Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
Originally posted by TheGore49er:
Yup. Rivers had the ugliest release I've ever seen and he had a great career. If a QB has a good pocket presence, can read a defense, and has a good arm, mechanics are then overated.
Unfortunately the pocket presence and general feel for the game are intangibles that are hard to evaluate in college where many of these QBs play against inferior competition on a regular basis. You can't see that part of their game until they get in the NFL and face real pressure. Presence and feel for the game were probably Montana's greatest assets since he wasn't big and didn't have a great arm. Since it's something that's so hard to evaluate in college teams have to make their picks off of metrics which only tell part of the story. That's why there are so many busts. Many great arms have died in the NFL because the head wasn't there to control them.
Ya pocket presence is very key if you want to be a really good QB. It's hard to think of any that were really great and didn't have that ability.
And like you said, scouting it is nearly impossible and you really won't know what u got until that QB suits up. If it's not good, most likely you got a bust, bc pocket presence is also very hard to teach.