I think its just the opposite. People are trying to take these read-option qbs out of college and turn them into pocket passers and don't understand why they are not being successful. Take the qbs mentioned in the article. Cam Newton, Kaepernick, and RGIII, all had phenomenal success in their first few years because they ran the ball and forced defenses to play the entire field. But everyone says you can't be successful in the long run doing that so they have been weaned into adopting a pocket style approach to playing football and they all have suffered a decline in production.
Meanwhile nothing is being said at all about Tannehill. He has been more and more an active runner and his production has been the best of his career this year. He was a pocket style passer that has started incorporating more mobility into his game and it is paying off. I also find it funny how all these articles conveniently ignore Russel Wilson. Could it be because he is a running qb that is also adept at pocket passing and counters the argument against running qbs?
I say let the athletic qbs run and do what they do and find their success the way they know how. The problem relies in trying to make someone be something that they are not.
If running by the qb was thought to be the key to success all of a sudden would everyone be calling for Matt Ryan or Stafford to start getting out of the pocket and run, run, run? I don't think so cause that is not what they do or how they play the game. Just like sitting in the pocket is not how Newton, Kaep, and RGIII have learned to play the game.
