LOL, it's the test's fault that Teddy failed. The 40 was culturally biased against him as well, as was the pro day routine.
Of course he is not the fastest QB and yeah he had an average pro day. That's part of why he dropped a little for me. Still Gruden said he did much better at his camp and when he was pressed about Bridgewater's IQ he said that Teddy was one of the top 3 or 4 QB's his had through his camp. As for as the wonderlic goes, it's mostly useless. It definitely has a cultural bias. It's why whites average 22 on it, latinos average 17 and blacks average 16. Unless you think blacks and latinos are just not as smart as white people. Bridgewater may not be as culturally diverse are speak the complexed sentence structure used in the wonderlic as well as Blake Bortles or Johnny Manziel do but on the field his mind is a whip. He speaks the language of football and eats up west coast offense concepts like no wonderlic test can measure. Smart football people that spend time with him see it. And if you watch the film you can see it too. Still he has some long ball throwing issues and his glove thing bothers me a little. But if pressed I would still probably take him first. And I think the Texans are still considering in spite of what you are many on here think. I definitely believe he will be gone top ten unlike some on here and first QB taken. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/CNHw0jAbuPA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/PDxsAwpM2YE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> I didn't understand any of this, seems like a bright kid but of coarse I don't understand football terminology too well...
What was your wonderlic? You could be Joe Montana despite your lack of football terminology knowledge. amirite?
Texan's don't fall for the okie doke!!!! http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...lly-torpedoing-teddy-bridgewaters-draft-stock Watch the second video to. Interesting Bortles Comments.
The Texans may be a part of the effort to torpedo Bridgewater's (and Manziel's) value so they can trade up late in the first round a grab him.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The more I read "unnamed execs" disparaging Clowney and Bridgewater the more I'm convinced a lot of teams really like them. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23games&src=hash">#games</a></p>— Andrew Brandt (@adbrandt) <a href="https://twitter.com/adbrandt/statuses/456088303113371648">April 15, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
There is a ~1 standard deviation white/black IQ gap in America. The white/hispanic gap is slightly smaller. There is also an asian/white gap. If there were a larger number of east asians declaring for the draft you'd see that group score higher than whites. The closer the given test is to a "real" IQ test (the higher its g loading) the closer you would expect the gap to be to roughly one standard deviation. Cultural bias has nothing to do with it. The highest g loaded tests (pattern recognition/manipulation) obviously have no cultural bias and show larger gaps than lower g loading tests which could more plausibly have some degree of cultural bias. The wonderlic is a mediocre IQ test but Bridgewater's results on it are in line with his low ACT score. See the American Psychological Association's "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns" or the "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" document for the view of psychometricians/psychologists and others who do intelligence research academically. Gruden fellates every prospect every year.
Bridgewater is the most clutch qb in the class and the best under pressure and when blitzed He isn't dropping past 5
Clutch is just a statistical anomaly and it's something usually used to defend indefensible players like Tim Tebow. Don't do that to Bridgewater. Also, your "best under pressure" reference is simply inaccurate and you know it. He's the best when blitzed, but not when pressured, the reason for the disparity is because he played such a weak schedule that even when blitzed, he wasn't pressured very often. The best QB by the numbers when pressured was Bortles, and all things factored in such as strength of opposition, Manziel was the best under pressure. Again though, you know all of this.
As to him dropping, I could see it, he hasn't really shown any reason why he should be picked that high other than "Look what I did against Eastern Kentucky" or "I was almost as awesome against Miami as Logan Thomas last year"
