LOL, it's not that I "hate" it, it's that I disagree with it. He'll if I thought there was a 50% chance that Bridgewater would become a top 10 QB in the NFL, I'd be all for picking him too. I remember a draft where quite a few people were just dead wrong Rivers was fairly upset the Texans picked Watt and didn't trade down that year.
When do the Gruden QB Camps come along? I'm anxiously awaiting them. I think Teddy will be the best and Bortles will be skmehwat behind him, and Manziel will be quite a ways behind the two.
Ha ha! Hat tip to you, good sir. I remember being so pissed because Robert Quinn was the highest guy on my board. I was wrong about Watt, but right about Quinn, clearly. Good burn though.
LOL, I was hoping you wouldn't go back and find some of the posts where I was WAY off base. It happens to us all on a long enough time line. Who knows? Maybe Bridgewater really is the next coming of Joe Montana and someone will be re-posting some of the things I've said this off-season in 3 or 4 years.
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Saw this posted by revan at Texans Talk http://insiderlouisville.com/news/20...ng-elementary/ IL: What about your offense helped prepare Teddy for the pros? Watson: The offense is based on the quarterback being a decision maker and a game manager. When they watch Teddy, they can see those things on film. It’s a full-field read offense. You have to have a deep understanding of coverages and defensive football. When you see Teddy play, you see him using all of his throws. We did throw some bubble screens or perimeter screens, but the majority of his work is being done off a five-step or seven-step drop or a deep play-action drop. Or blowing the ball down the field and attacking the deep coverage. By and large, that’s what the NFL game is. The next aspect I think they saw was his ability to manage the check game at the line of scrimmage (calling audibles). The quarterback has got to be able to beat the defensive coordinator at the line of scrimmage and eliminate any perfect defensive calls. He did a beautiful job of readjusting our protections. He was the perfect student for the system, with the perfect skill set. IL: How difficult will it be for Bridgewater to learn an actual NFL offense? Watson: I don’t know if the systems are that much more complicated. One of the misnomers out there is that people think football has to be hard. The great systems with the elite coaches, they aren’t going to be hard. They are going to be simplistic. They are going to let the quarterback play fast. The big adjustment is that the defenses are going to be more challenging. … Those windows get so tight. That will be the difference for him. And there’s a different level of speed involved – warp speed, above even high-level college ball. Another huge part of the transition for a college quarterbacks is you’re always going to play in a disrupted pocket. Teddy has great pocket awareness. We drilled him very hard on creating protections and passing lanes in the pocket. He was a natural at it. He is the best I’ve ever coached at that. Very, very unique. That speaks to him being a great student of the game. IL: Brian Billick, another Teddy fan, very cautiously compared him to another slightly built quarterback named Joe Montana. Watson: That’s the It factor I’m talking about. He has a natural feel for the game. The game goes very, very slow for him. In the middle of this hurricane, he is the eye, the cool and the calm and the poise. He brings creativity to the game. He can create outside of the parameters of the offense. And he’s a great competitor. … When lights got big, he was the brightest light on the field. The Sugar Bowl. Miami. The game against Rutgers, when he was really hurt. In Morgantown, when he was a freshman. He has It. IL: Where do you see him in five years? Watson: In five years, my man Teddy is going to be in that top group of quarterbacks in the NFL. He will find his way there. It’s just in him. There’s no doubt. That’s just who he is. L: Some say Teddy hurt himself at the NFL Combine by not throwing or running and measuring at less than 6 feet 3, his listed height at U of L. Watson: Well, who’s saying it? At this time of year, it’s just the game that gets played. If it’s a pro team that’s saying it, they might just be trying to put the okey-doke on somebody, throwing them off the trail. … I get to have a different conversation than the TV analysts. I’m talking to people who are really making the decisions, and I don’t get that feeling at all (that Bridgewater’s stock is falling). They’re not showing their hand to me, but the things they say back to me about what they see in his play and from his interviews, he has shown very well.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/spo...php?t=0cd0a78cb9b05374ef&t=0cd0a78cb927862370 Throughout a tape breakdown of Bridgewater against the Cougars, Gibbs kept saying, "See, that's exactly what they ask NFL quarterbacks to do," or "That's just what they coached him to do." Bridgewater ran Louisville's full-field read, West Coast system with such command that it is obvious he was in complete control of what happened on the field, from changing plays at the line of scrimmage to determining protection schemes for the offensive line. Not that other college quarterbacks can't learn to do it; Bridgewater already has done it. "He had a check system with a myriad of options and he always had the ability to check out of a bad play, from run-to-run, run-to-pass, pass-to-run, whatever," former Louisville offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Shawn Watson said. "And we had the same kill system used in the NFL. "My job was to try to beat the defensive coordinator Sunday-Thursday. I gave him the chalk to beat the defensive coordinator on Saturday. He would go out there and orchestrate it, and he did an unbelievable job. The most efficient QB I've ever had." Bridgewater, who earned his college degree in three years, was so proficient in the Cardinals' offense that offensive line coach Dave Borbely once asked him to teach the protections to the line. "He wanted his players to know the offense like Teddy, because he knew every detail," said Watson, who is now part of former Louisville coach Charlie Strong's staff at Texas. "Players said to him that 'hearing (Teddy) talk was like listening to you talk.'"
Get to know your next QB, Texans fans: http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-draft/0ap2000000334223/First-Draft-Teddy-Bridgewater
Don't worry, if he turns out to be the next Joe Montana/Aaron Rodgers/God like some think he will then I'll admit to being completely wrong about him, but unfortunately there won't be anything that could happen before the draft to change my mind about him.
No, it really wasn't, because no one talked them up as the greatest QB's to ever play the game as prospects. That kind of ridiculousness has been reserved for Bridgewater (PBUH) fanatics.
