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October 31, 2024 • 11 mins
Looking across the league lots of teams have endured a bit of a controversy in their clubhouses regarding their most important position on the field, being the quarterback position. Attention has been drawn to the QB position specifically relating to many young quarterbacks that are on active rosters; not suffering from an injury but blatantly not doing too well in regards to the production aspect of things. Young, favorable, and talented QBs have made great headway into the league but haven't quite stepped into their full potential as an NFL QB. Quarterbacks like Bryce Young, Justin Fields, Zach Wilson, and recently Anthony Richardson have all been benched in relations to their poor performance the first opening weeks of the season. Looking to the outliers like C.J. Stroud and even rookie Jayden Daniels making a statement many pose the question, does the NFL have a quarterback development issue?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're the Sean Salisbury Show continued, I'm just gonna I'm
gonna roll through some some some names here for you, Sean.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Okay can I I don't know if this is true.
Uh oh, but Jeremy J Jay Dim Underscore nineteen ninety
two on Twitter is a buddy of the show. I
mean tweets us says apparently.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Now.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't know if this is true because he split
lol on the end, but I'm assuming because he put
a specific number that apparently Sharp spent over one hundred
and thirty thousand.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
On those teeth. WHA, what damn is that true? Let
me let me say, is that is that true? Dude?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I mean, man, those are some choppers. For one hundred
and thirty grand, that's some teeth. I mean, you're paying
some coin for me.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Sh Shannon Sharp indeed said on his Club Shasha podcast
that he spent over one hundred and thirty thousand dollars
on his veneer and he brushes his teeth ten times
a day.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Damn.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
I don't mind you brushing your teeth ten times a game.
I like a good hygiene and being fresh too.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
One hundred and thirty thousand dollars worth of veneers and
implants in his mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Man, that's a lot of that's a lot of that's
a lot of real estate right there, with one hundred
and thirty thousand worth. There's your there's there's your down
payment on your new crib.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Wow. Yeah, a lot of it, man.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
And that's a that's a that's a lot of that's
a lot of money for some teeth. But good, good
on him. If you can afford to sling a buck
thirty on him, go for it.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's just stupid. Whoa, it's it. Don't get his wallet?

Speaker 1 (01:35):
No, not like stupid as him, dumb like stupid, like
that's just stupid money.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, oh yeah, that dentist is a do it all right?
My god? Man?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
A buck a buck thirty? Yes, yeah, man, that's incredible.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
It's insane. All right, good on him. I love it.
Good on him. I ain't hating him on it, no, man.
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Uh with this question I have for you, Sean, if
the NFL has a QUB development problem, I'm just gonna
roll some names here. Anthony Richardson twenty two years old,
he's been benched. Bryce Young, twenty three years old. He's
been benched. Trey Lance twenty four barely started, benched. Justin
Fields twenty five years old. He has been benched. Will
Levis twenty five years old. He's been benched. Zach Wilson

(02:18):
twenty five benched, Mac Jones twenty six years old, benched,
Kenny Pickett twenty six years old, benched. In those names,
Anthony Richardson, Bryce Young are a part in Will Levis.
We're all a part of the same draft class as c. J.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Stroud and Hendon Hooker too. And but also you know,
came off the injury, off the the injury, and you're
talking about first round picks anyway. Yeah, so what's your question.
Do we have a problem?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Is there? Okay?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
But then also let me play Devil's advocate real quick
for you. Caleb Williams starter, Jaden Daniels starter, c J.
Stroud starter, Brock Purty starter, Bo Nicks starter, Trevor Lawrence starter,
Jordan Love, Jalen Hurts, Justin Herbert to a tongue of
ilo at, Joe Burrow, Kyle Murray, Lamar Jackson, all those guys,
Drake May. All those guys are twenty seven years and younger.

(03:06):
Now you look at guys that have Trevor Lawrence has
just been has pretty much stayed the same, dipped a
little bit, gone up a little bit. Dal don't donjer
Dal Jones are But with the names that I started,
all of those guys are very young, high draft picks
and they're all on the bench. Does the NFL have

(03:30):
a QB development.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
From how many of them are on the bench because
they have a star in front of him. Are on
the bench because of poor performance.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Mac Jones' poor performance, Zach Wilson poor performance. Can he
pick at poor performance? Will Levis is not very good.
Justin Fields you can about their ability. We're talking about
their performance while playing quarterback in the NFL. Justin Fields
is the outlier. I thought he's actually gotten better and
played pretty well. But he's got on the bench and
he's on his second team in three years. Trey Lance

(03:59):
the time that you I've seen him in he's terrible.
I'm gonna call it like it is. He's terrible. Bryce
Young poor performance, and Anthony's been terrible as well. Out
of me and Anthony Richardson is terrible. Dude couldn't hit
the braw side of a barn.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Okay, So I'd have to go through each one again,
but for the most part. Now, last year, Zach Wilson,
their team was pretty good. They had some players, but
they're struggling this year even with how many of those
teams that we named these quarterbacks are on that are
benched that were in that class or on good teams. Okay,

(04:37):
that's one I've said on this many and there's some
veterans that are like this too. They better have great
players around him to validate why you pick them, and
they're good. There's only it's it's a rare one. If
they rare one that you can go on a team
as a young player on a bad team and you
are the reason you turn at Stroud's partames not the

(04:59):
only reason, but a big.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Part of it.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, those are the two that I was going to
bring it back to you right.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
And look at the way was playing and Caleb woodde
the Chicago Bears may end up missing the playoffs because
of the boneheaded play.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
At the end of the game.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah, because they'll marry because they are playing good football.
So let's we're trying to We can't bury the Caleb
Williams has done well, He's not as the numbers aren't
as good as Jayden Daniels, but all four of those. Again,
Drake may looks to have some skills, right, So do
we have a quarterback development problem? Of course we do
because we throw guys in because you draft him high
and all the money involved in your team's not good

(05:33):
and part of the development problems fans as well, And
I'm gonna tell you why you run out there, for instance,
Michael Pennix, who's not a first rounder, but go ahead,
I take it back. First for top ten pick. Was
it's supposed to be until late right? Some people thought
you cold get him after fifteen? Well, Atlanta gets him.
He's backing up. If Kirk Cousins goes three games and
doesn't have a good and they lose three in a row,

(05:55):
what or even what in the opener if he threws
three picks? What you heard people say after they got
beating the opener? Uh, there's people that want pinnicks. So fans,
what happened? What happened here? The tom Savages first half?
Oh god? People people were pining for Watson before but
wanted him to play. So fans said, because if you
draft a guy that high and you got to start

(06:16):
in front of him, like Cousins are like a veteran who,
you know, not an Aaron Rodgers, but a good veteran
that you're eventually going to give way to. Right, what
happens if he throws three picks in the opener? What's
everybody in the world say, start to play the rookie,
Give the rookie a shot. Happens all the time. Look
what they did to Malik Willis in Tennessee. Put him
in there when their quarterback wasn't playing well. He played awful.

(06:36):
They didn't even want to throw it, and then he
lost some confidence and they weren't very good on offense.
They they put him in the motor pool and sent
him away. I mean, you know, got rid of him,
and they go get will Levis, who's having the same
some of the similar struggles.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
And look what Willis has done now, didn't get.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Frustrated, went to a better team that coaches it better,
and he's come off the bench and played damn good
football in place with Jordan Love. So the development coaching matters,
players commitment off season what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
And we also at a young age, what do these
guys do?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
How many times do you watch guys and I can
go there and I train them and watch guys train
them that everything we do has got to be what
mahomes and the off schedule guys do. It starts in
high school. These guys want to put a highlight reel
of off schedule stuff. So when you actually ask them
to make a play under center or from the gun
in rhythm, some can't do it.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
So they're just it's play and then seven on.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Seven wall great for reps, also sucks for mechanics and performance.
If you want a quarterback to lose if a coach
isn't paying attention, because what do they they're getting paid.
They're not usually the high school coach that coaches seven
on seven for their own high school, right, So what
do they do? They go out there, I watch them
drop back, hold the ball, Holy the buzzer goes off.

(07:45):
They're climbing the pocket instead of you want to talk
about screwing your mechanics up for them.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
There's some good seven on side.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
I'm not saying the coaches aren't good, but their job
they want to win the seven on seven league.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
You're not coaching mechanics. So what do they do? Then
they come back to you get ready.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
For the fall and say, why is that ball dropping
while you hold one hand? Because playmaking, I'm not seven
out seven can be great, but it's got to be
used properly. Right, Yeah, if I teach you, if you have,
all you teach is hitting home runs during batting practice
and then you got to go play during the season.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
What's going to happen now.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Mechanics are going to struggle and you got to make
up for three months of lost time. So it'd be
nice if they were working in unison. So it does
start there, and then in college they're not working on mechanics.
You're working on I just want a guy gives me
a chance to win, so and we love these dual
threat quarterbacks, but we're spending so much time teaching all
that other stuff that we forgot the very basics that
a guy like Anthony richards And lost his job because

(08:34):
he can't perform hit a shallow crosser on the move
where the guy can run and score instead of behind him,
or hits off his back shoulder, or mac Jones maybe
physically limited but doesn't have all those receivers he had there,
goes to New England, has a good rookie year. They
protect him then when they have to rely on him
more to do it, and he doesn't have great players
around him.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Mac Jones is just an average player.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
So they've all shown flashes of something special, but it's sustaining.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
It's a hard position. So develop me.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yes, we don't have the time. We won't let him develop.
And every now and then you get a guy who's
ready Jaden Daniels, c J.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Stroud.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Most of them are like the guys you mentioned, most
rookies in their time and first and second year guys
that were forced into playing on crappy ass teams.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
They try to do too much.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
They get to hear with Sam Darnold another case in point,
couldn't play I mean a lick in the Jets and flashes,
but then you move him on. He's on his third
team and a fourth team. He was in San Francisco
as well, gets with the coach, he's comfortable, Quitch trying
to be a hero, got good players and guess what
he's got him in a chance to be a playoff
team and five games into the season was the MVP

(09:36):
in the league. So yeah, we got to development problem.
It's part player. They don't put enough time in on
the Macada basic stuff. It's part coaching and how they
all these leagues that they go where you're just throwing
for reps and every rep is not a good rep.
That's one thing, Hey get more reps in. Well, if
you're giving bad reps in and we're coaching bad reps,
guess what happens. That's what the mind's gonna remember, and
the body and the mechanics are going to do bad reps.

(09:59):
Because you have success dropping out our armslot once in
a while doesn't mean that's the right thing to do.
You still got to coach the proper mechanics without being robotic, right,
So all those things then you get and when you
get to the C season, no coaches keaching mechanics. We're
putting game plans and we have time for you to
go fix your throwing motion in September. So yeah, we
got a problem. And guys, as long as you're winning,

(10:21):
they don't fix the negative.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
We're winning. I'll live with it.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
If Anthony Richardson was a sixty five percent completion guy
even by tapping out his ass will be playing this week.
So yeah, we have a development problem because we force
him in quickly. But I'm okay with it, because guess
what if the rookie, if the veterans making rookie playing
like a rookie, play the rookie, and if he's not
mentally tough to handle failure, he wasn't going to be
worth the powder it takes to blow him to helen
back anyway, and it all comes together and then you'll

(10:46):
get the rare ones. The most of them are supposed
to play like the list you just read. Most aren't
supposed to play like C. J. Stroud and Jayden and
Daniels in their first two years. Those are the outliers.
Manning didn't, Elway didn't. They had flashes, They struggled. Aikman
got his ass handed to him three Super Bowls later.
Guy's pretty good. Yeah, coaching does matter. Development does matter.
But you can develop on the field quicker too. But

(11:07):
you have to have a mentality and a coaching staff.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
That gets it right. You just do.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Let's continue this discussion on the quarterback development problem in
the NFL seven one, three, two, one two five, seven ninety. Well,
also get out to your calls next in Sports Talk
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