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Originally Posted by MagicHef
Maybe these are my homer glasses, but when he scrambles he seems to do well. On his 18 yard scramble he was running away from DEs and LBs, he got caught by a safety. He just isn't doing it much. I want to see rollouts, bootlegs and moving pockets, but all we seem to do is straight dropbacks. It's almost as if they were expecting to have their offense feature a different QB...
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He hasn't turned into Matt Ryan, but he isn't as fast and he isn't as slippery as he used to be.
Defenses have gotten better at not letting him scramble to his right.
Once QB's reach a certain age, they either get reluctant to take/risk hits or they get knocked out of the league.
As I said, I expect Russ and the offense to do better but a Mahomes should be able to gracefully turn his game into a Rodgers that only scrambles occasionally with age, or a better version yet.
I don't see that with Russ.
Lamar's passing has improved dramatically, but I don't see it happening with him either.