2014 NFL draft thread (no longer too early)

Damn, the Panthers have had a pretty terrible draft.

 

No QB makes chicken salad out of chicken shit more than Roethlisberger. But he also has a way to make chicken shit out of chicken salad, but the former far outweighs the latter.

 

Bill O'Brien finally tagged a QB of the future late in Round 4.

Tom Savage. *facepalm*

 

Savage seemed to get a lot of buzz the last month or so. I thought he was going to go higher.

 

Of course you are correct. But I also get LTL's point, even if he didn't say it as well as he could have. Kaepernick has led the Niners to the conference title game in both years as a starter. You don't just dump a guy like that, no matter how bad the sophomore slump. And it really wasn't that bad. You have no idea if Bridgewater (or any other rookie QB) will pan out. Not even close to worth the risk.

 

Leading a team to the conference championship game two years in a row doesn't mean much. Mark Sanchez did that. Kaepernick has shown more than Sanchez did, but there are better ways to illustrate it.

 

So Mark Sanchez did it, so any quarterback can do it. Got it. I'm not saying Kaepernick is even a top-5 quarterback in the league, but if the team is having success with him behind center you don't just dump him for an unproven commodity.

 

Sanchez is a great example. Jets had 2 good years with Sanchez as game manager
and then they signed him to big contract that set them back years,

 

No. You didn't get it. You were too busy going for the snark to try to get it.

You are right there with the folks who think that won-loss record is a good way to evaluate a quarterback. It is not. It is a lazy and inaccurate way to measure a quarterback. If you evaluate a quarterback solely based on team success, you are doomed to failure. As Boom just wrote, that is exactly what Sanchez helps to demonstrate.

 

Just heard a great stat: 42 players who were on rosters for 2011 Bama-LSU game have now been drafted.

 

That is absolutely remarkable. But those other two starters must have been real slackers.

 

Disagree. The guy has the physical skills, he just needs a lot of good coaching. Maybe he'll get that. Worth a gamble with a late-round pick.