Colt, Tim, Sam, and any Other Spread Qb are Doomed

Like everybody who can say the word “spread offense”, I actually was looking at how to stop it and/or why it worked so well. And with my findings i stumbled upon this true fact: since the spread offense’s inception into the american football vernacular, no matter what form it took, the quarterbacks who maestro it rarely, if ever see top level success.
As in they don’t do jack in the pros, or sam or steven for tha matter either. Just look at all the great pro QBs in the league now. Well ok alot of the greats played before the ball dropped in New York but the spread was still run by Hawaii and Florida and a slew of other, but lesser known schools. Now take a look at the QBs who ran those Gator teams. Wuerfel got a heisman out of it, but the best thing he got was a nice job at Fox Sports Atlantic!!! Clearly an upgrade. But what is the main reason for such glamourous crash outs to players who put up great numbers?

Lets break it down to the two teams who in the past 10 years who’s coaches fed their families by the spread offense. Texas Tech and Hawaii. Boy do you guys ruin some chances. Kliff Kingsbury, B.J. Simmons and most notably Grahm Harrell (sorry if I mispell)
each of these guys have thrown for over 4,000 yards but are now selling cars off of I-10 probably. i for the life of me could never ever figure out why they never got drafted. They usually had more yards and TDs than the top picks but I just couldnt wrap my head around why they didnt get picked up. My young mind thought that if you had more TDs and yards you were a better quarterback. I mean how dumb could i be. Don’t worry Red Raider fans there is another team that consistently lets its QBs deceive you into thinking they should have a great, atleast any, pro career.

Rainbow Warriors….you D*bags broke my heart when you practically set Tim Chang up for failure. You knew that pro teams didn’t take QBs who ran the spread. But you ran it anyway. thus he is now no where to be seen or heard from. I honestly don’t know happened to they guy who threw for more yards in Div 1-A ball than anyone else. Im also guessing that unless you are related to Tim Chang, you don’t either. Colt Brennan, take note, because you’re about to be parking you car next to Tim’s in the next few years. But why is the spread so dangerous in the high school and college ranks but the QBs who run them don’t make it to the top flight?

The thing about the spread is it doesn’t take a genious to find an open man. QBs just sit back and throw to the first or second read thats open. its full of quick slants and hitches and a guy who just takes of down the field. but thats about it. If you consider yourself a top Qb and you cant complete a pass to 1 out of 5 guys, you need o consider yourse;f delusional because you suck….bad. And the thing is that if the first guy isn’t open and the second guy isn’t either, most of the QBs take off running or are sacked or just throw the ball away. very few QBs hit the 3rd or fourth option. but its easy to do that because windows are open for alot longer. think about the spread in HS and CFB.

The players are students first. and you have DBs and LBs who have lectures and labs and a slew of other things school related before and after practice. so it’s film study is kind of hard for the whole unit. You may have 1 or 2 guys who have the free time to study film but that’s it. And in college they’re either about to finish school all together or they don’t have the best of grades and/or social life. So that leaves alot of oppertunities come game time for the QB to just pick the defence apart. That luxury isn’t afforded so much in the pros. which is why those QBs get either picked a whole lot or beat down. Probably both.

The thing as well with the success of the spread in lower levels of football is experience varying from team to team. In HS you have the possibility of an 18 yeard old going up against a guy who just left jr high, or may be in junior high. So you have exponentially huge mismatches. Same for college; being that you possibly have an 18 year-old DB against a 22/23 year old WR. Throw in other factors like the crowd size, atheletic abilty, and game magnitude and for the offense you have a recipe for mass yardage. That doesn’t happen in the pros.

With the rules in the NFL as they are today, more teams are switching to the 3-4 scheme to make coverage a group project. so you have corners who don’t HAVE to be shut down because you cant touch the WRs until they have the ball pretty much. so zones are a DBs best friend and an inexperienced QBs worse nightmare. Every DB is smart and just as fast as your receiver. Add to the fact that the game is faster and your 6secs to throw just went down to three. And its not like before when the opposing DB is worried about if he has a pop quiz on monday. All the defense thinks about is how to stop you. The longer you’re in the league the more you get to know everybody and EVERYBODY gets to know you. And if you didnt get reading defenses, and quick reads down when you were younger, you’re going to regret it when your’re older.

The thing with the names I’ve mentioned in the tite is that they don’t hit the 3rd or fourth option, unless third is a dump to the RB. they havent had too. Tebow is about as accurate with his left arm as he is his right foot. And that doesn;t get the Gators beat too bad if at all. But in the pros that will get him beat. Because just as scouts are watching, so are the wolves; and with those guys’ paychecks depending on them making dog poo out of QBs in general. they’ll take a free ”rookie QB” gift card. So college coaches take heed: If you REALLY want your QB to succeed in football, teach him how to throw to more than just his old dog WR and look for his other options. or make sure there’s enough room in the budget to hire him as a QB coach…or towel boy.