You are very persuasive with your evaluation on Weeden. I was just wondering what other QB prospects have you been high on in the past. Hits and misses?? Just curious? I definately wouldn't have paid this much attention to Weeden without some of your arguments, so I definately agree with hoops that you should get a cut of Weeden's salary lol.
I'm pretty forthcoming about my history. I can only go back so far because once you go back a certain distance in time, either I wasn't really evaluating QBs at all, or my process was so ridiculously immature compared with now that if today I were confronted with the me from back then, I would laugh in my own past self's face. Just being honest.
The first list is the QBs I LOVED. Think of my posts about Weeden. Think how much I rant about him, how it's kind of funny, some people kid about it, etc. We're talking thousands of words written about these guys, accusations of almost homosexual man-love (in jest...I hope...), etc.
The next is a LIKED category. This means I was positive on this guy, to the point where I fully accepted his draft position and thought it was justified. For example, I liked Matt Stafford. I thought he was for sure the #1 QB in that Draft, and I thought if you needed a QB then him being the #1 pick is not a problem. But I didn't LOVE him. I didn't constantly defend him or rave about him, I didn't think he was "once in a decade" or "once in a few years", etc. I thought Mike Singletary's criticism of him was ludicrous and defended that a lot but I also admitted he's not the #1 overall type guy that a Carson Palmer was, etc.
The next category is an ABSTAINED category. This doesn't mean I disliked the guy, it means I didn't even try to get a handle on him, I didn't even evaluate him...for whatever reason. This is a tricky category because in some cases I don't even try on a guy because he doesn't stand out to me to where I wanted to jump in and really evaluate him to where I could build him up or tear him down. Eli Manning was an example of this, didn't really stand out to me as being worth his hype, but at the same time there were definitely skills there, and I just didn't want to take on that task. I decided to let him be. Sometimes when a guy is in that #1 overall category, I just don't have as much interest. But also in some cases I don't try on a guy just...well, let's call it laziness. Josh Freeman, Kevin O'Connell and Joe Flacco are perfect examples of the latter. Either I just didn't HAVE the tape to study those guys, or I didn't bother even trying to get it.
Then there's the HATED category. These were almost all high round guys that many people loved that I ranted against on an almost constant basis. These are guys I just felt didn't deserve their draft status, that I just found myself arguing against a whole lot. I do feel like "hate" is a strong word because in many cases, like with Kaepernick as an example, I just recognized there was a lot to like about him and maybe he's even a guy you WANT to root for, but I still just felt he was overrated and felt compelled to keep pointing out the flaws that other people weren't seeing or acknowledging.
And finally, there's the STABS category, this is just a bunch of stabs I've taken at low round guys that might be worth more than people think. I don't think this category should be evaluated like the other categories because these are not high round guys at all, they're stabs in the dark. If you've even got a 10% on these kinds of guys, IMO that's like a ridiculous win percentage considering the kinds of guys you're rating here. At this point you're really only evaluating these guys as probably valid backups at best. But my conviction in them is not a constant. You know, I raved about a Mike Kafka, Nate Davis or Colt Brennan a lot more than a James Pinkney.
LOVED: Cam Newton, Ryan Mallett, T.J. Yates, Sam Bradford, Brady Quinn, John Beck, Jay Cutler, Aaron Rodgers, Phil Rivers
LIKED: Blaine Gabbert, Christian Ponder, Matthew Stafford, Matt Ryan, Brian Brohm, Matt Leinart, Kellen Clemens, Brodie Croyle, Jason Campbell, Ben Roethlisberger, Matt Schaub
ABSTAINED: Colt McCoy, Josh Freeman, Joe Flacco, Kevin O'Connell, Kevin Kolb, Drew Stanton, Tarvaris Jackson, Alex Smith, Andrew Walter, David Greene, Charlie Whitehurst, Eli Manning
HATED: Jake Locker, Andy Dalton, Colin Kaepernick, Tim Tebow, Jimmy Clausen, Mark Sanchez, Pat White, Chad Henne, Jamarcus Russell, Trent Edwards, Vince Young, Charlie Frye, J.P. Losman
STABS: Nate Enderle, Adam Froman, Ben Chappell, Tony Pike, Levi Brown, Mike Kafka, Thaddeus Lewis, Tyler Sheehan, Stephen McGee, Nate Davis, Josh Johnson, Colt Brennan, Matt Flynn, Troy Smith, Jeff Rowe, Matt Moore, James Pinkney, Brett Ratliff, Omar Jacobs, Reggie McNeal, Barrick Nealy, Kyle Orton, Matt Mauck