Just thot Youngs qb comments
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/12/02/steve-young-says-late-blooming-colt-mccoy-could-be-more-than-a-stopgap-for-redskins/?tid=pm_sports_pop
By Scott Allen – Wash Post
“The good news is that I think that Jay Gruden is one of the guys that understands quarterback play in this league,” Young said. “That’s unusual. There’s not 32 great places for quarterbacks in the league. My opinion is, since Mike [Shanahan] got there, and now Jay, both of them are great spots for quarterbacks. The guys on the roster…they gotta go to school. Some are ahead of others in the master’s program and I think the capitulation that Robert needs is that, my game is a play-making game and I need to transition it to the true job in the NFL, which has been proven to me over many years, and was proved to me individually, that the job is to deliver the ball from the pocket, to own the pocket, use the data and manage it and perfect it, and have reflexive recall and go win a championship from there. So that’s a process for everybody. Ninety-nine percent of the people that come into the league never get there. Colt can develop into that kind of guy, and so can Robert.”
Young, who repeatedly compared learning the quarterback position to going to graduate school, recalled his three years in San Francisco when Shanahan served as the 49ers’ offensive coordinator while defending his previous comments about Griffin’s work ethic.
“He was ‘Mr. Let’s Go Over It One More Time,’” Young said of Shanahan. “I’m like, ‘Mike, I can’t go over it one more time. And we’d go over it one more time, and one more time, and one more time. It drove me crazy. Naturally, I didn’t want to go over it one more time. A lot of me was saying, ‘Look, I don’t need to do this. I can get an ‘A’ on this test and not do this because I can run around. The work I’m talking about is this graduate level work that four or five guys have mastered in the league today. There’s four or five human beings on Earth that have done this work and gotten there. So it’s not a cut. People want to say, ‘Oh, he’s cutting Robert.’ No, I want Robert [to succeed]. These are my guys. The guys that can run around are my guys. I know that it’s extra hard for them because they can already move around. Peyton Manning couldn’t move around; he had to do this. Tom Brady’s not going anywhere; he has to do this. Robert? Aaron Rodgers? Andrew Luck? Those guys can move around, and so it takes some humility. … People took it as a cut and I didn’t mean it as a cut I meant it as an inspiration for him to go do that work so he can be great.” … see link
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