Brad Rock: It's a matter of taste for coaching great Don Shula

That doesn’t mean the game is the same as it was in 1972. From the old, pocket-passing quarterbacks of the Griese/Marino era has come a new breed of run/pass threats such as Cam Newton, Colin Kaepernick and Robert Griffin III.

Great athletes, one and all, Shula says.

But does every team need such a quarterback? Not necessarily.

“I think if you can surround them with good running backs where they can hand off to keep the defense honest, then when he drops back, he’s going to have that little extra time to throw the football and won’t have to scramble,” Shula says.

Still, he adds, the multi-faceted quarterbacks are “amazing” weapons.

The filet of modern filets, if you want to put it that way.

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