At this level mobility has been a crutch, look at all those times Book took off running before going through his progressions, all that did was shrink the field for the defense
We’ve had countless mobile QBs over the years, the only one where it worked out was Brady Quinn because he was a passer first and would stay in the pocket. Having Brady really opened up the offense because the whole field had to be defended because of his arm, but he also could run for 1st downs when needed.
With all the Kelly mobile QBs, most cant throw, so the offense becomes unbalanced and we have to run the zone read gimmick to try to come up with a run game, its a flawed strategy, but works when we have a talent advantage, but weve seen what happens when we dont
i understand that this strategy has been successful the past 5 years, but im tired of having no shot against elite teams
Those elite teams have essentially built the death stars in terms of roster, we have to have an elite QB that is a jedi knight to take them on