the success of black quarterbacks is the read option. Last year d coordinators didn't know how to defend it, other than to bring a safety down, sometimes both to contain the running game.
You see its a numbers game. With a drop back qb on running plays its 11 vs 10 favoring the defense, because the qb doesn't block or anything, now teams have to worry about biting on the play action fake which is why I don't think it will die out any time soon.
With the read option its 10 vs 11 favoring the offense. The defense leaves a defender unblocked, so he is basically out of the play, the qb and rb are both a threat to running the ball, there is the mesh period, both the qb and rb have the ball for a nanosecond where the unblocked defender is read on whether he is going to go after the rb or the qb, and the qb decides what to do in this split second.
Then you have play action off of that, and wide receivers have like 5 to 10 yards of separation, its easy for them to complete passes. Despite this, Rg3 had the least amount of passes over 15 yards which is pathetic. You don't set up the run to set up the short pass. Ive never seen him thread the needle like a real qb should do.
Locker, Ponder, Tannehill, all guys that RAN the read option in college and could run it now, aren't running it, and would have put up better numbers if they did run it last year. Locker with Johnson in the read option would be unstoppable.
Cam Newton does take more shots down the field, look at his td to int ratio. is it really that impressive? with 56 or 57 percent completion ratio. Josh Freeman, doesn't run the option, he has stunk and regressed, which is what all of these black quarterbacks will do once defenses can defend it better. Oh yeah, and Michael Vick, no option, he sucked. A WHITE qb won the Superbowl last year. The Ravens stopped Kaepernick.
Kirk Cousins had a 101.6 passer rating, without the read option.
Can it be stopped? eventually. Monte Kiffin was the first to stop it I believe, the original version. Contained the read option at Tenn vs UF with Tebow. The only problem was Tebow could just run typical running plays out of shotgun like a halfback, and they won the game. Its called the scrape exchange, but teams like Oregon came up with new wrinkles to get around this. Its a cat and mouse game. Eventually the cat gets the mouse.
Plus, you want your franchise qbs to be there for over 10 years. The average rb career is 3.5 years. Even the good ones tend to decline around 30. So even if this is succssful, they will have to learn to run a more traditional offense.
so there is no conspiracy to make black quarterbacks "great", defensive backs can hardly cover as it is, give them something new and leave them one on one with no over the top help with an all black dline confused and they are screwed. Still with all of this help they dink and dunk.
Despite what people say about Tebow, for the time he was used as a qb, he had the most throws over 20 yards, and the completion percentage is low for those, and the most passing situations for 3rd and long, another thing that will lower completion percentage, so now we are told he can't throw. Give him an offense like rg3 and let him dink and dunk and he succeeds.
White qbs do dink and dunk, but they thread the needle and throw down field quite a bit. Theres only like 3 top targeted receivers that get close to half of their yards after the catch, thats Wes Welker, Percy Harvin and Randall Cobb, so qbs are throwing deep.
so if you think Rg3 throwing screen to the left, screen to the right, middle screen with read option runs in between and then running play action off of the read option for a 14 yard completion to Garcon who takes it for a total of 88 yards is impressive, continue to think that. Usually its a play action pass to the tight end for a 10 yard gain or something, but every now and then you get a highlight play, and then its shown over and over and over and over and over and over and over and you believe this is what this guy does routinely.
as far as White qbs coming out, we have guys like AJ McCaron and Aaron Murray who can star in this league. Then we have guys that went into back up situations who will be ready in a few years. Mike Glennon etc. Let those guys sit a year or two. Its what qbs used to do and they can only benefit from it. Then when this read option fad dies out we have experience White qbs to fill the void.
and if you just take a moment to look at college football, who is winning championships? White quarterbacks, despite the read option being bigger than ever in college last year, AJ McCarron won, although a good deal of White guys doing great running the spread option. I think one black in the past however many years, which was Cam Newton, who had a hell of a o coordinator. The rest of the guys are just putting up numbers that look good on paper.