http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...s-agent-responds-to-report-of-shaky-workouts/ We are ALL getting played here Bridgewater only had ONE workout prior to the one he has today
20 would have been the lowest wonderlic of starting quarterbacks last year. Tied with Jake Locker. It would also have been the lowest of quarterbacks you'd want on your team by a bigger margin. If you eliminate the dual threat quarterbacks and just compare Teddy to pocket passing quarterbacks you'd actually want he's about 1 standard deviation lower than the next lowest QB. (SD comes out to roughly 5ish, he's 5 lower than Big Ben) 20 is an "average" score for the NFL as a whole maybe, but many other positions heavily emphasizes pure athleticism over intelligence. It's a low as hell score for a quarterback. Get over it, he's dumb.
Keep telling yourself that Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, Bradshaw and Montana would love for you to call them dumb in there face GTFO of here
How about some quarterbacks who don't have vivid memories of the LBJ administration? The game is completely different. It's a passing league and offenses are more complex than ever. Bridgewater would literally be the lowest Wonderlic starting quarterback in the NFL. And that's a guy whose only selling point is his supposed intelligence. If he was a physical beast like Cam (21) then fine, but he isn't. He's a skinny small handed OKish height guy who played in a ****ty conference. There's nothing remarkable about him.
why do you trust a wonderlic score over coaches and personnel raving about his intelligence? You call him dumb, I call you dumb for basing your opinion on a wonderlic test.
What a clown HAHAHAHAHA Do you know that LBJ admin was during the sixties???? And you have the gall to critique one's wonderlic score?????
1. Coaches and personnel aren't going to give you unbiased evaluations of their players. They don't want to damage the careers of people they worked with for multiple years and they don't want potential recruits thinking their coach is going to hurt their potential draft stock. 2. Standardized tests are much better indicators of intelligence than the opinions of coaches/personnel etc. Bridgewater's wonderlic and his college admissions test score were both comparably low. If one were significantly lower then that would probably indicate a lack of effort.
when people raved about his intelligence it has ALWAYS been about football. the kid graduated early with some filler degree in sports administration. no one was pegging the guy as some poindexter with a 4.0 GPA, earning a BS in engineering. its the folks here with the agendas trying to disprove the kid is smart.. what exactly about a wonderlic proves that a qb will be successful on sundays? we just signed the "smartest" qb in the league in fitz, peyton scored almost half fitz' score, josh freeman scored 1 point below peyton, sanchez scoresd a 28 like peyton. so josh and mark must be able to understand a defense and nfl playbook like peyton right? if only peyton had the smarts fitzpatrick has..
No one has said that there's a linear relationship between intelligence and NFL QB success. But again: Bridgewater would literally be the lowest Wonderlic starting QB in the NFL and substantially below non dual threat quarterbacks. O'Brien's system is much more complex than anything at Louisville. Ignoring his real world stupidity and banking on him being football rainman with a 1st overall pick is Kool-Aid drinking, plain and simple.
This is true. Blaine Gabbert - 42 Alex Smith - 40 Eli Manning - 39 Matt Flynn - 38 Colin Kaepernick - 38 Matt Stafford - 38 Andrew Luck - 37 Tony Romo - 37 Sam Bradford - 36 Christian Ponder - 35 Aaron Rodgers - 35 Ryan Tannehill - 34 Tom Brady - 33 Matt Ryan - 32 Matt Schaub - 31 Phillip Rivers - 30 Andy Dalton - 29 Nick Foles - 29 Drew Brees - 28 Kevin Kolb/ EJ Manuel - 28 Peyton Manning - 28 Mark Sanchez - 28 Russell Wilson - 28 Joe Flacco - 27 Josh Freeman - 27 Brandon Weeden - 27 Jay Cutler - 26 Carson Palmer - 26 Ben Roethlisberger - 25 RGIII - 24 Cam Newton - 21 Jake Locker - 20 http://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1hfmp1/wonderlic_scores_for_each_teams_starting_qb/
Imo, maybe calling it "football intelligence" is a mistake. "football acumen" or something similar might be better. What Bridgewater has is an ability to tune out all the "noise" and isolate the property of the other team he needs to key on. The actual traditional intelligence involved in running through a checklist and making the correct choice is negligible. If not for the noise of an actual football game going on all around, it's not much more taxing than the kind of "see a symbol, press a lever" type of stuff that lab rats do. "Normal" intelligence is an issue with respect to learning the playbook, but still doesn't require abstract thinking. Think back to high school, especially all the classes that were about memorizing facts. I'm sure everybody remembers that one person who you really wouldn't describe as especially smart, but who got some of the best grades. That person made up for lack of top tier intelligence with hard work and determination to succeed. The thing that Teddy has is the ability to tune out noise and make the correct read. That is not a small thing. There are plenty of successful college QB's who fail in the NFL because they can never master that skill.
Spot on Many qbs with wonderlic scores in the high 30s and 40s that were never able to "tune out the noise and make the correct read" in the NFL
Also people don't understand (or rather to stupid to understand) is that the wonderlic test is not an IQ test. IQ test test for pattern recognition which is the fundamental indicator of one's intelligence. All the wonderlic test for is a person's test taking capability and their education background.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>After 2 weeks of intense training in S. Florida, I watched client Teddy Bridgewater put on an accuracy, velocity & footwork show this am</p>— Ken Mastrole (@MastrolePassing) <a href="https://twitter.com/MastrolePassing/statuses/455126487713456128">April 12, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
