The New York Giants are releasing the veteran quarterback on Friday, the team announced. Jones' release comes four days after head coach Brian Daboll announced his benching ahead of Week 12's game versus the Buccaneers.
The Daniel Jones era in New York is now officially over.
I always figured that there are 32 starting QB jobs in the NFL at any time, but there are rarely more than 10 good QBs at any time. Most teams will have to make do with mediocre QB play and hope to hell their run game & defense are pretty good.
Which is crazy when you consider the sheer number of athletes in the world, there must be some draw to other sports, or reluctance to take on the QB role, that is creating a shortage.
Like theres’s got to be some up and coming cricket bowler in India who has a degree in finite number theory and an international chess rating who could easily throw spirals and learn to call games from the line of scrimmage, but he’s like “Nah, I don’t want to make ten times as much money.”
Concussions could be one thing. But I think there’s enough prestige & cachet in the QB position, not to mention salary potential, that concussion risks ought not to limit the candidate pool overly much.
Personally, I think there are some major factors:
Seems like there are comparatively few colleges that run pro-style offenses, so too many of rookie QBs only know how to succeed in pass-heavy offenses against inferior defenses, and can’t handle the transition to running the different scheme against opponents who are all pretty good.
Success in the QB position requires skill in an odd combination of areas: memory, pattern recognition, charisma, super fast decision making, ability to hit a moving target with a ball over a line of tall angry men out to hit you, enough ability to scramble to keep defenses honest, strong enough to take repeated painful blows & keep ticking.
I don’t think anything could realistically be done on the second point, but on the first one it would help if more colleges ran offensive schemes typical of what’s in the NFL.
Problem is, schemes in the NFL are great for situations where teams are closely matched. But college teams often have wide disparities in physical talent that can only be offset through creative schemes.
I always figured that there are 32 starting QB jobs in the NFL at any time, but there are rarely more than 10 good QBs at any time. Most teams will have to make do with mediocre QB play and hope to hell their run game & defense are pretty good.
Which is crazy when you consider the sheer number of athletes in the world, there must be some draw to other sports, or reluctance to take on the QB role, that is creating a shortage.
Like theres’s got to be some up and coming cricket bowler in India who has a degree in finite number theory and an international chess rating who could easily throw spirals and learn to call games from the line of scrimmage, but he’s like “Nah, I don’t want to make ten times as much money.”
Is it concussions?
Concussions could be one thing. But I think there’s enough prestige & cachet in the QB position, not to mention salary potential, that concussion risks ought not to limit the candidate pool overly much.
Personally, I think there are some major factors:
I don’t think anything could realistically be done on the second point, but on the first one it would help if more colleges ran offensive schemes typical of what’s in the NFL.
Problem is, schemes in the NFL are great for situations where teams are closely matched. But college teams often have wide disparities in physical talent that can only be offset through creative schemes.