arm strength is a bit overrated when evaluating QB
no way am i comparing purdy to both brady and montana but for most those two are the 2 best QB in NFL history and neither had a strong arm for their time … heck just over the last 20+ years a QB like brees also didn’t have a strong arm either especially the latter portion of his career yet he still put up monster passing stats and can be considered a top 4-5 QB of this era
i bet for a coach like shanahan he’d rather have a QB who can process and can anticipate well while in the pocket and throw accurate footballs to the skilled position players that shanahan schemes open in his offense
hey if you have a strong arm and are mobile then even better … although it’s been noted in the last few weeks that purdy has gone off script on some of the positive plays he does make which shanahan isn’t a huge fan of but so far what purdy does outweighs any of the negatives when he does something off script in this scheme
i mean there is a reason shanahan back in 2012 is rumored to have preferred cousins over griffin even though the latter was the #2 overall pick and had all the physical tools that scouts drool over … once griffin sustained all those injuries he just wasn’t a good enough pure passing QB to compensate for his physical skills diminishing
arm strength is a bit overrated when evaluating QB
no way am i comparing purdy to both brady and montana but for most those two are the 2 best QB in NFL history and neither had a strong arm for their time … heck just over the last 20+ years a QB like brees also didn’t have a strong arm either especially the latter portion of his career yet he still put up monster passing stats and can be considered a top 4-5 QB of this era
i bet for a coach like shanahan he’d rather have a QB who can process and can anticipate well while in the pocket and throw accurate footballs to the skilled position players that shanahan schemes open in his offense
hey if you have a strong arm and are mobile then even better … although it’s been noted in the last few weeks that purdy has gone off script on some of the positive plays he does make which shanahan isn’t a huge fan of but so far what purdy does outweighs any of the negatives when he does something off script in this scheme
i mean there is a reason shanahan back in 2012 is rumored to have preferred cousins over griffin even though the latter was the #2 overall pick and had all the physical tools that scouts drool over … once griffin sustained all those injuries he just wasn’t a good enough pure passing QB to compensate for his physical skills diminishing