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Speed_Kills
the pure pocket passer is going away
look at all the dynamic QBs and you ones coming out
Lawrence
Ehlinger
Fields
Current young stars in Dak, Maholmes, Watson, Herbert, Burrows
You need an athletic QB these days that can make things happen IMO
I think the other thing working against Goff is he's not a great pocket passer. I think after 5 years if his ceiling was Ryan then he's just not there. He simply is not great or very good. He's just ok <shrug>
One thing I found odd today? Did you guys actually hear Velma saying during the game that Goff is not good from the pocket and that's not where he wants to be? I was thinking huh?
I can see it. I think the fact that he doesn't run much has been misconstrued as him being a pocket passer. But, he doesn't often seem comfortable from "the pocket". Of course, what one considers a pocket is important to this conversation. I think of a drop back, pocket passer as a QB that manuevers within the pocket, creates time, senses pressure, makes reads at the line pre and post snap, goes through progressions, etc.
Which all may be antiquated...or at least currently phased out. Brady and Brees would seem to fit the definition though and they're both still successful. But as much as I've questioned Brady as the GOAT, his year in TB just goes to show how much a QB is involved in the protection aspects of the passing game.
In 7 games, Brady has been sacked 8 times in 268 pass attempts for a 2.9% sack rate. Last year, in 7 games and basically the same amount of attempts, Winston was sacked 28 times in 263 attempts (10.6%). Three to four times the sack rate is massive and it seems that in less than one year, the problem was solved by having a QB who was better at the mental things..
