Originally posted by English:
Originally posted by Ark49er:
Originally posted by plummerfan:
Just when the 49ers are playing at their best the rise of LJ and the ravens look like a potential threat. I have never seen a QB play this well making it look easy. Ingram was a great addition. I hope they lose in the playoffs I hate the ravens
Yeah it's never been a QB in the NFL like Lamar Jackson. He's always the best athlete on the field no matter the opponent. His alien like speed, quickness, and movement scares the s**t out of grown men on top tier defenses. On top of that he's a good passer made to look great because of his fear factor.
This sort of comment appears every year or two. Until the guy has played 3 years or so in the NFL I dont see how you can make this assessment. Look at all the guys who blew the NFL apart in their first year. In the second year Defenses have caught up with them. What with that and the injuries to running qb's I think we should hold back on the deification for now.
The big difference with Lamar is there's only been one other QB used exclusively like this that I can recall - that was Tim Tebow. I know he's a polarizing guy but it was similar in that it was a wildcat offense. Lamar has better speed and quickness but it's essentially the same thing. The biggest difference is the Ravens embracing that kind of offense full force.
The Broncos always seemed extremely reluctant to it but it was the same sort of media frenzy over Tebow. I remember the NFL network did a whole thing with former QB's talking about Tebow, the next year he was replaced.
Not saying that's Lamar at all, just that it's a phenomenon just like Tebow was where people oooh and ahhh because they haven't seen it before and it's so foreign to the NFL no one knows how to stop it or him yet.
It's like Shanahan said in his presser talking about Cousins - "it's always harder when you don't have a lot of film on a guy, cause then you're just guessing at what they're good and bad at, but when you have a lot of tape on a guy you get a pretty good understanding of what they're good at and what they're not so good at."
That's Lamar. This is basically the first year of this offense.
It's not unstoppable. It's not easy, but nothing in football is easy.
It also remains to be seen as his career goes, how does his body react to the pounding he's going to take doing this over and over again.
Think about how we worry about QB hits. Lamar has been hit well over 200 times this year, he's ran it 176 times, been sacked 23 times and then there's QB hits he's taken on passes.
That's a lot of hits on a QB. It only takes one to have RGIII in the game.
