Curious how you pick one game to prop up Manziel too. It's been proven time and again that level of competition in college does not correlate with success in the NFL. He's done exactly what you would expect him to do against inferior competition: dominate it.
If you go down the bridgewater trail and he winds up a bust...this team is screwed for at least 5 more years. I'll take it even further. Bridgewater is a fraud. By virtue of the competition he has faced, he will be a bigger bust than david carr and jamarcus russell. Trade that pick. I hope he goes to Jacksonville. They can have 2 busted QBs.
lol, what about manziel vs lsu last yr. or lsu this yr. or mizzou this yr. or florida last yr. Get it?
Why is everyone freaking out that we will land Bridgewater, if the Texans had like 5 or 6 wins right now many of you would be calling to trade up for him. It's hard to please fans these days.
Level of opponents doesn't matter, Roethlisberger, Flacco, Dalton, Foles, Alex Smith, all guys who can win you games. You need 2 of Three things to be a decent NFL QB, great pocket awareness, quick release, powerful arm. Flacco can gun it, Big Ben has a freakish ability to withstand/avoid pressure. I dont see Bridgewater having an insane ability or combination of tools to be a great QB. I liken him to Marc Bulger type who could produce decently in the right system with good players around him. But that is unlikely for him.
Hey I love Manziel as much as the next guy but it's not as much about what he did in college as it is how he did it. He used his athleticism to create amazing plays. I am not like some who think what he does will not transfer. I think some of it will but I also believe some of it won't. He is short and he doesn't stay in the pocket. Yeah he can create some of those amazing plays in the NFL but at what price. He got hurt this year and he will get hurt in the NFL worse or he will have to learn to stay in the pocket more. I don't think he will be as effective in the pocket. Part of that is his size and part of it is his instinctive desire to run and create. I can not be sure of that. Maybe he can learn to play smarter like Russ Wilson but now you are asking him to do something he hasn't consistently shown you in college. Bridgewater doesn't have that problem. He thinks pass first and scramble and pass first and then run. He trust his pocket more than anyone I have seen in college not named Luck and only put Luck ahead ever so slightly. And Bridgewater can run effectively when he has to. Manziel is much more exciting player but he is also a much bigger risk than Bridgewater for those reasons. An NFL team has to hope he will learn to do what Bridgewater already does well.
take clowney #1, him and watt would be devastating for years then 1st pick of round 2 pick from mettenberger derek carr nick fales tajh boyd
crazy that everyone here is overlooking clowney's crappy work ethic, and his dramatic drop in production. but, espn sure does talk about him a lot, so he must be the one!!
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>NFL evaluators hold "competitive nature" in extremely high regard. In that regard, Manziel is completely off the charts.</p>— Lance Zierlein (@LanceZierlein) <a href="https://twitter.com/LanceZierlein/status/408092081790259200" data-datetime="2013-12-03T22:35:08+00:00">December 3, 2013</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
He's definitely more athletic than Schaub but he definitely reminds me of Schaub. He also is inconsistent like Schaub and hasn't won the big games like Schaub. I think he handles pressure better than Schaub but he moves around the pocket eerily a lot like Schaub. Still I would draft him in the second round if we can't Bridgewater and we got Clowney in the first. Remember Schaub wasn't all bad he just peed in his pants when he got scared. WHo would have guessed that. I don't think Mettenberger has that problem.
