That was exactly my point in bringing them up, just backing up what you said about it taking one good hit to change the trajectory of a running QBs career
Funny enough the knee injury actually extended Culpepper’s life in the NFL IMO. He was in his first official season without Randy Moss, and teams were exposing the fact that he never learned how to read an NFL defense. He had a 2-5 record with 6 TDs to 12 INTs at the time of the injury. It was brutal. Had he kept playing shit football he would have been out of the league sooner. With the knee injury teams tried to rationalize that maybe its rust and recovery that he needed instead of the fact that he had a shit tier mental game.
As far as Mike Vick, I have no idea where you were going with that one. I would need you to be really specific on what injury you are talking about and what you perceive was different post injury.
The NFL has put rules into place to protect QBs in the pocket. Absolutely can still get injured but when a QB decides to be a RB there chance for injury increases. Look I love what Fields brings as a runner but actually throwing the ball and running an offense he’s got a ways to go. The Bears are running for 250 plus yards a game and still losing
Its very similar to what the Lions were doing on offense at least yardage wise earlier in the season……and we were losing because of our defense as well.
If the bears were putting up that rushing yardage and could actually have a passing offense as well they would be dangerous.
In one of the threads about how to contain Fields my reply was to simply stay in your lane, and honestly, I don’t think it’s any more difficult than that. Make him beat you with his arm, period.
RGIII-like career. That’s what I see for him. He appears more durably built, but many of his plays are by design, and he’s also taking off quickly on those that are not. I can see him having slow development and being a bit banged up even if he does develop.
I’m wrong (a lot, actually), but I am not afraid of him at all.