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

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Originally Posted by Amnorix

So....back to the basics.

"System QB" means any QB not named Favre, Elway, and maybe Montana.

Great -- what a dumb f**king term. Remind me to blast anyone who ever uses it in that type of context.

The ONLY definition of that term I've seen on here that makes any sense at all is for a college QB who is from a ridiculously wide open system that results in crazy stats for a QB who is doomed to fail in the NFL because that system can't work at the pro level.

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.