zoogs
Assistant Coach
I sort of agree about the two types, but not totally. Turner Gill was a very good passing QB, no? I don't think he quite fits the mold of say, your Darron Thomas or Pat White or Taylor Martinez. They go back to guys like Crouch or Lord, in my opinion. And then there's guys who are tall and bulky but still move around well, with varying degrees of 'well.' Tebow, Locker, Cam Newton, Vince, Pryor fall in that category in my opinion. Pryor being the freak of the bunch. I think Cody Green falls into this category, but obviously without the same success (so far).
Then there's the guys that are not exactly the 'bottled lightning' that Crouch or Lord or Denard Robinson are, but are quite athletic and quite accomplished runners, while being a guy you can tell is a quarterback by trade and not by virtue of athleticism that suits a system. I don't have memories of Gill or anything so you guys could be more correct on this, but that's the category he'd fall under. The modern archetype I am thinking of...Tyrod Taylor comes to mind. And it's the same mold that I think Carnes is cast in.
So there's three categories, and in Martinez, Carnes, and Green, we have one of each. Turner, I'm not sure where he goes, but I think Starling is in that Locker category. I'm inclined to say Turner is in the same category as Taylor, only better. I know, I know people won't like that. But many are pretty high on his passing skills, as well as his make-people miss, agility, athleticism, all that. I think he redshirts and ends up in a few years as sort of a Taylor clone, minus some of the weaknesses in his game that are sometimes overlooked. Sort of a 'Taylor as we imagine him to be.'
Then there's the guys that are not exactly the 'bottled lightning' that Crouch or Lord or Denard Robinson are, but are quite athletic and quite accomplished runners, while being a guy you can tell is a quarterback by trade and not by virtue of athleticism that suits a system. I don't have memories of Gill or anything so you guys could be more correct on this, but that's the category he'd fall under. The modern archetype I am thinking of...Tyrod Taylor comes to mind. And it's the same mold that I think Carnes is cast in.
So there's three categories, and in Martinez, Carnes, and Green, we have one of each. Turner, I'm not sure where he goes, but I think Starling is in that Locker category. I'm inclined to say Turner is in the same category as Taylor, only better. I know, I know people won't like that. But many are pretty high on his passing skills, as well as his make-people miss, agility, athleticism, all that. I think he redshirts and ends up in a few years as sort of a Taylor clone, minus some of the weaknesses in his game that are sometimes overlooked. Sort of a 'Taylor as we imagine him to be.'
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