2013 NFL draft running thread

Marino had more going for him than the ridiculously strong arm. It was the quick release that made him damn near unstoppable at times, especially in the pros. You just couldn't get to the guy quickly enough.

Compared to Smith as a passer, it's not close. Not just arm strength, but accuracy on the deep ball and the fast release.

Questions about his intelligence? That's not impossible. I still think the drug question had more to do with it.

Smith is not a first-round talent. He wasn't taken in the first round. In a year with a relatively weak first round, no way a first-round quarterback went in the second.

 

The scouting report from Pro Football Weekly is the one that proved to be damaging to Smith. It had
some really inside stuff that really only a coach would know. I am thinking that the coach behind the
story was Jake Spavital who was WVU QB coach and just recently left for Texas A & M.

 

All you need to know is that every team in the league had a chance to get him, but the Jets did. Jets = KOD

 

And clearly had no idea they wanted him until day 2. On day 1 plan was for QB was to have a competition between Garrard and Sanchez.
It all changed overnight.

 

um, no, it doesnt... smith's passing yardage was boosted tremendously by YAC -- yards after catch by his receivers. that's been the primary poing for those who call 'b.s' on smith's other-wordly, video-game calibre completion percentage, td-int ratio, etc. the guy may tun out to become a terrifc nfl qb -- but he clearlyy has much further to go than those coing from a more nfl-styled offense. but, hey, that issue will now be resolved by him, on the field, not by us nitpicking away -- the draft is over. smith went later than he hoped for a variety of reasons, many listed on this thread. now it's up to... the draft is full of second-round failures and success stories, of guys who whined about not going in round 1 and proved the cynics wrong, and others who learned the nfl is a place where they were in way over their heads.

the most successful guys r usually the ones most respectful of the process who acknowledge from the get-go they dont know spit. those who delude themselves into thinking it's just the easy next step, like going from h.s. to college, are quickly exposed and humbled.

 

Shockey, please be more careful with the quote function. I wasn't the one who wrote that about Marino and Smith.

 

Good article on how an agent can effect draft slot of client:

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/5/6/4293752/nfl-draft-2013-justin-pugh-new-york-giants-andy-ross

 

Was going to post the exact same thing with the exact same guy. Watched a lot of 60 yard TD passes from Couch in college that were really 8 yard passes to Craig Yeast that Yeast ran 52 yards after the catch. Didn't understand then why so may pro scouts didn't see that.

And I would love to see a source on Wonderlic = IQ, particulary where that formula came from.

One final point, I think intelligence matters in a QB today much more than it did 30 years ago, because defense in the NFL is so much more about deception and tricks etc. than it used to be.