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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 4882888, member: 1414"] I agree on Mahomes. He that special something. Montana had it too. Pat has the same 40 time as Mac Jones (who isn't as slow as people think). Brady's 40 time was glacial. I can't find the video, but last week Brady was talking with Steve Young about QB play and all these athletic plays after the snap. He essentially said that's not good QB play. Those QBs should have seen that the play that was called was wrong given the defense and changed the play. Instead they run the play, everyone is covered and they pull something off with a scramble and throw. You can probably find it with a search. It was fascinating for me, because I think he's partly right and partly wrong. Obviously, I know [B]way less[/B] than him. Brady and Manning were unmatched at pre-snap recognition and adjustment. They were so good at it, that defenses adjusted. Initially it was things like dropping DEs into coverage and sending ILBs to rush. But in the last 5-6 years defense has, like basketball, gone more positionless. These fast 225-235 pound hybrid safety/LBs (Pats alone have 4 such guys) make it much, much harder to make accurate pre-snap reads and adjustments. The D can disguise things much more effectively. So we we've seen the rise of QBs who can adjust to the defense after the snap, and that requires (a) greater mobility to buy time (b) accuracy off platform and (c) arm strength. The arm strength isn't so much for deep throws, as those likely need to be on platform anyway, but for those cross body cross the field throws. Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, Hurts, are all examples. Even Purdy is pretty decent at it. There is still a role for what Tom talked about, no doubt, but I think it takes more than that now. [/QUOTE]

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