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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
That may have been true 30 years ago but it's not true today. College QB's no longer need a year or two on the bench to get up to the NFL's speed of play.
You're seeing it more and more with guys like Flacco, Rothlisberger, Rivers, Manning, Newton, Dalton, Luck, Griffen, Tannehill and so on.
That trend will only continue, not get worse.
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Yup. The importance of the sport in general has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 25 years to the point where athletes that used to play baseball and basketball are identified earlier and earlier as football prospects and more specifically quarterbacks, receivers, corners and tight ends.
It's also how the college game and pro game is now played. A "spread" used to be a gimmick where now it's almost a base package and a big part of a pro offense. It also has a lot to do with the rule changes over the last few years as well, that is probably the actual catalyst of the new NFL. Quarterbacks used to be graded much higher if they were from a pro set offense, and still are to a degree, but that is lessening the more the wide open passing game runs the NFL.