I don't want a QB who is looking for D Backs to run over, but I do want one who will try to get every yard out of a play that he can. 2am could have got 5 more yards with nothing more than getting pushed out of bounds. He's not Aron Rodgers or some other old guy who is a the key to the franchise so needing to save himself is nonsense.
Seems when we ran option that it was expected QBs would get hit and that they were going to get every inch out of the play that they could. Can you imagine the reaction of the Peters and AC if frost would have ever run out of bounds 5 yards before contact.
In my humble opinion that play showed a complete lack of effort and I think should be treated the same as the Lamar Jackson lack of effort issue last year.
Fair enough, how many teams today run the quarterback in the way you describe, in the same way we did in the 90s? It's uncommon now for a reason--the entire scheme has gone the way of the dinosaur. If you want to be a power team with a run first quarterback instead of a spread team, we will be stuck recruiting glorified running backs as quarterbacks who aren't really adept at throwing the football. It's a possible way to go, and it's the way we used to be. But it's not Frost's offense, not matter how much he likes to hearken back to it and meld elements from it into his own.
More importantly, I simply disagree that Martinez showed a "complete lack of effort." That's hyperbole. I've watched the play three times. When he scrambled from the pocket I have no reason to suspect he was not running at
full effort and speed. Same thing when he juked the defender out of the pocket to get the first down. I have no reason to believe that wasn't his best effort. By that point he was close the sideline and had accomplished his goal--getting a first down and keeping the drive alive.
If someone wants to criticize him for only thinking "first down" and not "touchdown" then I won't take issue with that. What I take issue with are the following assumptions:
a) he didn't try
b) his effort is reflective of someone who doesn't have the desire to win
c) he lacks moxie
d) he is scared of contact
e) he is thinking about his health because he is worried about his draft stock
I think these are the reactions of an entitled, angry fan who lacks the emotional intelligence and/or self-control to realize there might be other explanations available that don't involve any of these extreme claims.
To be clear, I don't think that's what your'e doing (though I do think it's what Bruce is doing), and so please don't take this as disrespect of you and your otherwise thoughtful post. By "complete lack of effort" I take it you mean AM did not do all he could do, and if that's what you meant, I don't disagree though I don't have have a problem with it. Reasonable people can certainly disagree about that.