I'd really love for someone to explain to me where all the Ryan Tannehill buzz comes from. I find it difficult to buy into any QB who throws 12 TD : 13 INTs, regardless of the receiving corp.
Used to be you gave a guy 3 years before giving up on him and moving on.
But I think with so many young QBs having instant success, like Ben Roethlisberger, Joe Flacco, Matt Ryan, Andrew Luck, Russell Wilson and Robert Griffin III, the learning curve is no longer there.
I'm sure you could also apply this to guys like Aaron Rodgers and Colin Kaepernick who sat the bench for one or more seasons, and then came out on fire when they finally got their opportunity.
I don't believe that's necessarily fair to most young quarterbacks to expect them all to live up to these hefty expectations in year one. Because most of those guys mentioned above went to good situations, with loaded/stacked teams already in place when they arrived. But fair or not, I believe that the precedent has been set.
What's scary - to me - is that after the draft Chip Kelly claims that he would have taken Dion Jordan had he still been on the board at #4.
1. Even if that's true you don't put it out there that you essentially didn't want the guy you ended up with.
2. I really didn't want Chip Kelly using any draft picks on players from Oregon. So the absolute last thing I wanted (outside of burning the #4 overall on a QB) was to draft Dion Jordan. That just sounded like it had Danny Weurffel / Steve Spurrier written all over it. Now if Chip Kelly loads up on undrafted free agents from Oregon, I've got no problem with that because he knows the players better than anyone.
Personally I would have drafted Joeckel #1. He proved himself all season long against the best defensive lines in college football... Alabama, LSU, the SEC in general. Not to mention the rest of his college career in the Big XII.
I don't put much stock in a guy dominating the Senior Bowl. Philadelphia made that mistake at the defensive end spot three years ago when they drafted Brandon Graham (and passed on Jason Pierre-Paul) simply because Graham had the best Senior Bowl performance.
Hell, anything "could" happen.
But that lone writer should have his voting rights revoked.
But I think with so many young QBs having instant success, like Ben Roethlisberger, Joe Flacco, Matt Ryan, Andrew Luck, Russell Wilson and Robert Griffin III, the learning curve is no longer there.
I'm sure you could also apply this to guys like Aaron Rodgers and Colin Kaepernick who sat the bench for one or more seasons, and then came out on fire when they finally got their opportunity.
I don't believe that's necessarily fair to most young quarterbacks to expect them all to live up to these hefty expectations in year one. Because most of those guys mentioned above went to good situations, with loaded/stacked teams already in place when they arrived. But fair or not, I believe that the precedent has been set.
1. Even if that's true you don't put it out there that you essentially didn't want the guy you ended up with.
2. I really didn't want Chip Kelly using any draft picks on players from Oregon. So the absolute last thing I wanted (outside of burning the #4 overall on a QB) was to draft Dion Jordan. That just sounded like it had Danny Weurffel / Steve Spurrier written all over it. Now if Chip Kelly loads up on undrafted free agents from Oregon, I've got no problem with that because he knows the players better than anyone.
I don't put much stock in a guy dominating the Senior Bowl. Philadelphia made that mistake at the defensive end spot three years ago when they drafted Brandon Graham (and passed on Jason Pierre-Paul) simply because Graham had the best Senior Bowl performance.
I'm down 8-1..
I'm going to bail..[/quote]
Too late.
I gayed up your profile page.
That's what you get for coming out of the closet as a homophobe.
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