Which QB is better: Dak Prescott or Lamar Jackson?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

I can only give you so much rep but I wanted to call this out.

Petrino groomed SEVERAL NFL QB's. Lamar was there for 3 years. He is what he is. Anybody that thinks his ceiling is that much higher than what he is right now is kidding themselves.

Said this last year - my worry with Jackson's ceiling would be that he DOESN'T struggle with decisionmaking.

You can take a guy with mediocre accuracy/arm talent and play him up by fixing his decisionmaking and making sure he goes to the right place with the ball every time. At that point the low degree of difficulty makes him effective.

Jackson has been making good decisions with the football for a long time. He's never really looked all that raw.

His problem isn't how he operates an offense. And that's a REAL problem. Because it means that he's at his ceiling. He's not getting any more talented and his biomechanics just don't make him a precise thrower.

He's as good as he'll ever be. The only exception could be if he does what Russ did and just trains himself constantly into developing a dynamite deep ball, but Russ was always a damn precise passer even before he became a deep ball assasssin.

Jackson isn't that guy so I don't think he can have a similar trajectory.

Jackson will ALWAYS be beholden to the game script. He will never be a guy who simply brings his team back. It'll happen on occasion, but he'll never be truly good at it.

He's a supercharged game manager.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Said this last year - my worry with Jackson's ceiling would be that he DOESN'T struggle with decisionmaking.

You can take a guy with mediocre accuracy/arm talent and play him up by fixing his decisionmaking and making sure he goes to the right place with the ball every time. At that point the low degree of difficulty makes him effective.

Jackson has been making good decisions with the football for a long time. He's never really looked all that raw.

His problem isn't how he operates an offense. And that's a REAL problem. Because it means that he's at his ceiling. He's not getting any more talented and his biomechanics just don't make him a precise thrower.

He's as good as he'll ever be. The only exception could be if he does what Russ did and just trains himself constantly into developing a dynamite deep ball, but Russ was always a damn precise passer even before he became a deep ball assasssin.

Jackson isn't that guy so I don't think he can have a similar trajectory.

Jackson will ALWAYS be beholden to the game script. He will never be a guy who simply brings his team back. It'll happen on occasion, but he'll never be truly good at it.

He's a supercharged game manager.

Cannot agree more.

As for Russ, he was one of the most accurate college QB's I've ever seen. Yeah, he's definitely refined his deep ball but coming out, I remember telling people that he had elite accuracy. It might have been in one of the old Senior Bowl threads.