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Gatorhater said:
Jim was our best QB but he was mobile and not pure pocket guy. I’d go with Geno as pocket guy. Nobody threw long ball like Vinny but his short stuff was little too hot to handle. Although, Steve, Bernie and Craig were good to. Dang harder question than I thought.
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Jim was not really mobile. He had a nickname among his teammates, "slewfoot", because he was so slow. I think Testaverde was best pure passer at UM, period. I go back and look at highlights thirty years ago and he had jaw-dropping velocity and accuracy on some of his medium range balls.
 
TheMatador said:
Jim was not really mobile. He had a nickname among his teammates, "slewfoot", because he was so slow. I think Testaverde was best pure passer at UM, period. I go back and look at highlights thirty years ago and he had jaw-dropping velocity and accuracy on some of his medium range balls.
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His scramble against OU, and subsequent TD Throw, practically Won him the Heisman...Testerverde was a Multi Sport star in HS....
 
BWCD said:
No love for Dorsey? Dude threw from the pocket for 4 years and dominated the competition. He had a ton of talent to work with and was almost never hit, but as a passer - he was surgical, precise, and had amazing anticipation. He didn't have the biggest arm, of course, but this thread isn't about which Miami QB had the biggest arm.
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He was never hit as a passer because he played behind the best offensive line Miami ever had—even better (as a whole) than what Gino had in 1991. Dorsey was great, but Testaverde was a better pocket passer.
 
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caneinorlando said:
Nah....Kosar was...with a less talented OL...TE...and RBs
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Pocket passer? Yes
Cerebral? Nope

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mcnaire2004 said:
Well there isn't a long list of successful not-pocket passers here
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Because for most of the time since Schnelly arrived we've been basically a pro-style attack. Our best running QBs maybe you have to back to the '50's, like Eddie Johns and Fran Curci. Fran was named a second team All American by AP as a running back.

Subsequent to that George Mira had great mobility, he was a terrific scrambler, but he was basically a drop back passer. He sometimes ran an option but that was more of a change-of-pace to keep defenses off balance. It was not our bread-and-butter like it was with Curci and Johns. Our offenses before that were basically option, we ran the "belly" series, sometimes called the Miami "drive" series.

Many on here think we had no history but some of those early and mid-50's teams were regarded as national powerhouses.

[Unfortunately, we have a few posters on here who mock those of us with interest in our history. They are just showing their ignorance and immaturity.]
 
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caneinorlando said:
You don't even have any idea...
#1 The ONLY reason he Beat out Testeverde was because of his Smarts
#2 His slurred speech is from Medical issues....
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Yes....slurred speech is because of numerous concussions, most likely.

(Nancy Pelosi, on the other hand, has no such excuse.

Sorry, just had to do it, even if that "drunk" video wad a fake. Incidentally, I think Art Kehoe used to work for Nancy's husband, who owned a minor league pro team that Art used to coach for. I happen to like Art although I would prefer sonebkdy else coach our OL now.)
 
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