Honestly, I hope this is true. It means that they are letting him get what he wants for 2nd draft in a row, and he has zero excuses. If he fails now, it's on him.
I doubt that McNair would give O'Brien full control over the pick. He wants Smith and O'Brien to work together, and if they disagree they have to go to him for the final decision. McNair won't even talk about an extension for O'Brien until after the season, so I doubt he is going to let him decide the future of the team's quarterback situation if he isn't even sure he will be here much longer.
i don't agree with the writer's take about having to run a pro offense. I was trying to look for stats under shogun snaps, only stuff I could find was Brady's, 439 drop backs under shotgun and 233 drop backs from under center in 2014. I hate that formation when it's done over 50% of the time but that's who B.o.B models his offense. League wide, 15,000 drop backs from shotgun while only 5,000 from under center. Save the world bring back play action.
Which was then broken by Andrew Luck. Also if you consider what Newton has done since being a rookie he had 3 straight years of regression, then a stellar MVP season, then last year he was one of the worst QB's in the league. Overall, Cam has been pretty disappointing because despite his physical gifts, he's missing quite a bit between the ears. LOL that's perfectly fine with me. It has never mattered to me how many people are right about something, the only thing that matters is that they are right. In Cam's career, he's been bad far more than he's been good.
I know it was a very different era but have you ever gone and looked at the stats of "legendary" HOF quarterbacks like Namath? Namath had 173 td but 220 int in his career. Yikes.
I've never bought in to interception amount in college. I always try to give credit to the guys who have confidence to make difficult throws in a confident manner. Confidence is important, and that is something we missed last year when Brock threw the ball.
The thread is originally about Deshaun Watson, y'all just happen to currently be discussing Cam Newton.
For sure, QB's used to suck. The standards today are just a whole lot higher than they were back in the day. Honestly, Tim Tebow tried to get into the league at the wrong time, if he was breaking into the league at the same time as guys like Joe Namath or Terry Bradshaw then he'd be in the HOF today.
I know some members are opposed to the rapz muzic but i dont think the aquarium/ambient/serene-go-to-sleep music doesnt help either.
Luck got drafted by a better team that was only in that position cause Peyton left A lot of points you make about Newton apply to Luck Wilson has had the best career out of any of these latest group of young qbs
LOL whatever you say killer. For sure Luck has struggled too at times, but when he was good, he was better than Newton has been thus far and he's been good more often despite playing one fewer season and missing more than half of another season to injury. Neither of them are top tier elite QB's and that's just more evidence that even the best prospects can struggle.
