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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ick-on-running-quarterbacks-i-started-it-all/
delusions of grander perhaps?
delusions of grander perhaps?
Vick says He started this running QB sh!t
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He ain't wrong though. Defensive coordinators used to believe that in the worst possible case scenario they'd have to designate a player to watch the QB every once in a while. Then it had to be a LB. Then it had to be a freak athlete. Then they had to draft guys just for it. Then they had to redesign their entire defense just for one game. Then they had to save a spot on their roster for running backs and WRs as their scout team QBs.
Then people other than Vick started taking off outchea
Dude made it happen. Changed the game. Now all of a sudden offensive coordinators don't like pocket passers as much because it means that they'll be looking at 11 defenders instead of 10. Gotta give Vick his props. Him taking off and styling on dudes was the NFL's equivalent to the introduction of the 3pt line.
Let that man cook.
Then people other than Vick started taking off outchea
Dude made it happen. Changed the game. Now all of a sudden offensive coordinators don't like pocket passers as much because it means that they'll be looking at 11 defenders instead of 10. Gotta give Vick his props. Him taking off and styling on dudes was the NFL's equivalent to the introduction of the 3pt line.
Let that man cook.
I mean there's been running QBs before that were great - Tarkenton, Cunningham, Young, McNabb, etc. I think it might be true that Mike Vick made teams more cognizant of building a team around a mobile QB rather than just stumbling onto one fortuitously.
Cunningham just scrambled. when vick came in the designed the offense around him running. that led to the read option era.
Yeah. Outside of MAYBE Young, guys weren't scrambling and destroying teams basically solo within a complex offense - and you can't say Young was ever in the same category because he was surrounded by talent.
A lot of scrambling QBs in the past would simply take off on you from time to time. With Vick, you had to treat every single down like he'd go 50 on you.
Young was even harder to cover because not only could he burn you with his feet, but he was highly intelligent and could torch you with his arm. Vick could never put it all together. Blame Reeves for not grooming him properly.
Vick's best receiver for the majority of his career was Crumpler
Young was literally surrounded by Hall of Famers. The fact that Vick's best tools were his feet and his arm were what led to that offense fundamentally changing how scrambling QBs are used today. Necessity being the mother of invention and all that good stuff.
I do agree with you though.
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He sure as hell revolutionized Madden
The number of PS2 controllers I broke playing against nikkas that used to pick the Falcons in '04
The number of PS2 controllers I broke playing against nikkas that used to pick the Falcons in '04
My nikka wants his just due. Too bad he killed hella dogs so everyone hates him.