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Your theory is that pocket passers are the only successful QB's in the pro game & mobile QB's give the ball away too much. Let's test your theory using the stats for the 2 players in question: Gives the ball away too much? Powell - 12 TDs, 9 picks in 352 attempts, 1 every 28. Ford 29 TDs, 19 picks in 534 attempts, 1 every 39. Can't throw? Powell - Avg completion 7.8, yards 2752, Comp 69% . Ford Avg 8.7, 4651 yards. (Take away Fords extra year & he's still over 4000), Comp 67% . Rushing is is for running backs? Powell - Avg rush 7.4 for 257. Ford 9.1 for 1129. Powell gives the ball away more often, he throws for fewer yards on average, and the running isn't even close. Ford has a 2% lower completion percentage but beats Powell on every other stat. Tre has been the more successful QB so far.

I coached kids in Grade 10 & that's all they did. Couldn't read a defense. So, one read. It ain't open... run. We didn't win many games.

He would not be the first and it may be that or UIC.

“Officially” but it’s today lol

Is FA open now? I thought it ope ed in a week?

I still want Woodmansey Edmonton Elks agree to terms with Canadian offensive lineman Coulter Woodmansey: sources dangit

A great start to the morning that's for sure.

Wow Kyle ,are you lurking on here by chance? Some excellent signings. Now get McManis ,we cooking.

Broxton and Stan...Randolph at guard..with Eli centering...Wallace to take over Eli role and grow...whats not to like there...BO i sure is salivating at that prospect

Very interesting after we re-signed Bryant. Broxton is the best LT in the league, I can’t imagine he’ll be the guy to change positions.

Stan’s future replacement wonder who plays RT

Broxton of the Leos.....Nield and Moxey.....great signings so far

Broxton, Moxey and Nield sign with the Bombers, we’re not messing around Broxton becomes the highest paid American OL in the league

Third Down saying Ford should/could land in the Peg......Says we're his best bet/fit to further his playing career now and into the future??Well that cinches it we'll certainly give him a hard pass

For the love of gawd I'm hoping we change that signature this year. Watching three DL be stood up at the line with no disruptions at all while the QB runs through his reads with ease putting lots of pressure on the DB's as the receivers find the soft part of our zone coverage is quite frustrating to watch.

so will we get a full trailer tonight or next week (we're getting Devil Wears Prada 2 tonight probably during the Grammys)

We have never had a beast like Ceresna to turn loose and if you don't think Ceresna has taken his share of double teams i'm not sure what to tell you. He is probably one of the most double teamed guys in the league.

All teams do is change the attack angle of the ends to contain, and have a LBer spy the QB and if he can't read the hole in the defence or can't make the throw it's game over. Sure the odd time a great athlete like Ford might break a tackle for first down or more but over the course of the game it will be 2 and out....a LOT of 2 and out.

Yeah eventually Defenses will scheme to take your mobility out of the game. As a change of pace guy there will be some value forsure. But as a back-up your 1 play away from starting. Starters need to be able to play from the pocket.

Smart coaches don't play sandlot. What you are describing is sandlot. It doesn't work in the pro game. You absolutely have to be able to pass out of the pocket or you are doomed as a QB. That is why Ford sucked so hard last year. Teams simply spied him and he was done because he could not make them pay for that. It is easy to shut down a running QB, even one as good as Ford, if they don't possess the ability to pass well out of the pocket. No offensive coordinator in the world can make that better. If you can't threaten from the pocket you are done as a QB. There is no ands, ifs. or buts. You start rolling out every play, teams will catch onto that and it is very easy to defend half a field. You start tucking and running every 2nd play they spy you and/or run blitz and you are done. You absolutely have to be competent out of the pocket. We saw the exact same thing happen with Streveler. They simply gave no option to run and dared him to beat them with his arm. He could not. Exactly what teams did to Ford as well.

Why would Ceresna want to play on our DL? His job is rushing the QB while other DL's take the blocks. That's not what we do.

It's not sandlot. It's not high school. It's not standing in the pocket going through your reads either. Highly mobile QB's can be highly effective. They can use their legs while they learn how to read defences. Trying to turn them into drop-back passers is the reason a lot of them fail & turn the ball over. Ford struggled with a drop-back passing playbook. Smart coaches change their offences to match the players' strengths. If you're not willing to do that, then don't pick a mobile QB in the first place.

Yea...I agree....having talent is only half the battle. Ford is a dynamic athlete who struggles to play with a playbook. He is a guy that could probably be converted to another position and excel but as a QB he just doesn't have it. Not at the pro level anyway, I sure hope we don't sign him as a QB.

Which I was outstanding at btw, stats unbelievable on both sides of the ball and then came the pads and the real football and all of sudden my playmaking ‘changed’ drastically.

I'm not even sure he realizes what he has described is pick up football.