Originally posted by Kenshinzen
you know that these experiments don't work consistenly in upper leagues right? 
Depends on the build and the OC (or DC). Also the league. For example, there's a huge difference in how a RQB plays in Casual vs Regular leagues. They tend to do much better in Casual, overall. In Regular leagues you cannot have unreal expectations. This game was not designed for Mahomes or Vick or Cunningham or Lamar or those types of QB's. I suspect the devs reckoned if they made them too powerful then that's all anyone would build and they'd likely wreck the game. Whatever their reason, generally speaking, you can be very successful if you use them right (RQB's)... both running and throwing. But you cannot expect them to preform to NFL standards. As for Casual leagues, RQB's work fine there. I don't even consider them 'experiments' in those leagues. I ran a team with 2 of them and no other QB's so we HAD to learn how to use them. They both had excellent seasons, both rushing and passing, and we lost in the Championship. Not bad for my 2nd season ever as a Casual OC... but it sure taught me to look at RQB's a LOT differently. I no longer thought of them as "only good for running".
I seriously believe Bort has built in some 'passing help' buffers for RQB's, as I posted previously. I really do. Based on replays and scouting that I've done over all these many seasons I can't explain why a RQB, with less than 50 in passing, can throw just as good as a passing QB (with 170+ passing skill) does on short and mid ranged routes unless Bort boosted their (RQB's) passing abilities. Where they seem to suffer are long throws (over 10-15 yards). Which, given what we know about Bort's mind on this game, makes perfect sense.
