Posted on 12/24/2006 9:00:38 AM PST by Chi-townChief
Does Steve Nash have athleticism?
Lowered expectations time.
It would help if Vick had receivers who could actually catch the ball. One thing that hurt Vick is that in 2002 or so he lost fullback Bob Christian (suffered a career ending neck injury) who was a very effective blocker as well as runner. Falcons have never really had an effective running back who could also pick up that rushing LB or DE to block him before he gets to Vick.
I agree. What difference does color make? Just throw the ball, dang it!
Maybe Vince Young has a take on this.
All I know is that with Drew Brees as the Saint's starting QB no one misses Aaron Brooks.
I have to admit that most of the black quarterbacks who come to my mind ARE scramblers, or else option guys in college.
Notre Dame is getting two frosh qbs -- Demetrius Jones and Jimmy Clawson. Guess which one's the athletic one?
And then Tony Rice and Kevin McDougal were both option guys too, but Rick Mirer and Ron Powlus (ugh) were not.
Warren Moon of the Oilers comes to mind as an exception, and of course Brett Favre is a white guy who won't hesitate to run, although it's not pretty when he does.
I don't know, maybe we need a movie about this -- White Men Can't Scramble?
The guy I had in mind was Tarkenton; he had the same rap on him, some of it deserved, that he would take off too fast rather than wait for an open receiver. Then, when he got old and tired, they started praising him for learning how to stay in the pocket.
Well, in Michael Vick's case, he gets so much scrutiny because he has sex with random women and gives them a fake name. A really cheesy fake name.
Could be. His take is certainly, shall we say, interesting.
The problem I see with any team where their q-b is their main rusher is that they have no running game. With no running game the pressure on the q-b leads to sacks... black or white.
You definitely need the threat posed by a mobile q-b. Witness the Washington Redskins with Brunnel vs Campbell. But you don't want him running around in the backfield looking for a receiver and then taking off to risk life and limb..IMO.
Oh, wait a minute, Campbell is black.
Oh well, there goes that theory.
Course our O-line sucks.
You will see a couple of white QBs scrambling around tomorrow when the Eagles play Dallas ...
You hit the nail on the head: they are trying to put a racial spin on a pure sports story, which is so typical for leftist MSM outlets like Yahoo. In case you haven't been following it, the sports media has just as much of a political agenda as the news media and is dominated just as much by a left mindset. In fact, even the owners and executives of professional sports teams are predominantly left-leberal, perhaps more so as a group than their employee coaches and players.
Paging Rush Limbaugh!
/sarc.
Leni
heh...yeah...and his offensive line knows that too so they know where the q-b is "likely" to be and they can protect him. When he off running and scrambling around, he's on his own. The only white guy I knew that was a great scrambler was Tarkenton..and he never won "The Big One".
Roger Stauback wasn't bad but he had all the other skills to go with it.
Lame, race-based excuses for quarterbacks who make BAD decisions and who rely on their feet, not their arms and brains. Successful, championship caliber teams have a good quarterback and a good runningback, not a good-running quarterback.
"...You will see a couple of white QBs scrambling around tomorrow when the Eagles play Dallas ..."
One will be running for his life and the other will be running to keep the defense honest and off balance.
GO COWBOYS!!!!!
I always thought Kent Graham was lightskinned! /sarcasm
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