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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
Leave Cam Newton out of it. All told, he's actually had a really good NFL career, certainly more than "one year of productivity".
The dude eclipsed 4,000 passing yards as a rookie for crying out loud.
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Cam originated the "**** it, Tyreek's down there somewhere" meme...
Dude was hucking deep ball to Steve Smith left, right and center. He wasn't much of a pure passer, but he had no fear and was willing to just launch it and let Smith go get it.
He didn't really do a lot of 'quarterbacking' in a 'read the defense and run a calculus' sort of thing. Frankly he NEVER really developed that skill set. But he embraced a gamblers mentality and played with his hair on fire.
Ultimately for his career he was a sub-60% passer with a pretty pedestrian Adjusted Y/A so he wasn't making up for low precision through an avalanche of downfield connections. He was Eli Manning with the ability to to run the football. That's valuable, but it's not what I would call a great pure passer.
But he
was who you would ultimately hope Jackson could become. A guy who was never a truly
good passer but who could threaten all parts of the field. And with his ability to do to that AND run the football, he makes defenses account for a lot.
Jackson simply doesn't threaten enough of the field as a passer. Even if he's a little more precise on the short stuff than Newton is, he's not a credible threat to challenge too many parts of the field so I think his ceiling is lower than Newtons in terms of team success.