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00:00But anyway, so ESPN put out a story and the reason I bring this up, it's the back. It's the
00:05Is I have this also this belief that you don't need to be a mobile quarterback
00:10It's a nice thing and i'm, okay
00:12Like i'm not mad at you if you can run I don't avoid like but out of my list of criteria
00:16It's probably like fifth or sixth
00:18But there's a story about the nfl and the running quarterback and the proliferation of the running quarterback
00:23and so i'm reading this and it's
00:26The average and it throws out an interesting statistic
00:30about
00:31the average amount of yards
00:33Per completion the average amount of yards per run and the average amount of yards per scramble
00:40And the most effective of those plays is not a completed pass and it's not a running back run. It's a scramble
00:46The average amount of yards on a quarterback scramble is greater than the average amount of yards on the average completed pass in the nfl
00:54so
00:55you know the the premise is is the scramble like just
00:58Basically winging it quarterback takes off the most effective play
01:02In the nfl and you have to be good at the other things to make the scramble even a threat, right?
01:07Because you're guarding against other things and then the scramble becomes
01:11the the best available option
01:14And so i'm reading about this and I read something that blew my mind
01:17I did not know this and in the world of what goes around comes around and now that there's a running quarterback
01:22in
01:241986
01:25Okay, lou holtz took over the new york jets. You know, what kind of offense he installed
01:31Did he go with a wishbone? He went with the option. He was running an option offense in the nfl
01:37Do you ever see a day?
01:39Now that we have basically licensed quarterbacks to run more
01:44That some team says eff it we're putting the option in and that they run it regularly because I think every once in a while
01:51A team will break it out
01:53But could you imagine a team that wants to run the option as an offense? No. Yeah as a play
02:00Once a game or once every few games
02:03When you see it, I love it because it harkens back to you know, college football
02:08You know yesteryear and it was a lot of fun to watch that stuff
02:11But it doesn't work in the nfl because teams are too quick defenses are too sophisticated
02:16They're not going to fall for the banana in the tailpipe trick
02:19And and when you do see it and it works, it's awesome
02:22And now it's almost used like it's misdirection
02:26it's like fake the reverse pitch it and that's the option, you know, or it's
02:31Uh, I I guess you might see it more often if you have somebody like lamar jackson. Yeah
02:37but I just it just got me kind of like thinking about
02:41and and lou holtz went three and eleven and
02:44Was off to I think he went to minnesota. I think he just had success at nc state
02:48But it just got me thinking about a team regularly running the option
02:52Which I think every once in a while breaks itself out whenever it does in the nfl like people go. Whoa
02:58run an old school option
03:00but
03:02um
03:03So i'm going to finish this i'm going to think about my whole running quarterback philosophy
03:06I just think it's kind of an overrated trait. Well
03:10I don't know if it's if it's overrated necessarily. Well, I guess I would say I agree
03:14It's a little overrated, but I think having a mobile quarterback, which is different than having a running quarterback
03:19I think having the mobility to maneuver through the pocket to buy yourself more time that is not overrated
03:25I think that might even be underrated
03:27um
03:28Because that that separates that that allows you to buy that extra time and to the point of offense better than defense
03:36Giving wide receivers a little bit more time to get open. They'll get open
03:42Well the ability to keep your head down field
03:45Move around in the pocket and not tuck the ball under like to be able to because when quarterbacks tuck it it's over usually
03:52But if you can keep the ball
03:54Ready to throw pull the trigger at any time while you're moving around in the pocket
03:58And and watching your receivers and not everybody can do that and that that to me
04:05Is that's not predicated on speed either. That's a lot of it's a lot of smarts
04:09It's knowing where the rush is coming from. You got to be brave as hell. Um
04:12But anyway, it just it's got me thinking