football nerd who just can't get enough. Similar things were said about Beck and Hall, but I don't ever recall hearing such commentary about Heaps, Nelson, Mangum, Hill, etc. Maybe Nelson a little bit, but he was so limited physically he had a ceiling that no amount of film watching could push him through.

A lot of QBs have the physical tools, but they never put the mental side of it together. Tom Brady cycles through 29 "brain games" to train his attention, memory, navigation, visual tracking, etc. and is ranked in the 99th percentile of every one of those games, on top of all the film study he does. https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/07/26/tom-brady-new-england-patriots-tb12-method


That is why I'm most excited about Wilson. I don't think we've had a QB with the combination of football IQ and physical gifts that Wilson has since Hall and Beck.