the best ability is availability and guess who is NEVER available? ya boy sam bradford
enfyte i want your input on this argument i had with someone on the jets forum yesterday. i've studied the top 4 QBs this year and have put in a lot of work into marcus mariota because he's a serious jets target and i seriously like what i see. i'd have no problem taking him at 6. but something that keeps bothering me is that people just assume he's an extremely intelligent QB because he's nice
some guy kept saying that marcus mariota is light years more intelligent in terms of football IQ compared to RG3 but I just didn't see how ANYONE can say that with confidence, yet i feel like most people say that. i found countless scouting reports on RG3 pre-draft that said he had an extremely high football IQ and made adjustments at the line and could read defenses, which i concurred with when i watched him 3 years. people don't understand that hindsight is 20/20 and that now it's easy to say that RG3 doesn't have a high football IQ, but what people said pre-draft about RG3 are the same they are saying about mariota. they both ran a spread offense and didn't have to make difficult reads. mariota never called a single play from the huddle he said once ont he rich eisen podcast and he didn't have to go through difficult reads
maybe i'm just frustrated over nothing and i do like mariota a lot, but i just don't understand how people can blindly say he's more intelligent than a lot of these QBs that have done the exact same stuff he has in college
You shouldn't really consider how smart he is as opposed to how willing he is to learn. One thing you can't say about Mariota is that he isn't a hard worker and that he will take the time to learn whatever teams playbook he gets drafted to inside and out. Jamarcus had all the talent in the world and no willingness to work to his full potential. A person with a hard working attitude will be able to carve out a role no matter how bad they are, but in Mariota's case he will develop the ability to do a lot of these things because he won't stop trying until he gets it