LOL, in a few years that'll sound very funny. "If you have Alex Smith at the helm, you would forget that we passed on Julius Peppers"
If Alexis Smith had Bridgewater's accuracy and timing skills, the niners (previous Smith team) would have won the superbowl
The more I listen to people talk about the QB's in this draft, the more I'm thinking any QB is a risk not worthy of the #1 pick.
I think people would be hard pressed to find any scout or serious analyst who thinks that Teddy Bridgewater is the top prospect in this draft class. In fact, I don't think I've heard anyone say that at all. I've heard "best QB" but never "best prospect". Only in the minds of some Texans fans is he that good.
Well considering thats what the scouts and analyst say, I don't think so. You are underrating Bridgewater big time
You're basing your opinion off of that of others pundits though. Put it this way: as soon as it became clear houston was gonna get the #1 pick, everyone started to pna all the original favorites for it. Bridgewater, Clowney. Now instead who are they propping up? Manziel and Bortles. It's clear there's a bad case of NE media bias going on, and the powers that be are doing their best job to make sure that team from crappy Houston winds up with the next Jamarcus Russell so we can continue being the national laughingstock everyone wants us to be. If the Giants had the #1 pick, I guarantee you right now Bridgewater and Clowney would be hyped up beyond Andrew Luck and Von Miller. What happened to that talk by Jeff Saturday about Clowney being better than Watt? It's all part of the massive media BS machine, and you're best off ignoring all of it. Just hope that we hired the right guy in OBrien to see thru all this crap. In the end his opinion is the only one that counts.
I think that's more than a little paranoid, they are pushing several QB's because there isn't a legitimate QB prospect worth the first pick so they are trying to invent one and they can't settle on any one prospect because they are all very flawed in different ways. Suggesting the Texans will pick one of these QB's first overall is insulting to the intelligence of the organization IMO.
It's all spin. I dunno how you can listen to a respected scout go through his scouting progressions, say that Bridgewater "checks all the boxes" of being a great pocket passer, have no legit criticism whatsoever regarding his ability to read NFL defenses and put the ball where it needs to go while not only being impervious to but actually thriving under blitzes, and then all of a sudden revert to the group think and knock him down just because the size or 40 time or maximum mph on his ball just aren't there. It's asinine, and I've never heard anything like it before. Bridgewater will be a rock star at the next level and everyone else doesn't want us to get him. Period. Most scouts don't have the balls to say it, and a few out there are actively trying to sabotage his stock. You think Bill Polian likes the Texans? Of course not. The only tv pundit in our circle is that dumbass Casserley, and frankly he's only allowed to say his peace because it further perpetuates that image the nation has of us being underbred overly nepotic podunk cowboys.
Well again, there are legit criticisms of Teddy B that go beyond the fact that his frame will leave him injury prone his entire career. He has accuracy issues on intermediate to deep routes, the "thriving under blitzes" is only the case when he's blitzed but not actually pressured which is because he played BS competition for almost all of his college career, his numbers when he was pressured weren't as good as Bortles' numbers when he was pressured. Just because no one else shares the crush on Teddy Bridgewater with a small, very loud minority of the Texans fanbase doesn't mean it's a big conspiracy.
my only concern with Manziel, is if he can stay on the field, and not injured. I think he will get a lot of hits, and being sidelined, I think he can play, but idk. Im ok with Bridgewater, or Clowney + Garoppolo
http://podcast.footballguys.com/2014/Footballguys-Audible-2014-Vol16a.mp3 Deep balls are no issue He makes NFL passes under pressure, Bortles is routinely throwing the screen
There's no reason to start a random podcast competition, I'm sure both of us can come up with random podcasts saying pretty much anything. I know you are on the Teddy bandwagon which means that you think that he can do no wrong, but try to be understanding as to why the rest of the world disagrees.
Explains that Bridgewater's deepball issues lie within the offense Facts tend to get in the way of your mindset
It's one random podcast, I could show you half a dozen scouting reports that don't blame all of his deficiencies on others. I guess it comes down to what story you want to believe, either that he is actually a flawed QB prospect and the vast majority of scouts and analysts are right, or that he's the next Aaron Rodgers and it's a conspiracy to cover it up.
