Emory Jones was born a decade too late.
He’s cut from the same cloth as a lot of the quarterbacks who came of age during the time when the spread option went mainstream in the decade from about 2006 to 2015. Call them athlete-first quarterbacks. There were plenty of them from Oregon guys like Dennis Dixon and Darron Thomas, to RichRod’s best triggermen Pat White and Denard Robinson, to countless others as you go down the line.
There was a broad spectrum of quality of these signal callers, but they tended to share three attributes: terrific athletes, strong arms, and a relatively basic ability to execute a passing offense.