Quote:
Originally Posted by thehef
All valid points. From the splitting hairs department  though, by the time Jackson takes his next snap, at least three whole NFL seasons will have taken place since that 14-2 season. In that time Jackson has missed the key part of the season twice in a row due to injuries, whereas Hurts a) took a team to within a minute of a championship just this past season, and b) has potential to improve (I don't think there's any consensus that Jackson is going to get better; IOW he's in his prime whereas Hurts probably hasn't reached his just yet).
That all said, it's by no means out of the realm of possibility that Hurts has seen his best year, where everything both in his control and out of it came together ('cept the last minute of the Super Bowl), and he'll be an average-at-best starter for a few years and then grab a baseball cap and clipboard; whereas Jackson may land in an ideal scenario, be injury- and drama-free, and thrive for several seasons. |
No argument from me here. But like with any of these running QBs, it's a risk. They don't have a long shelf life. QBs like Hurts, Jackson, Fields, Lance, all can have great success given the right gameplan. The RPO. I'd even add Daniel Jones to that list if they chose to use him that way.
As soon as the Bears started doing that, they started scoring a lot more. The problem with the RPO heavy gameplan is that you need good wideouts for when defenses sell out to stop the run. Right now Jalen Hurts has that along with a good TE.