Turns out Jackson can play...

[SojournerSteel]

The Ravens Front Office also regularly signs top to 2nd level free agents & makes trades....Our front office does neither

Great ob. Their forays are few and far between. The MP gambit will last them another 10-15 years.

 

[slashsteel]

The Ravens Front Office also regularly signs top to 2nd level free agents & makes trades....Our front office does neither

We have signed top free agents and made trades. Pretty regularly. Have to disagree here.

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[ChampYINZ]

He's ugly as the day is long, but he CAN throw a football, and that's his WEAKER skill set.

The Rats are gonna be tough.

98 yards passing last night, league has caught up with the smoke and mirrors. Passing looked like ****.

 

[paperclip]

lots of Ravens fans on this site. weird.

 

[wig]

if they had the rpo back in 97-98 Kordell would of been as good as jackson looks right now

Everyone knows I love me some Kordell Stewart, but his biggest flaw (aside from not being very good at reading defenses... Ok so his SECOND biggest flaw was that the moment he broke pocket and started running, there would be no passing. Jim Carroll figured out that once Stewart started running, there was no longer any chance of a pass play, so in a playoff game against the Pats (pre-cheating, no asterisk) which the Steelers were heavily favored to win it came down to 7-6 and a Steelers squeaky victory.

Why? Because Carroll had a LB spy Stewart and the moment he started scrambling, the secondary gave up coverage and converged and Stewart was made pretty much ineffective. Ironically, the Pats did the OPPOSITE of what most teams had done with Stewart. They WANTED him to scramble.

Once the league realized that Stewart could not (would not) throw on the run, the writing was on the wall and an RPO would not be effective with him. He's GONNA R. There will be no P.

 

[SteelerSask2]

To me the recipe for this type of QB has been and always will be to take away the easy read, mix the blitz with the cover and dedicate a spy. I cannot think of any better reason to have drafted Devin Bush then to accomplish the latter. He isn't significantly slower than Jackson, he has good feet and he is a pretty sure tackler.