You can win with a running qb, but only to a certain point. I’m sure some team will eventually win the Super Bowl with a qb who scrambles all the time, but until that happens, you’ll get guys like Kaepernick who topped out as a conference champ and had a short shelf life. I remember he and RGIII went off in the same year and were dubbed “the future of the NFL” and neither really sustained success. RG 3 got several years of paychecks tho, so good for him.

What can further complicate the running qb debate are negative racial stereotypes with seemingly a majority of the running types being black. It’s funny, I was thinking about qbs who could run who had sustained years long success and were within sight of a Super Bowl and Steve McNair comes to mind. However, he was great as a passer too. If a couple plays were different, he very easily could have won the Super Bowl in 1999. Of course, that’s 24 years ago now (and damn, I’m getting old lol)

The real victory was the experiences we had along the way.

The word “wasted” is tossed around constantly nowadays. If a player doesn’t win a Super Bowl, his career is “wasted”. If a player has a great season but his team sucks that year, he’s being “wasted”. You play to win a Super Bowl, yes, but there’s so many levels between Super Bowl champs and Hue Jackson 0-16 Browns.