What the Hell is a "System QB" and why is it bad to be one?

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Originally Posted by banyon

I thought the guy who gave the example of the Spurrier QB's was right on. Wuerffel, Grossman, Dean, Doug Johnson.

Basically Spurrier did not trust his QB's to make reads very much. In his genius, he would tell his QB's, "I'm calling the play, you just throw the ball where I'm telling you to". Then he would draw up the play and point out where the QB was supposed to throw when the shifts and patterns had been run. When those QB's got to the league, they weren't used to reading and reacting to Defenses when things broke down.

That's what I think of when someone says "System QB".

If a QB can have repeatable success in various offenses, he's not a system guy. Guys like those mentioned above are DEFINITIONS of system QB.

Guys like Aikman... they're not system guys, they're not put a team on their back guys... those are QBs that rock when the talent is amazing (early 90s) and suck when the talent is average (mid/late 90s).