Sitting RGIII--good football move?

Well, but that's part of the package with him, just like it is with Michael Vick and some other guys. You don't put him out there to just stand in the pocket and fire the ball downfield. Plenty of other guys can do that as well or better. What he gives you that others don't is the mobility dimension. If you're not going to use that, it significantly reduces his value, it seems.

 

Of course he's going to say he agrees with it. What assistant would say otherwise?

 

Whitlock weighs in:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10121701/nfl-rg-iii-victim-own-swagger

 

This isn't the Big 12.
Or the league circa the time of Cunningham.
Every team - even the shittiest - has speed out the rectum.
A mobile quarterback who can do only that isn't extraordinary in this epoch of NFL offense.

 

Ok, then. Why all the hype over the Griffins and Kaepernicks and Wilsons of the world?

 

Passing fad, like hula hoops.
Disco dancing, pet rocks,
and the Wildcat.

 

Brady, Elway, Bradshaw, Montana, Staubach, Aikman, Roethlisberger, E. Manning, Plunkett, Starr and Griese. They have 28 Super Bowl Rings. They are also QBs that don't run. Some can scramble, some can move to avoid a sack or buy time but they aren't running QBs. Which is different than being a 'mobile QB'

Throw in Flacco, Rogers, Brees, Favre, P.Manning, Warner, Simms, McMahon, Stabler, Unitas, Namath

It's not as if some running QBs are successful in the NFL, NO RUNNING QBS ARE SUCCESSFUL IN THE NFL.

 

Steve Young says hello.

 

Mobility is a good thing in a QB. It's been an asset going back to the days of Fran Tarkenton and Roger Staubach. It helps a good passer buy time for receivers to get open, not to mention the obvious of avoiding sacks.

Making your quarterback an integral part of your running game is a good way to wind up with your backup QB playing a significant portion of the season.

 

See above. Steve Young was a mobile quarterback, not a running quarterback. His career high in rushing attempts in a season was 76 -- less than five per game. And how many were designed runs?

Last season, Griffin ran the ball 120 times. This season, through 13 games, he has run it 86 times -- and people are saying he's limited his running. Kaepernick had 63 rushing attempts last season and only started seven games. He has 78 through 13 games this season. Like Griffin, he's cut back on that part of his game, but, like Griffin, he's also been noticeably less effective.

The trick is to use that mobility while limiting the exposure to risk that comes with a lot of designed runs, especially those of the sort that are likely to wind up with a hard hit.