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Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz talks with former NFL QB Alex Smith about whether rookie QBs should start right away or sit behind a veteran, something Smith has experience with as both a former #1 pick and veteran with Patrick Mahomes behind him. Alex joins Yahoo Sports on behalf of USAA.
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Jason Fitz with Yahoo Sports, hanging out with Alex Smith joining us on behalf of USA A uh excited to get into some of what you’re doing with them, Alex.
But first, let’s start talking football and I gotta talk quarterbacks with the quarterback because you obviously have so much experience in having to play.
But also watching somebody sit the great debate right now with all the young quarterbacks.
Should they play right away?
Should they sit if you were running an organization, what would you do with the young quarterback?
Yeah, I mean, the truth is there’s not one size fits all right.
These situations are all so different.
Um I think you have to try to look at all the variables II, I think at the heart of this though as an organization, when you go select a quarterback with an early pick, you want to do everything in your power that when that player steps foot on the field, that they have the best chance of success and right, and it’s not only where they’re at in their journey and their maturity, right?
How much have they played?
How much experience do they have?
What kind of system.
Are they gonna be running?
But then it’s the pieces around them.
Right.
Not just the other 10 guys in the huddle, uh, but certainly from an offense, defense, special teams.
Right.
Like you want, you want them to go take the field and have the best chance of success.
And, uh, too many times I think organizations don’t have a plan.
Uh, they just throw a kid out there and cross their fingers and, you know, hope they do well.
And I, I don’t believe that the only way to develop a quarterback is this trial by fire, right?
You don’t just have to send them out there and hope they struggle their way…
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Publish date : 2024-11-08 22:35:47
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