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Now Mariota's backups are the excuse?Trying my best to relay this, not perfect quoting but...
Jimmy Johnson was on the radio going off about how teams should only develop one QB at a time. He said people don't think about the in-season work that's put in. A young quarterback has to have contributors to the meeting room and to practices and maybe even the game plan. When there is more than one, team's are not discussing the finer points of the game in meetings and he wonders if there even is a capable QB testing the defense during the week.
After a bit, the host brought up Mariota and LaFleur and their struggles
He said, you want to fix that team? Sign two quarterbacks that are 36 37 years old. They will contribute in meetings and help him out (development) and they won't be quiet if the offense isn't performing well. They'll bring ideas.
what about if they have to play?
There's never a bad time to put a real field general on the field. If you think back to the classic QB, he's pointing before the snap, communicating....he's getting everyone in line to do things the right way. They might lose a game but they'll be better off the next week because he's been correcting players all game long.
Just plan on losing a game?
There isn't a coach in this league that can't gameplan for a savvy old QB. Their problem usually is asking the old guy to do what the young guy does and that won't happen. You got plays in your playbook that suit him, hopefully a running game, you can make it work.
Many have the Titans drafting a QB plus they had two veterans this year in Davis and Gabbert?
How well do those two know the game? Journeymen aren't always taught. You gotta be careful with them. They could travel team to team and just pick up the basics. I don't know those two but from here it looks like they aren't the type I'm looking for.
Draft?
No. Might as well trade Mariota then. If you're gonna have your QB coach teaching the offense to the rookie that means the coordinator is running around to the other 11 on the field and that's not enough time for Marcus.
Wow, I bet titans fans won't want to hear that
Ya know one more thing, let me put it another way. Gil Brandt pointed something out to me years ago. Not in drills but 11 on 11, when they're on the field, where are the backup QBs? That will tell you everything. Teams with the veteran QBs have them standing in the backfield discussing, teams with projects have them on the sidelines. Which is better for the starter? It's like a braintrust and it's empowering.
How does Vrabel do it? Do you know?
All the videos I saw had him behind the offense. That tells me he doesn't have that braintrust. I know where he comes from. Ever watch Brady in practice? He turns to the backup and comments on a play, backup is pointing...there's discussion. Why have Jimmy G and Cassel and so many QBs left the Patriots to perform well? They learned. Go to a Patriots practice, Belichick might be back there, McDaniels, there could be 7-8 guys. And another thing, that's the view. That's the look you want. Every coach would be on the field if they could, not on the sideline. See what he's seeing, discuss it.
Did you change things after hearing from Brandt?
Right away. Some of the best advice I ever got. That's even where I go when I want to talk to a team. I'm not standing on the sideline unless they make me. If the network sends me to get a background on a team, I want that view.
Do they?
Not really. I kind of miss it.
I admit, this is the first time I have seen this one used.
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