Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Sanchez repeatedly calls him a "point guard." Sanchez is not even worth to carry his pads out to the practice field.
Herbstreet compares him to Stetson Bennett and calls him a "system QB" over and over.
Stetson Bennett = 5'11" 190 lbs.
Brock Purdy = 6'1" 215 lbs.
I mean come on. WTF? He's 25 lbs. heavier and 2 inches taller. Much bigger, stronger, stronger arm, reads the field better, more accurate, faster running around and buying time off schedule. Brock Purdy does not equal Stetson Bennett! Unbelievalble.
Point guard is the new code word for a QB that does not score himself....I guess making ultra mobile QBs combo guards. So any QB that does not scramble would be a point guard.
I have no problem with the System QB label.... They called the best QBs to ever play the game System QBs.
Having said that, the term does not really mean much these days.....every offense is now a system.... There is no QBs that are not system QBs in the NFL. Everybody runs some variation of a timing offense.
In the old days, it a system QB was a QB who worked on a schedule that simplified reads based on time. So a system QB read a part of the field, and a traditional QB read the entire field. It was used as a slight to say a QB's arm could not attack the whole field, or he was too slow to process the entire field.
In the old days, System QBs stretched the field sideline to sideline to keep players hot as time ticked off, traditional QB stretched the field vertically, players got depth down the field as time ticked off. Traditional QBs needed speed at WR and System QBs needed Size. At one time it was rare to have two 6 foot WRs like Rice and John Taylor.
It does not mean ANY thing today....every one works off a timing offense, every one runs skill players across the field, it is just talking heads talking.
