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Originally Posted by O.city
Mahomes runs to pick up the occasional first down or to escape. It's not a big part of his game.
You win throwing the football in the NFL. Always.
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By my definition of playground football, Mahomes actually does it MORE than Jackson.
Playground ball means doing things out of structure. Mahomes does that a LOT but he's incredible at it.
Jackson succeeds mostly within the structure of Roman's offense. Oh sure, occasionally he pulls it down and runs, but even that's not really 'run around, point at stuff and hope someone gets open..." - it's more reaction than it is what I would call playground ball.
If I'm putting conventional tags on an unconventional quarterback, I'd say that Jackson is a game managing, system QB. He's not a perfect fit for either of those labels, but when you start to look at what needs to happen in a game for him to get the W, he both needs to be working from ahead or very close behind (typical game manager stuff) and he needs to be operating in a system specifically designed to get him shorter throws right in front of him while taking advantage of his legs.
He's not the improvisational gunslinger that I associate with playground passers. He's really a game-managing system quarterback.