So your argument for drafting Teddy with the #1 overall pick is Brady's combine picture... And you call other people trolls... Lmao...!!!!!
EJ Manuel was the top QB on a lot of people's boards, would you have wanted the Texans to draft him first overall if they had the first pick last year?
Also interesting that in the comments Sydeffect posted, he says that in terms of arm strength he has them ranked Bridgewater, Manziel, Bortles. So what does Bortles have going for him exactly aside from size? Not the most consistent, most accurate, fastest, smartest, or strongest. But he's big. That seems to be it. If the knock on Bridgewater was that he's really good at a lot of things but not great at anything, then what does it say about Bortles if he's not as good as Bridgewater at anything?
But that project won't be picked first overall so we can forget about the Bortles vs. Bridgewater talk.
Because the ESPN guys and .com scouts have been boosting Teddy as the best all during the season and some can't comprehend that NFL teams are reportedly ranking Blake as the best quarterback prospect in this draft now that they've had time to break down the tape.
Different draft class and I was never high on him. EJ Manuel didn't/doesn't have the same ability that Bridgewater has as a QB. I'm not saying ranking is the only reason, but I'm sure you know that and just want continue your campaign.
Boosting? lol Thats laughable, I bet if there was counter of how many times bridgewater name was mentioned compare to the likes of manziel it would be manziel in a landslide. I wouldn't be surprised if bortles girlfriend got more mentions than Teddy
That isn't my argument dumba$$. My argument is that Teddy's frame shouldn't be the reason the Texans don't draft him. It should be because they feel he isn't going to be a franchise QB. My argument is that you don't have to have the best physical assets to be a elite QB. Do you not understand? Or do I have to explain everything for you, so your little ignorant mind can comprehend. Peyton Manning has the weakest arm in the NFL, and just had arguably the best season ever from a QB standpoint. His mind sets him apart, and if Teddy's coach speak is true(say he is a savant), than he should be the pick for BOB. Please continue to twist my post as a way of proving an underwhelming outlier point that you will come up with in the next hour. I think you have made about one logical post on this forum since I have read here. Other than that, it has been filled with utter non sense. The current gem of the day was to not draft Clowney because he came from the same college as DJ Swearinger. Child.
I'm pointing out why being the best QB in the class doesn't mean that he's worthy of a top 10 pick. Sure, Bridgewater is probably better than Manuel, but I haven't seen anything that would make me think that he was anything special and most NFL analysts agree.
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No my quarrel is they have the texans picking a different QB even though many analyst have bridgewater as the most ready and #1 QB in the class. If the texans decide to choose a different position then fine, but if it is QB it should be Teddy.
The problem is, a lot don't have him as the top QB in this class. Part of the problem is that there is no true #1 QB in this class because all of the QB's have major flaws.
Wow, when someone like Bill Parcells is impressed with your football knowledge, that is a major stamp of approval.
True, but Teddy's flaws are from his leaner body. I don't think you can not draft a QB because he isn't built like a tank if he is elite from the mental stand point. Bill Parcells just came out and said he is intelligent, along with his coaches in college. I do not think you could go wrong with Teddy. At all.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/14/sports/west-coast-rivals-aikman-vs-peete-arm-to-arm-duel.html West Coast Rivals; Aikman vs. Peete: Arm-to-Arm Duel Spoiler By MALCOLM MORAN Published: November 14, 1988 LOS ANGELES— WILLIE PEETE remembered the evenings in a springtime of his son's youth, when the pace of a football coach's existence improved from overwhelming to merely demanding, and he brought home reels of film to prepare for situations that were months away. He was an assistant at the University of Arizona, turning celluloid images into charts of information about the opponents to come. As Peete worked at his home in Tucson, his young sons, Skip and Rodney, would turn from the television to pay attention. ''I would set the projector up in the dining room and show the pictures right on the wall,'' Willie Peete said. ''They would sit there and watch, and as they watched, they would start asking questions about certain things. Or certain things would come up on the film and I'd point things out to them. And every night I'd be there, they'd be sitting there watching.'' The education of Rodney Peete was beginning on a dining room wall in a house occupied by an Arizona Wildcat family. But he would eventually go to U.S.C. to become a Trojan. Troy Aikman, a child of Orange County, was going to be a baseball player. Even after an opportunity in the oil business led his father to move the family east to Henryetta, Okla., where football dominates the sporting landscape, Aikman's baseball skills were such that a number of teams, including the Mets, were interested in drafting him out of high school. ''They finally called me the night before the draft,'' Aikman recalled, ''and said they had to know what it would take before they could draft me. My parents had always stressed education and I wanted to go to college. So I told them some extraordinary figure that it would take for me to sign. So I didn't get drafted.'' Aikman fulfilled the duty of his adopted state and took a powerful throwing arm to Norman, to the University of Oklahoma, to become a Sooner. He wound up at U.C.L.A., a Bruin. Peete and Aikman have benefited from the rarest of circumstances for a college athlete. They have used their gifts to combine successfully the often uncontrollable factors of time and place and opportunity. They have stepped into strategic systems that are compatible with the skills each brings to the quarterback position. They have joined programs with the continuity of national exposure and success that can continue to attract the talent necessary for competition at the highest level of the college game. They have overcome serious injuries earlier in their careers. They have coped with evidence of expectations ranging from noisy dissatisfaction from the stands to the high hopes that followed outstanding junior seasons a year ago. And they have traveled hundreds of miles to converge on one historic place. When the Bruins and the Trojans compete for the 58th time Saturday afternoon at the Rose Bowl, Aikman and Peete will become the focus of a crosstown meeting with the greatest national significance since O. J. Simpson of U.S.C. and Gary Beban of U.C.L.A., both eventual Heisman Trophy winners, met in the 1967 game. The Trojans (9-0) and the Bruins (9-1) are ranked second and sixth, respectively, in The Associated Press's poll of reporters and broadcasters, second and sixth in the United Press International poll of coaches, and first and third in The New York Times's computer rankings. Aikman, at 6 feet 3 1/2 inches and 217 pounds, is a powerful drop-back passer with the ability to produce surprising runs. He has completed 63.4 percent of his passes this season, with a school-record 21 touchdown passes. He has had just seven passes intercepted in 279 attempts. Peete, at 6-2 and 195 pounds, has had an influence that extends beyond his 16 school records. He has added a dimension to a Trojan tradition of the last quarter-century that previously consisted of the Heisman-winning tailbacks Mike Garrett, Simpson, Charles White and Marcus Allen running variations of Student Body Right behind powerful offensive lines. ''At U.S.C.,'' wrote Jim Murray of The Los Angeles Times, ''the quarterback is the butler.'' That role has been altered by Peete's creativity, a process built from hours of film study, weeks of practice repetitions each fall, and years of the special discussions that only a coach's son can share. In an industry that creates heartbreaking circumstances each autumn in campus stadiums across the country, two senior quarterbacks cling to the chance for a Pacific-10 Conference championship, a spot in the Rose Bowl game, a chance to make an impact at the top of the polls after the bowl games of Jan. 2 and a place in Heisman history. ''If you had asked me 15 years ago when I first met him if I would be the head coach when he would be going towards the Heisman Trophy, it would be mind-boggling,'' said Larry Smith, the U.S.C. coach, who was an assistant with Willie Peete on the Arizona staff all those years ago. And who could have known what would happen when Terry Donohue, the U.C.L.A. coach, received a telephone call from Coach Barry Switzer of Oklahoma in the spring of 1986. Aikman, who had already grown dissatisfied as a passer in Oklahoma's run-minded approach, had also become expendable. Switzer was helping the quarterback find an alternative. Donohue remembered: ''He said, 'I guarantee you, when he leaves U.C.L.A., he'll be a first-round draft choice.' I told Barry, 'You've had enough first-round draft choices to know.' '' Troy Aikman was recruited at Oklahoma during the too-brief Marcus Dupree era, when the Sooners switched from their run-dominated wishbone scheme to the more balanced I-formation. Dupree, the highly-recruited running back, was to be its focal point. But he returned to Mississippi in his sophomore season before Aikman arrived, and the young quarterback soon felt out of place. ''When I went to O.U., they never ran one down in the I-formation,'' Aikman said. ''They didn't change the offense. We still ran the wishbone. We just ran a few more drop-back passes. . . . I didn't feel comfortable running the wishbone. I felt out of place. I was an unhappy player even when I was starting.'' In October 1986, during the second quarter of the fourth game of his sophomore season against Miami, everything began to change. Aikman had completed six of his first seven passes for 131 yards and a touchdown pass, and the game was tied, 7-7. Aikman was hit in the back of his left leg on a pass play. His fibula was broken. His season was over. And although he could not have known it, he had just suffered the most fortunate injury in recent college football history. When a remarkably quick and poised freshman named Jamelle Holieway replaced Aikman and went on to lead the Sooners to an Orange Bowl victory against Penn State and the championship position in the final polls, when the Sooner quarterback was scooting again and life in Norman was back to normal, Aikman's Oklahoma future became clear. As Aikman stood on a Miami sideline the night his friends won a championship, the sense of achievement all around was everywhere but inside. At home, the economy of the oil business had created the need for his father to return to California. Aikman's mother and two sisters remained in Oklahoma, but with his father in Riverside, not far from Los Angeles, a transfer to U.C.L.A. would not seem so awkward. The Bruins had not had a returning starter at quarterback since 1982. Aikman wanted the chance to correct a mistake. ''I had made a bad decision when I decided to go to O.U.,'' Aikman said. ''Not that I regret my decision, because I don't. I had a fun two years there, aside from football.'' When Rodney Peete was growing up in Tucson, his father recruited a quarterback named Bruce Hill who started for three seasons and had a successful career with the Wildcats. Bruce Hill happened to be black. ''Bruce being the quarterback at the University of Arizona really helped Rodney,'' Willie Peete said. The lack of opportunities at quarterback for black athletes was not an issue in the Peete household. ''We never really talked about that,'' the father said. ''Basically, what I talked to both my boys about was going out and being the best player you could be.'' ''I never got caught up into thinking that maybe I wouldn't be given a chance because I'm black,'' Rodney Peete said. ''Never. I always felt that I was good enough that people would give me the opportunity, and that's the way it has been throughout my life.'' Peete's mobility can provide just enough moments for a receiver to find an open area and turn a broken play into the type of gain that demoralizes a defense. The time he spent on college sidelines and practice fields as a youth provided a close look at how athletes responded to challenges. All those passing drills as a child, throwing to a brother who eventually played in the National Football League as a wide receiver, helped develop the proper touch for any situation. Peete set the 16th record of his U.S.C. career in the 50-0 victory over Arizona State on Saturday, a total of 377 yards rushing and passing that surpassed the previous record of 362 established by Paul McDonald in 1979. He became the sixth-leading passer in Pacific-10 Conference history on Saturday, and he needs 117 yards to pass Jim Plunkett and move into third place in total offense. He has completed 169 of 266 passes (63.5 percent) for 2,240 yards, 17 touchdowns, and just eight interceptions. The deadline for Heisman ballots was pushed back to include the U.S.C.-Notre Dame game on Nov. 26, giving Peete two more nationally-televised opportunities. An unofficial national championship is three victories away. And then, time and place and opportunity suddenly become less easily controlled. Will the growing presence of mobile professional quarterbacks help Peete receive a chance to direct an N.F.L. team? ''I don't want to play any other position,'' Peete said. ''I haven't played four years in college and all through high school as a quarterback to go to the N.F.L. and be a defensive back or a wide receiver.'' Should persuasion become necessary, there is always the baseball option. Peete batted .338 in 40 games as a third baseman for the Trojans last spring, with 12 home runs and 46 runs batted in. He turned down an offer to play in the minor league system of the Oakland Athletics because that would have prevented him from graduating with a degree in communications next spring. He plans to play a senior baseball season, wait for the N.F.L. and major league baseball drafts, and choose one game. ''It would be very easy for me if people were trying to discourage me from playing quarterback,'' Peete said. ''I'd be playing baseball in a second.'' These days, the fine points of football are communicated long distance, in telephone calls from Wisconsin, where Willie Peete is an assistant with the Green Bay Packers. The tape cassette of the most recent U.S.C. game, sent by a relative, arrives on Tuesday. The father begins to watch on Wednesday, jotting down the details to discuss on Thursday night. That curious child who studied images on a living room will take his knowledge to college football's greatest stages to compete for its highest stakes. For Peete's school to triumph in a business that presents so many turns of fate, it somehow makes sense that the Trojans will have to defeat a team led by a quarterback named Troy.
