Posted on 11/03/2019 3:00:29 AM PST by zeestephen
A 30 slide photo gallery with commentary. #1 - Patrick Mahomes (Texas Tech to Kansas City). #30 - Paxton Lynch (University of Memphis to Denver Broncos).
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I agree entirely. Tebow is a good guy, and he is a hard worker. He should have accepted a role change and he could have spent years in the NFL. He did not want to do that. His choice. He chose not to do that.
Carson Wentz has a ring although he was injured and didn’t play the last few games of the 2017 season.
That’s why I said “lack of” vice “no”.
We’re lucky to have Mahomes, but I’m worried about his knee and those who may want to keep him injured.
Joe Montana was also a later pick in 1979. He had a decent college career but a lot of NFL scouts thought he was too small.
The poster called the Sipe the “most undervalued” pick of all time. Maybe it’s just me, but a 6th round pick who turns into a Hall of Fame QB with six Super Bowl championships is WAY more “undervalued” than a 12th-round pick who turns into a decent starter for ten years and goes to one Pro Bowl.
Not all first-round picks are good and often buried deep in the draft are some very high quality QB's. Tom Brady comes immediately to mind.
A football quarterback is probably the most difficult position for assessing talent at the professional level out of any position in any major sport. There are so many intangible attributes at that position that make a lot of great athletes complete busts at the NFL level.
How many Browns QBs were in the lower half of the rankings...
Early in their careers Brady, Brees, and Rothlesberger were no Marino, Elway or Favre. There will always be a new crop. And Tebow didn’t get run out, he wasn’t good. Really you people gotta get over that crap. Nobody who gets paychecks from FOUR teams is run out. An eighth of the league tried to find a way to make it work with Tebow. Including the most innovative and successful team in the league. If none of them could figure out what to do with his ability he clearly didn’t actually have any.
How different a career do you suppose Brady would have had had the Bengals or Browns drafted him. I think Brady and Belichick owe their HOF careers to each other.
McDaniels traded away draft picks to get in the 1st round a guy everybody projected as a 3rd rounder. He should have been fired on the spot.
Another thing you notice is that may of them have already had signficant injuries. Drafting a QB in the 1st round — especially in the upper-half — guarantees that he will play early, before he is ready. Then 2 things happen: 1. instant success for about 6 to 9 games, and 2. the defenses catch up to him and begin hitting him hard.
Mahomes is defying those odds.
My own Eagles played better with Nick Foles at QB. I believe he was orginally a 3rd round pick. Carson Wentz holds the ball too long and he’s paying a physical price for it. Yeah, you get a few more TD’s by letting a play develop, but the odds are you are going to get smacked throwing that pass.
How many are kneelers?
Bart Starr - 16th round I think
“Bart Starr - 16th round I think”
17th round, 200th pick overall.
He fit nicely into the Packer system.
Johnny Unitas, 9th round, 102nd pick.
Released by the Steelers because they thought he wasn’t smart enough to play QB.
Played for the Bloomfield Rams for $6 per game during 1955 season.
Invited to try out for the Colts. Re-wrote the book on the QB position.
Don’t forget, never drafted QB, Kurt Warner. Now HOF QB.
Kurt Warner. From $5.50/hour at Hyvee to the arena league to NFL MVP, Superbowl MVP and the Hall Of Fame.
And a genuinely nice guy.
Carson Wentz didn’t play in one... Newton... Lost to an old geezer named Manning.
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