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There is a giant emphasis on having a big athletic quarterback, even though if you go back and look at Super Bowl winning QBs, almost none of them are like that. The QBs that win are more often than not pocket passers who make good decisions and can throw the ball downfield. Makes no sense why teams don’t build around QBs like that anymore. Daniel Jones for example is a terrible QB. Has been given 5 years to prove himself and hasn’t really improved at all since his rookie year. But he is athletic and can run, so he gets a chance.. again, makes absolutely no sense
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)