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I’ve been rooting for black qbs since the days of Warren moon, I can’t be naive with this, the leagues entrenched view that black qb’s aren’t smart enough to play the position, still runs deep. And now that the qb position is as much about a players athleticism, as well as arm strength, accuracy and ability to read defenses and process information, white qbs are having to take on board elements of play that used to be just “black” running qb things the waters only going to get murkier, and the “intelligence or not” of a player is going to bob back to the surface once again, despite what mahomes, Jackson, stroud, Wilson, Murray and others are doing..
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Yeah but Jackson is a running back…
I joke obviously. But I’d honestly say Lamar is the only one I hear this of.
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This really echos RG3s interview with Rich Eisen pre draft? Starting at 3:40, he says a very similar thing. How the vast majority of QBs extend the pocket, run, put themselves at harms way entering the modern NFL, but somehow he was only compared to Daniels because they are both black.
https://youtu.be/BTozfrPRiR8?si=LRriLo0rznCc4DXG&t=220
For all the ways in which the league is morally bereft, and racist (although I think my underlying belief is that it is so as a microcosm of America, if not western society as a whole, as opposed to necessarily racism off it’s own back) it has proven time and time again that it is willing to sacrifice almost any principles it holds on the altar of success.
I’m not sure that:
Bomani jones has a theory that you can’t have a white qb backing up a black one, that the calls from the fans to bench a black qb when their play dips will get too loud.
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the leagues entrenched view that black QBs aren’t smart enough to play the position, still runs deep.
are the same thing, and I think you’re close with the latter than Bomani is with the former.
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Interesting. I think though beside a few loud assholes, when it comes to football most are more interested in winning than racism.
Booing to be benched would be more because fans are fickle and there’s no greater player than a back up during a loss.
Maybe naive but I enjoy naive bliss.