I live in Big Ten country and have seen quite a bit of Stanzi. I've just never understood why he's viewed so highly by some people. I will give him decent mobility and ability to move around in the pocket. But I do not like his arm strength. Those balloon soft lobs that he throws just will not cut it against NFL speed.
If nothing else, we need someone special at qb, not another of these run of the mill guys.
Yeah. Well, there were many places that considered Jake Locker for shoe-in for top QB status, until they caught up to me. And there were many places that considered Cam Newton a borderline 1st/2nd rounder, until they caught up to me on that one. So what are they going to catch up to me on next?
Listen, if I wasn't comfortable making evaluations on my own that can stand quite apart from the rest of the crowd, I wouldn't do so. I'm pretty comfortable with that. So when someone comes at me on one of my opinions and says yeah but so and so rates the guy this way, I don't know what you expect me to say. You expect me to change my mind? If I change my mind, it's for my reasons, like I recently began changing my mind on Nate Enderle, because I'm tired of the bad decision making which keeps showing up over and over and over again.
Hey CK, have you ever kept record of your hits and misses over the past couple of years???
I'd be curious to see what your success rate has been.. as I really enjoy reading your perspective.
That's a nice comparison to be sure. If Stanzi works as hard as Brady and gets in the right situation I think he will definitely exceed expectations much like Brady did.Let's compare this (Highlights of Tom Brady at the University of Michigan):
[video=youtube;TM7Q4y1trtM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM7Q4y1trtM[/video]
To this (Highlights of Ricky Stanzi at the University of Iowa):
[video=youtube;4x2UUWgv1NQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x2UUWgv1NQ[/video]
Any thoughts???
Their style of play is very similar in my eyes. The only significant difference I can discern is Stanzi's slight size advantage in the thighs/calves, something Brady has obviously improved since going pro.
Obviously neither one was Elway at Stanford or Marino at Pitt. However, I think it is worth spending a third or fourth-rounder on Stanzi to see if he can make the same translation to the pros that Brady did...