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How to Play QB in the NFL

Kurt Warner put on a clinic yesterday. More TD's (5) than incompletions (4).

Great QB play in the NFL is actually very simple. It involves three things:

1. Leadership. There are two men on the field in the NFL that must be leaders for the team to succeed. The HC & the QB. Most (not all, but most) winning (SB) teams have both a HC and QB that have no shortage of leadership skills.

2. Decision Making. Here a guy like Kurt Warner excells. Last season, on their way to the SB, a few Arizona Cardinals came out publicly in the Arizona Republic and stated the biggest difference between having Warner under center and having Matt Leinart under center. They stated that Warner is "Better and quicker at spotting the open receiver. They weren't being critical of Leinart. They weren't stabbing him in the back. They were just stating the facts.

And that's what Warner does. He drops back, makes his reads and gets rids of the ball ASAP. He makes his O-Line look much better by doing that, than by hanging on to the ball too long.

3. Accuracy: The ability to put the ball almost exactly where you want it to go.

And that's it. One intangible (Leadership) and two 'tangibles' (Accuracy and Decision Making).

All the other stuff (Height, weight, running ability, arm strength) mean very little without the three criteria listed above.

Jay Cutler is as big and strong as any QB in the NFL. He has an arm that's second to none.

That said, Cutler's tenure with the Bears in the NFL will be defined largely on these three things: Leadership, Accuracy and Decision Making.


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