 5th year system results from the qb this year...they want pump fakes etc despite new route combinations and a new offense...things that take time and game reps vs certain looks

and college football is really setting the qb back these days...those gimmick and neutered offenses are destroying the game if you ask me...makes it almost unwatchable

FSU-Ole Miss was my favorite game because the lack of rotating in oversized RBs for an actual QB. The 3 yards and a cloud of dust with NO chance at play action is unbearable.


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yeah I read that...was a good read...they talk about how many different things the qb is responsible for in his head pre and post snap

and what they leave out is the fact that tannehill for example is in his 3rd different offense in 5 years...you know how hard that is to apply and we even applying full no huddle out the gate with this qb first year in a new offense

it's a feather in that kids cap...he's smart as hell and has a ton of football intelligence

unlike others he's not 5th year in a system although many on this board will look for 5th year system results from the qb this year...they want pump fakes etc despite new route combinations and a new offense...things that take time and game reps vs certain looks

and college football is really setting the qb back these days...those gimmick and neutered offenses are destroying the game if you ask me...makes it almost unwatchable

Its probably similar to learning Spanish then the next year the coach is like "this year we're gonna be communicating in Japanese, here's your study guide for that ****"
 
FSU-Ole Miss was my favorite game because the lack of rotating in oversized RBs for an actual QB. The 3 yards and a cloud of dust with NO chance at play action is unbearable.


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yeah they bring in these oversized can't throw the rock qbs and run essentially power with them to gain 3 yards

it's unbearable and doesn't transfer to the pro game
 
yeah I read that...was a good read...they talk about how many different things the qb is responsible for in his head pre and post snap

and what they leave out is the fact that tannehill for example is in his 3rd different offense in 5 years...you know how hard that is to apply and we even applying full no huddle out the gate with this qb first year in a new offense

it's a feather in that kids cap...he's smart as hell and has a ton of football intelligence

unlike others he's not 5th year in a system although many on this board will look for 5th year system results from the qb this year...they want pump fakes etc despite new route combinations and a new offense...things that take time and game reps vs certain looks

and college football is really setting the qb back these days...those gimmick and neutered offenses are destroying the game if you ask me...makes it almost unwatchable

My beloved big ten has started turning into this too a little bit. Known as the smash mouth conference, we're starting to add that gimmick crap and I hate it.

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Its probably similar to learning Spanish then the next year the coach is like "this year we're gonna be communicating in Japanese, here's your study guide for that ****"

I was thinking it was like you performing your job a specific way, then a new company buys it out and the management installs a completely new system of running things. Then you have to do it again and again.
 
That was an excellent read! Really adds some perspective when giving thought to how much every QB has on their plate. It actually makes me respect RT even more... considering you have to process all this information and make the right decision in seconds while getting blasted by monster defensive players when you have a weak O-Line. Great stuff.
 
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yeah I read that...was a good read...they talk about how many different things the qb is responsible for in his head pre and post snap

and what they leave out is the fact that tannehill for example is in his 3rd different offense in 5 years...you know how hard that is to apply and we even applying full no huddle out the gate with this qb first year in a new offense

it's a feather in that kids cap...he's smart as hell and has a ton of football intelligence

unlike others he's not 5th year in a system although many on this board will look for 5th year system results from the qb this year...they want pump fakes etc despite new route combinations and a new offense...things that take time and game reps vs certain looks

and college football is really setting the qb back these days...those gimmick and neutered offenses are destroying the game if you ask me...makes it almost unwatchable

Its probably similar to learning Spanish then the next year the coach is like "this year we're gonna be communicating in Japanese, here's your study guide for that ****"

except it's: here is your study guide, you have 4 weeks to be completely fluent. And even better, it's not even a real language, it's a made up language designed to show the world how f*$@ing smart the coach is (in most cases).
 
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