We used to have Kordel and later ARE... but afterwards we really moved away from the concept... Super athletic ex QBs that aren’t going to cut it as pure nfl qbs are often moved to Another position.. like safety, Wr or RB... why dont teams draft these guys and develop them as third down triple threat players? In this ultra aggressive offense nfl one would think a utility player like that would be invaluable...
Why isn’t the Slash role used more in this NFL?
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Some teams still use it somewhat just have to have the athletes to do it.
rats use one full time.
Saints use one at backup QB.
that is just off the top of my head./ I think there is just a lack of capable basically.
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Same old tired offensive playbooks passed down the coaching trees called by old crusty Offensive Coordinators..."Cause we've always done it this way"
I'll go to my grave saying that Kordell would have been a Hall of Famer if he had stuck to his role as "Slash".
I'll go to my grave saying that Kordell would have been a Hall of Famer if he had stuck to his role as "Slash".
100 percent on board with this !
In this line of thinking, what I don't see a lot of is just new wrinkles to the offense being brought out. Nobody runs the full playbook to start the year, but they rep certain plays at practice and roll them out as the season evolves. I just don't see a lot of that with this team this year or last. I don't recall this being an issue in 18, but I could just not remember. That was 2 years and a lot of beer ago.
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Kordell in his prime was every bit as hard to bring down as Lamar is now, the problem is they kept telling him not to run. Who knows what he would have done if they had just let him go apeshit on the opposing defenses, maybe he gets broken in half, maybe he gets multiple mvp's. We'll never know, he couldn't ever get past his 2nd read, but if he had kept running in his first 4 to 5 years, he never would have needed to.
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It was two fold Kordell being stubborn as he saw money at the QB position (his words) and the coaching staff trying to mold him into a QB. Hard to know how much Kordell was pushing the coach in that direction though, I presume he did it significantly.
If the Steelers changed the offense to fit Kordell, and not the other way around, we could have won a SB with him.
Im not even saying maje a slash type a starting qb... just have a 3rd down back who is also a wideout and a QB... there are always 5th -7th round types tgat are tweeners... they pkayed QB in college but aren’t going to have that position in the pros... im saying draft one and teach them a little of each position... a utility guy who keeps the d guessing
Very close. Kordell was a QB in college. Kordell wanted no part of the "slash" role, forcing Cower to try and mold him into a pro QB.
He was stubborn and fixed on playing full time QB, even predicting he would be a hall of famer at the position.
Had he stayed in the slash role he'd been a household name. He was already making TV commercials. He screwed himself.
Chan Galey understood what he had in Kordell. The others tried to make him a traditional pocket passer. Mike Mularkey understood how to use him properly
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I laughed out loud at this.
everyone has read this site and NO ONE wants to be called slash.....would you want to be called half of slashsteel's name? of course not
