A running QB could add a spark, sure.
But the NFL is a brutal world.
Running QBs just don't last.
This entire trend kind of pisses me off. This is the National Football League, not the NBA. This fascination with running QBs reminds me too much of the NBAs obsession with its star players rather than the teams.
Too many kids playing madden with Mike Vick just 3 years ago, now its Colon Krapernick and RGMe.
GROSS!!!
Running QBs DONT LAST.
Period.
Its hard enough for a good pocket passer to stay healthy in this league, let alone some fool that takes off running as soon as his first read is covered.
Russell Wilson is the first "mobile" QB to win a SB in this modern (2000's) era.
And their SB victory had very little to do with the fact that he is mobile.
Give me a legit RUNNINGBACK and QUARTERBACK all F****NG day!!!! (and twice on Sundays!!!!)
That's the NFL that I like. Besides, I don't believe you can build a dynasty around a run first QB. This game is just too violent for that kind of constant contact.
Remember the Wildcat?
It was a nice gimmick, but it couldn't last long term. Now its a memory. Miami never even got a conference (let alone a Divisional) title out of it.
That said, it is true that the young QBs are getting more and more mobile these days.
But just think.... there are Robert Quinns and Alec Ogletrees developing right now... these are the kind of guys destined to make the "Explosive, Exciting, Extreme" style of QB just another page in the NFL history books... mentioned right in the same chapter as the "WildCat"...