NFL

You can win with a running qb, but only to a certain point. I’m sure some team will eventually win the Super Bowl with a qb who scrambles all the time, but until that happens, you’ll get guys like Kaepernick who topped out as a conference champ and had a short shelf life. I remember he and RGIII went off in the same year and were dubbed “the future of the NFL” and neither really sustained success. RG 3 got several years of paychecks tho, so good for him.

What can further complicate the running qb debate are negative racial stereotypes with seemingly a majority of the running types being black. It’s funny, I was thinking about qbs who could run who had sustained years long success and were within sight of a Super Bowl and Steve McNair comes to mind. However, he was great as a passer too. If a couple plays were different, he very easily could have won the Super Bowl in 1999. Of course, that’s 24 years ago now (and damn, I’m getting old lol)