EJay
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I had a lot of hope with Tua and boy did he flash at times but the concussion thing will not get better. It sucks but he needs to learn how to walk away.Not injuries. Repeated concussions.
Slimm is it safe to say that while you won't be writing up your comprehensive yearly rankings on all positions, you will be here in the draft form just commenting on players?
####....thats for my own selfish reasons....well, I wish you all good things in your future, apprciate the work and knowledge.:)Nope. I’m out brother. No longer will I exist in the realm of any football message board.
####....thats for my own selfish reasons....well, I wish you all good things in your future, apprciate the work and knowledge.:)
I am looking forward to the USC/Stanford game Sat night.
Tanner McKee might be the best pure passer in this Draft class.
Not the athlete the other top guys are and has little talent around him but he might be the most accurate passer in this very strong group.
I also think he'd fit Miami's system. Plus, McKee is projected as a third day pick. At least for now. Definitely an interesting prospect.I am looking forward to the USC/Stanford game Sat night.
Tanner McKee might be the best pure passer in this Draft class.
Not the athlete the other top guys are and has little talent around him but he might be the most accurate passer in this very strong group.
Slimm, where do you slot in Levis?
For me it's either Levis or Young at 2 - Stroud at 4.
I'd draft any of the Top 3 in the Top 10. Stroud had the best game of his life vs Georgia, but I still feel his odds of hitting and the payoff if he hits make him more of a Mac Jones than a Joe Burrow.
Richardson will have growing pains due to inexperience, but the instincts, playmaking, and tools are like a blend of Newton and Allen. His footwork in the pocket is pretty slick, and his release is quick and compact (much better than Newton's - somewhat similar to Allen's).
Would love it if he had 1,000 pass attempts, but Richardson puts a different kind of pressure on defenses. He can score with his legs from anywhere and get the ball anywhere you can dream. When you stretch a D like that, you have a much greater margin of error than other QB's. And, imo the concerns people have for Richardson would be legitimate if he wasn't a 0.001%'er with that huge margin for error.
As usual, you see what they don’t - and say what they won’t. I agree in regards to Richardson.
However, I’m not as sold on Young, Stroud, or Levis. I just think every quarterback in this draft is going to be over drafted - except Richardson.
Levis has critical flaws that are going to land him closer to being Chad Henne than Ryan Tannehill. He has the tools of a top 5-10 pick, just not the game.
Are Bryce Young and Chris Stroud better than Anthony Richardson today? Maybe so. But are they going to be better than Richardson in a year or two? I probably wouldn’t bet that way.
As always I respect your guys's opinions on the player.
But I'm not comfortable with Anthony Richardson at all as a guy that I would plan to be next franchise player. I could maybe be convinced to toss a 2nd or 3rd rounder out on the guy.
He gets compared to Josh Allen, but that's mostly because people are trying to explain why a guy can go from looking so bad at times to actually being an elite level pro. It's a biased exercise. Go re-watch Josh Allen games and then watch Anthony Richardson games, and it's like these two aren't even playing the same sport.
I see a loop in Richardson's throwing motion. Everyone's mileage may vary but I see a guy who drops the ball down to his waist. And while yeah this is something that could be corrected, the issue there is TO ME this loop seems like a source of his accuracy, a source of stability and consistency in his throwing motion. Almost like a a three-point shooter who uses his front leg kick as a tool for consistency in his timing and the motion of his jump shot. When I see Richardson lack the time or space to go into his loop, that's when the ball seems to start spraying around. So would you really want to correct something that's helping Richardson's accuracy? And on the flip side, can you trust him to fling the ball around without much time or space?
I think Richardson has a chance to develop. But you can say that about a million prospects. You have to satisfy yourself as to why you would bet that this will be one of the handful of humans who make it from Point A to Point B that way. I don't want to overthink it because defenses will be fearful of his mobility and his arm strength. But there's a ton of landscape between those two things that just looks...blank. He has a lot of ground to cover before you can even say he's playing the same game as pro quarterbacks, and that gives me a hell of a lot of pause.