Marcus Mariota = Vince Young 2.0?

[NYC Rebel]

He could certainly rely on Henry and manage that team to 9 or 10 wins.

Not sure why your going to so hard on Tannehill. He's a better QB than Mariota... period.

He takes hits in the pocket but he also will drive the ball downfield, hit WRs out their breaks and he's a significantly better redzone passer than Mariota.

He's still a high functional QB and a perfect QB for this team on offense given the circumstances.

I was a big Tannebhill fan. I also watched him play before me several times. Im telling you its a major flaw when the receivers youre not seeing on your tv screen are open but he locks onto one guy too long and checks for a second receiver when its too late.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

The option IS a gimmick and not sustainable in the NFL. Mariota isn’t/wasn’t a brilliant decision maker. Reading whether LBs are blitzing or dropping back into coverage after the snap doesn’t make you brilliant. It’s literally pee wee football QBs doing that this weekend..

You could have just said, "I don't have a clue what offense Oregon ran during Mariota's time there or how he functions within it" and saved yourself a ton of trouble. Oregon was recruiting plenty of high-regarded quarterbacks who never picked up their system. They running plays where Mariota was checking through four different options in the first three seconds despite virtually no pre-snap time to read defensive positioning.

Marcus Mariota at Oregon >>>>>>>>>>>> every other QB who has ever played their system. It was night and day. They had a long string of 4* recruits at QB who were supposed to be among the top five duel threats in the nation and they all kept washing out cause they couldn't do what Mariota did.

 

[Keengcong]

You could have just said, "I don't have a clue what offense Oregon ran during Mariota's time there or how he functions within it" and saved yourself a ton of trouble. Oregon was recruiting plenty of high-regarded quarterbacks who never picked up their system. They running plays where Mariota was checking through four different options in the first three seconds despite virtually no pre-snap time to read defensive positioning.

Marcus Mariota at Oregon >>>>>>>>>>>> every other QB who has ever played their system. It was night and day. They had a long string of 4* recruits at QB who were supposed to be among the top five duel threats in the nation and they all kept washing out cause they couldn't do what Mariota did.

Lol they were doing gimmick hurry up spread option bullshyt on a team that was loaded in a lower level Pac12. They were great during that time and he looked awesome in that system but what does that have to do with playing in the NFL?

The guy was not prepared to play a full rounded game. No other team in the history of the sport plays that frantic break neck speed. He has no idea how to play with poise.

The Titans coaching isn’t blameless maybe they could get him out in more bootlegs to let him use his legs and play in shotgun more so he can see the field more. But just being honest at this stage he is like a slower Mike Vick with way less throwing power. He can’t make pre snap reads and just flying by the seat of his pants hoping to find Delanie Walker open.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Lol they were doing gimmick hurry up spread option bullshyt on a team that was loaded in a lower level Pac12. They were great during that time and he looked awesome in that system but what does that have to do with playing in the NFL?

The guy was not prepared to play a full rounded game. No other team in the history of the sport plays that frantic break neck speed. He has no idea how to play with poise.

The Titans coaching isn’t blameless maybe they could get him out in more bootlegs to let him use his legs and play in shotgun more so he can see the field more. But just being honest at this stage he is like a slower Mike Vick with way less throwing power. He can’t make pre snap reads and just flying by the seat of his pants hoping to find Delanie Walker open.

Again, it's 2019, little late to call the spread option "gimmick". And comparing Mariota to Vick? You still keep exposing yourself.

USC and UCLA were beating Oregon in the recruiting rankings every year. Stanford and Cal beat Oregon some years too. And in 2014 especially Oregon had massive injury issues across the entire offense.....yet how'd that look against Florida State, who had FAR more talent on both ends of the field than Oregon did? The Ducks were not more loaded on offense than the teams they were beating, and after Chip left their coaching was ass too. Yet Mariota still kept them in the title hunt every year.

How'd Mariota do against non-Pac-12 teams?

42-25 win over Fresno State
35-17 win over #3 Kansas State in the Fiesta Bowl (as a freshman)
59-10 win over Virginia
59-14 win over Tennessee
30-7 win over Texas in the Alamo Bowl
46-27 win over Michigan State
59-20 win over #2 Florida State in the Rose Bowl
42-20 loss to #4 Ohio State in the NCG

Try and say the Pac-12 was weak when Oregon's offense was DOMINATING nearly every ACC, SEC, Big-12, and Big-10 squad they faced during Mariota's reign. The only loss was to Ohio State and that was after he lost his top 5 receivers and was having 3rd-down passes dropped left and right by guys who weren't even on the depth chart when the season started.