JTG
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Totally disagree. In today's NFL, a QBs feet are very important and they can actually get a QB who struggles making reads another option to pick up positive yards. Arm strength, I'm going to also disagree. Years ago...you are correct. Now with how pass happy teams are you need to be one of two types of QBs - you need to be an assassin on the short/intermediate game. High completion percentage and constantly moving the chains, or you have to be able to step up and rip the ball into tight deep windows because every f***ing team plays in a nickel set now for a good portion of their defense.The two most overrated attributes for a QB are arm strength and 40 time. Unless a guy has an incredibly weak arm, arm strength is not a big deal and the list of big arms that have done nothing is incredibly long. The key to success in the NFL is timing and accuracy and those stem from being able to read a defense and proper throwing technique. Foremost, if a QB cannot see the field, he has zero chance to succeed in the NFL, which is where Fields lies. Fields is a turnover machine because he cannot see the field. That he's been able to put up some yardage stats is just a testament to how much easier "success" in the passing game comes in today's the NFL (which also highlights just how f-ing bad Matt Canada's offensive scheme was).
Rushing stats for a QB mean nothing. It's not the QBs job to be a running back, and if he's defaulting that much to running, it's likely because he struggles to process the field (again).
There are two things that will help any QB in Pittsburgh now - a great RB duo and a line that should be a top 5 unit in time.
Sometimes a QB is in the wrong system. Remember, Nagy was only fired last year and that offense was seen as every bit as bad as Canada's. Just like with Kenny, Fields was in a bad situation. Is Fields a franchise QB? Right now, no. He has super high end traits to develop though, and he showed in small spurts what he's capable of. Fields needed to sit. Chicago didn't have that luxury which is why I am so anti- taking QB's high in the draft if your team blows. The player has to be so insanely special to overcome that and those guys very rarely come out of the draft immediately ready to do that unless they are put in a system where they just have to do the things well they already do well. Coach-OC-QB group is so important.
Extremely disingenuous to drop Pickett's success at the feet of Jordan Addison as if Justin Fields didn't have one of the best WR rooms in college history his entire run at Ohio State.
Pickett had one of the worst pass-blocking OL in the league both years on top of the issues of Matt Canada's atrocious offensive scheme and play-calling. He did have an issue with happy feet but it only got worse because his trust in the OL was non-existent.
Pickett didn't have issues seeing the field. When given time and a pocket to step into, he looked good. When the play-calling became more aggressive in the fourth quarter, he looked good. The problem was not his lack of talent, but the failure of the coaching and the teambuilding around him.
I agree with this.