OUInsider - Owen Field

1. I'd say the best definition of a system QB is to look at tx tech. They've had about 6 different guys since 2000 all put up great stats, but i don't think any of them have ever done anything in the NFL. Harrell was the 3rd QB for GB last year, but never played. Whoever they ran out there was gonna do the exact same thing. I don't recall Paul Thompson, Nate Hybl or Rhett Bomar ever putting up eye popping stats.

2. No

3. Believe in him for what? To win a NC? Is that the only criteria he's judged by? If so, Peyton Manning shouldn't have been believed in either.

4. Yes. Unfortunately thats not how sports work. You cant have the best player in the country at every position.

Well Landry may decide to comeback next year and he'll have time to improve on calling audibles.If Landry would call some audible he might even throw for over 700 yds a game and for 7 touchdowns per game.By the way do you think the pros use this kind of system ?Does the system make him have the ability to throw all of those touchdowns?

Guy continues to smash OU records and we got people calling him a system QB seriously?

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Every QB is a system QB. If they have been recruited properly, they will fit the system that the HC and OC want to run.

Bradford is the victim of being the #1 draft pick. You go to a horrible team with no help around you. Landry is a great young man and team leader. He's also a great QB, but he is not yet in the same conversation with Bradford. He might be in another year, but today he would still be Bradford's backup.

The only thing I don't like about LJ is that he seems to panic when there is any pressure.
Listen; I couldn't do it. But I think a top rank QB at a national power should be better at it than he is.
He always seems to run away instead of stepping up into the pocket. At least he hasn't fumbled this year under pressure.
Maybe I don't know what to look for and you sure can't argue with his success.

He would be a system QB if he threw nothing but dink passes to Broyles, Stills and the backs who then ran through the opposition for all his yardage. You can't subtract from his performance just because he has two great receivers and another (Jaz) who only needs Broyles to graduate to get real appreciation.

When our right CB blitzed Doege, he blindly threw to the vacated area to which a receiver had come back. That completion was a system completion. Landry is going to keep getting better until he's 36 or so. Another couple of thousand pass attempts and his accuracy is going to be amazing.

Heupel is a mad mechanic building things in his garage. He wants to make a QB with his brain and the prototype pro QB body and talents. Landry may be his Norm Van Brocklin. If he eventually puts one of the smaller QBs (Thompson or Knight) out on the field, that guy will be his Josh Heupel. That ain't so bad.

Every QB plays in an offensive scheme or system if you want to use that term. People who use the term "system QB" are usually trying to detract from some kid. This is just dumb to think that every QB isn't a product of the scheme he plays in.

In case some haven't noticed, the NFL is gradually adopting the spread and no huddle offensive concepts that are so pervasive in the college game.

If any of you watched the Stanford/USC game last night, you would have seen Andrew Luck throw an interception that almost cost them the game. Luck is as prone to mistakes as other college QBs. In this instance he locked onto a receiver and never saw the CB ready to step up and catch the ball. It is just something that happens every once in a while to the best of them.

Are you calling me an idiot for asking a complicated question? I think this is a valid topic to discuss. If you don't want to partake in a discussion that doesn't involve pumping sunshine up you ass then just go away.

I've heard people accusing us of running system QBs all throughout the Stoops era.

Explain why none of these guys who broke all the records before them can't make it in the NFL. Sam not withstanding despite his QB rating.

Explain why none of them can be trusted to call their own plays. Did you see Luck staring in confusion to the sideline last night?

YAC are a qb's friend.

If our team is playing poorly do you really think: it's okay, Landry will put the team on his shoulders and get us over the hump?

LJ is usually very accurate, asside from the occasional bonehead play. But those come 50 pass attempts. He has NFL talent wrs. Litefooted TEs pass blocking well. An offense throwing 75% of the time. The formula of a system QB.

If any element of the system is off we are screwed.

This is not a knock. It's just an observation. And a fact.

And you can take off you crimson glasses and kiss my ass for calling me an idiot.

Nothing wrong with a little honesty around here.

I thought he was calling me an idiot.

But I'd say the chief reason neither Josh Heupel nor Jason White could play in the pros was simply pre-existing injuries.

Our other QBs have been:
Hybl - not physically up to pros' standards
Bomar - didn't complete our program
Thompson - a miracle he won a conference championship
Bradford - so far so good
Jones - he'll improve till he's 36

I'll go a little farther and say that if Kevin Wilson could win a championship with Paul Thompson, who became a QB a couple of weeks before the beginning of the season, I think he could have done it with Tommy Grady too. And that's the opposite of being a system QB; that's an O-Coordinator who can rig up an offense to meet the strengths (or avoid the weaknesses) of any QB.

Why not? Realistic question.