Article on history of Mariota-like QBs

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  1. RavensShallBurn

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    There's definitely high risk with Mariota, but to throw in names like Tebow, VY, Locker, and Quincy ****ing Carter is an absolute disgrace. And the author should be castrated for that.

    There are two factors ignored by the author when comparing him to other mobile QBs... Smarts and passion. Very few on that list have those two traits... Wilson does. And that may be it. Tebow had both, but he just didn't have the ability whatsoever.

    Not saying that having smarts and passion is going to automatically make you great, but it gives you an advantage over athletically gifted bums who don't care at all.

    Mariota will put the work in and give it his all. If he busts, it will be simply because he doesn't have the ability or due to injury. He's not going to be a VY.
     
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  2. CheeseheadTitan

    CheeseheadTitan Pro Bowler Tip Jar Donor

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    Actually, his grammar is much improved from the way it was a few years ago. Now I am able to understand what he is trying to say, while a few years ago I really had no idea most of the time.

    He has been working on it though.....
     
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  3. SuperMariota

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    The other thing he has to top both of those off is something it seems all the great quarterbacks in this league have today. They are focused and driven. There is a motor inside of them that continues to push them to bigger and greater things. You can just sense From Peyton Manning to Tom Brady to Aaron Rodgers to Andrew Luck to Drew Brees that it's all business. They handle themselves that way on the practice and game field. There is direction there. Marcus again, has this same intangible. He is focused and he is driven. You've seen it in all his press conferences to the OTA's to everything he has done to this point. His teammates are picking up on that. And that can only mean good things for the team.

    The team could use a lil bit of direction.
     
  4. rekirts

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    I can't see Wisenhunt gone unless we lose 13 games or more again. He signed a 5 year contract, and has a "project" QB. Mariota atleast buys him another season if we suck that much. Not that I think we will.
     
  5. JRayStay

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    His premise is flawed from the standpoint that he believes (apparently) that Marcus was as run-oriented as most of the rest of his comparos.
    And that's not the case. MM's pass att to run att ratio at Oregon was in the realm of 4:1.
    Tebow, Maziel, Kaep and RGIII were all in the neighborhood of 2:1, with most exceeding that.
    Marcus had more yards passing than all of them in 3 years, even Kaep, RGIII and Young etc., that played all 4 years of their eligibility.

    When you start with a flawed premise, it's easy to come to an erroneous conclusion.
     
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  6. 520

    520 2020 GOAT CHAMP from 3-7 to champ

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    Yo be honest we do not know if mm will be "run first" since Oregon's o is so bang bang boom. This year will be the first he's asked to make deep drop backs and read the whole field a majority of the time. How do we know he wont decide to run if his first read isn't open since at Oregon he only made it boast his first read a handful of times..and no I don't count reading an end on an option as making an NFL read...sorry.
     
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  7. JRayStay

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    If he was reading a DE, it was a zone-read run play.
    He made way more pre and post snap LB and secondary reads than most pundits realize.
     
  8. 520

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    Mmhmm.
     
  9. 520

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    I did hear the Oregon h.c. said the new qb had a better spring passing than mariota ever had.....not great for us.
     
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  10. SuperMariota

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    Lockie is NOT Mariota. Nor will he ever be.
     
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