I, like most of you, am worried that we're going to win too many games to get an impact QB in the draft. However, I think we'll end up with Barkley or RG3 because historically, QBs tend to drop a bit in the draft. 2005 - The debate for the #1 overall pick was between Alex Smith and Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers slipped all the way to #24 2006 - Matt Leinart was supposed to be a lock top-5 pick. He fell to #10. At the time, this was a big deal. 2007 - Brady Quinn fell to #22. I don't need to explain the circumstances to Dolphin fans! 2008 - Brian Brohm fell to #56. Many had him nabbed as a first rounder (boy, were they wrong!) 2009 - Nobody really slipped in 2009. 2010 - Jimmy Claussen slipped to #48. Colt McCoy slipped to #85. Both were highly touted. 2011 - 2011 completely bucked the trend, as most draft experts feel teams "reached" for guys like Christian Ponder. Right or wrong, that was the sentiment at the time. My point: I'm not gonna freak out about the final 4 games of the season negatively affecting our ability to secure a top-knotch QB prospect. We'll get an elite prospect. He may or may not pan out, but at least we'll be able to take a shot. Also, it helps that so many teams that are crappy now took a QB in last year's draft.
That's kind of a one-sided view. Aaron Rodgers' slide accompanied Alex Smith's rise. The year Matt Leinart went lower than some originally thought, both Vince Young and Jay Cutler went a lot higher than most originally thought. In 2008, Joe Flacco went far higher than people originally thought, and Matt Ryan was not a consensus top 5 pick in November/December. In 2009, Mark Sanchez rose to #5 overall. Back in December before that Draft, hardly anyone conceived that. In 2010, Tim Tebow actually went in the 1st round. Again, highly controversial, at LEAST as controversial as Christian Ponder going #12 overall, probably more so. And as much as 2011 "bucked the trend", Ryan Mallett fell precipitously down the boards becoming yet another in the line of guys you mentioned like Aaron Rodgers, Brady Quinn and Jimmy Clausen. The adage says that running backs always fall. But quarterbacks usually rise. That's what they do. You didn't go back far enough. Back in 2004, nobody thought of Phil Rivers as a 1st round pick let alone a high 1st round pick back in December prior to that Draft. And J.P. Losman was a controversial 1st round pick that a lot of people didn't agree with.
Landry Jones is this year's dropper IMO (possibly into the 20's and beyond), and Tannehill will be the riser. RG3 ends up going before Barkley.
Teams found out he was dumb, which was not only evidenced in the classrooms, but with his decision making. Plus, lacking intangibles.
Wow, I did not know this. I remember him being hyped up and all of a sudden he disappeared off he face of the earth.
Just saying. There are players in the NFL that are fairly openly gay. And what I mean by "fairly open" is sort of a don't ask, don't tell detente...wherein anyone that visits the guy's facebook page or does a little digging is going to find out, but nobody talks about it. However, I'm not sure quarterback, with the media scrutiny that those guys go through, is one of those positions where that could happen right now. It's sad, but I really do believe it to be true. Not that I think Jevan Snead would have been a franchise quarterback regardless.
I don't count Mark Sanchez as one of the guys that is openly gay. He might be closet bisexual but he did just recently get in trouble for banging a 17 year old girl he met at a club.
