Vikings QB Joshua Dobbs’ Professor Gives Emphasis On How Studying Rocket Science Helps A Quarterback

You may be familiar with Joshua Dobbs, the travelling NFL genius who took over the first half of this most peculiar NFL season. In this one, more conventional plotlines have been subverted by a play with the word “tush” in the title, a worldwide pop sensation, and currently the most well-known engineer in America. By the way, that’s Dobbs—a combination journeyman quarterback, rocket scientist, and folk hero.

Vikings QB Joshua Dobbs’ Professor Gives Emphasis On How Studying Rocket Science Helps A Quarterback

It’s challenging to play quarterback in the NFL. The position is challenging because it requires memorizing many play calls in what is essentially a foreign language and requires making split-second choices when 300-pound monsters are attacking.

What really does call for a rocket scientist? When a club requires a quarterback to enter a game with no experience throwing to its receivers, having maybe a minute to go over the cadence with the offensive line and understanding next to none of the team’s play calls.

That’s how Matthew Mench ended up doing the most peculiar interview throughout his illustrious and lengthy career in higher education. You see, Mench is not only the dean of Tennessee’s Tickle College of Engineering but also a former friend, mentor, and professor of Dobbs.

That’s why Mench is amused by the unlikely turn that Dobbs’s career has taken this season—dad joke number one coming up. The engineering departments at UT were the focus of attention equivalent to a football field; the intensity was so great and concentrated that it threatened to blind not only everyone on campus but also the whole city of Knoxville or the state of Tennessee.

The Vikings, who acquired Dobbs from the Cardinals in a trade that was finalized just 20 days prior to Halloween, will once more start him at quarterback. He will start in place of Kirk Cousins, whose injury that ended the season sparked off an incredible chain of events.

While playing, he made long passes downfield, oversaw games, picked up new offensive strategies, became close to new teammates, perfected the check-down move, hustled for touchdowns, coughed up turnovers, and won and lost. On game day, he created active rosters. He did not do anything. He recorded four games with multiple touchdowns only this season. Part II: traded twice this season alone. Mench describes it as “just bounced around forever.”

When Dobbs led the Vikings to an incredible victory over the Falcons in Week 9, he instantly won over the Minnesota fans. The quarterback, who had only joined the squad five days before, completed an 11-play, 75-yard drive in the game’s closing minutes despite not even knowing the names of his teammates.

In the NFL, Dobbs’ mythology is beginning to get more and more traction. Because of his ability to jump right into a club and pick up the new scheme rapidly, he has been compared to former NFL quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick’s prosperous 17-year career in the NFL as a starter and a backup was made possible by it, and Dobbs appears to share that belief.

Similar to NFL quarterbacks, engineers must tackle complicated issues, but they have more time, sharper minds, and less bodily risk. As an intense sport, offensive running is engineering. Like many engineers who opt to become designers, Dobbs is a visual learner, which means he can see things in three dimensions.

Evaluators frequently mention “spatial awareness” when discussing NFL quarterbacks, and Dobbs uses a similar method based on visual learning to take up offensive schemes—which are like to learn a new language—more quickly than appears humanly conceivable. Mench states, “It’s impossible,” implying that it ought to be.

Did Josh Dobbs work for NASA?

Once back in Cleveland, he was traded to the Arizona Cardinals during the 2023 preseason, where he played one game, going 1-7, before being acquired by the Minnesota Vikings. He made two externals with NASA in between all of it. During his 19-game NFL career, he completed 280 of 447 pass attempts for 2,672 yards and 14 touchdowns from the passing position.

What did Josh Dobbs score on the Wonderlic test?

49–42. Dobbs is not your average student; he has a 4.0 GPA from UT and an aeronautical engineering degree. On the NFL’s contentious Wonderlic Test, Minshew defeated Dobbs 42-29.

 

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