TEXAS-OU game thread 2023

[dukesteer]

I am not trying to be compatible either. Your original post was that you did not like QE because he was not a dual threat and you thought that was the trait of successful QB’s in college.

I pointed out that almost all, if not all, QB’s of NC teams were NOT runners theat QBs. Faced with these facts you changed the reason of your QE criticism from “not a running threat” to he has “poor pocket awareness”. This is strictly an opinion not based on data.

There has been no evidence to date that Murphy is as good a runner as QE let alone a better runner. I do agree that you have a right to your opinions and I was simply pointing out that is what they are and not based on data.

To me there is a distinction between pocket passers who can run, and pocket passers who don’t represent much of a threat to tuck and run. I would put Tua and Bennett in the former category, and Ewers in the latter. I would probably also put Mac Jones and Murphy in the former category, although to be fair, I really don’t know about Murphy. I’m not saying that any of these players are “running quarterbacks.” It’s about the ability to make something happen when the play breaks down. To me, this threat is missing in Ewers’ game.

Manning might be the closest of all of them to being a dual threat quarterback. I’m not saying that he is a running quarterback (!), but based on what we have heard, he may be more of a runner than the aforementioned players.

 

[moondog_LFZ]

True that Thompson was a pretty good runner, but for some reason I always gave Malik that credit too. Guess we’ll see Sat.

Arch is the best running quarterback we have.