went a step further<\/a>, outlining how contrary to some of the history Orlovsky appeared to allude to around Herbert, Black quarterbacks are not only accepted more on the field these days but also as the faces of franchises.<\/p>\n\u201cYou have your Dan Orlovskys, those guys like that \u2026 they said it themselves. They see these white quarterbacks their kind of prototypical type of quarterback,\u201d Owens said on his Get To the Point podcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cStand in the pocket, deliver the ball everywhere. But the game has changed. Yeah, you\u2019re going to need that at some point, but these Black quarterbacks are about to erase a lot of things as it relates to the prototypical type of quarterback. Because the game has changed so much and these guys, they offer so much with their arms but with their feet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
While Orlovsky\u2019s comments were taken out of context (he was defending his affinity for Jordan Love just as much as Herbert), he correctly underlined that Herbert is right out of central casting. Appearance and personality are often tied to what is perhaps the most American of positions in sports. The fact that Herbert is tall, handsome, and personable is hard to separate from the way he is talked about in the media.<\/p>\n
But Owens argued that race is not as much of a deciding factor as it once was.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously the trend has changed over the last 10 years,\u201d Owens said. \u201cYou\u2019ve seen, even going into the season this year, I don\u2019t know how many Black quarterbacks were starting this year but it was a lot of them. So now, you\u2019re seeing the typical used-to-be faces of franchises and faces of the NFL starting to change a little bit. It\u2019s starting to darken up a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Owens ripped through several Black quarterbacks who can now boast a winning pedigree and veteran expertise, beyond the athleticism that people have long attributed as the sole advantage a Black QB brought to the table. This year in the league, Jameis Winston, Geno Smith and Jacoby Brissett have filled in capably for building teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow they\u2019ve evolved, and they\u2019re showing that they\u2019re not just running quarterbacks. They can make all the throws,\u201d Owens said. \u201cThat was part of it, too. \u2018They can\u2019t read defenses, they\u2019re not smart enough, they can\u2019t read defenses.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThese guys have what it takes to make franchises very successful and push them to winning a Super Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the first few weeks of the NFL season, the disappointment of Justin Herbert in Los Angeles has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,24982,478531,593,85,201836],"class_list":["post-910527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dan-orlovsky","tag-get-to-the-point-podcast","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-terrell-owens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}