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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
There's a reason why 31 teams passed on Lamar Jackson.
Teams passed on him because they couldn't see him running a traditional NFL offense, whether it's the WCO, E/P or Coryell.
Greg Roman also designed an offense for Colin Kaepernick.
Once Roman was fired, Kaepernick struggled in Chip Kelly's WCO and hasn't played a down since.
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Oh, I agree with pretty much all of that. Of course, I could always say that 32 teams passed on Tom Brady multiple times, but who cares, really.
Because I completely agree that every team in the NFL looked at Lamar's body of work and decided that he probably would have trouble digesting a true NFL type offense. And they were right.
I thought they did him a disservice by starting him as early as they did. Lamar was always a project that was going to need serious seasoning before he was really ready to run a pro offense.
But they opted to take a shortcut and well here we are.
My only thought or doubt concerning the above is that Harbaugh is not an idiot, and he's supposedly a pretty good 'quarterback whisperer.' So if he wanted Lamar, he had to have a good reason that went beyond "the guy can run really fast." Harbaugh had to believe that he could make this kid a real NFL QB.