How much help do young QBs need to succeed in the NFL?
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Quarterbacks get all the attention in the NFL, and understandably so. But young signal callers don't succeed or fail on their own. They need the right infrastructure around them to become the player the teams drafting them believe they can be. So...what is that infrastructure? Robert Mays, Nate Tice, Derrik Klassen dig into the importance of pass-catchers, offensive lines and playcallers for young QBs, with lessons from recent history, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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8:49 Pass-catchers
32:08 Offensive lines
55:04 Play callers
66:23 The teams in this draft's QB market
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| 0:47.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:51.1 | Really fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:53.0 | Earlier this week, Nate and I talked about the top four quarterbacks in this year's |
| 0:57.2 | draft, the guys that are going to potentially be first round picks and what they look like as |
| 1:01.3 | prospects. |
| 1:02.1 | But I think we've learned over time that the success or failure of young quarterbacks in the NFL |
| 1:08.0 | isn't just about what type of prospects those players are. |
| 1:11.6 | The situation that these guys are dropped into matters immensely. |
| 1:16.1 | So we're going to look at the other side of that coin today. |
| 1:19.8 | We're going to look at what has led to successful quarterback play for young guys with infrastructure, the play calling, the pass catchers, the line. When these |
| 1:29.3 | guys work out, what are they surrounded by? And when they don't, what are they surrounded by? |
| 1:35.0 | So we thought it was a nice little combo with a show that we did earlier this week. Helping me |
| 1:41.1 | dig through this today, first of all, my good friend, Nate Tyson, how you doing, buddy? |
| 1:46.3 | Doing very well. |
| 1:47.5 | I'm excited that our third guest are here, our third member of this chat is here today. |
| 1:52.4 | I'm very excited to work with him. |
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