MU's Gabbert Goes Pro/Year of the QB-- NFL Draft Thread 11

And the spread sucks. It makes decent teams good, but it never makes a team great.

My offensive line and running backs are better and stronger than your defensive line and linebackers works pretty much every time.

 

Which Spread ? There are many permutations.

Problem I see with Newton is his ability to make sophisticated reads.

The system he ran at Auburn was pretty simple. Most of his pass plays were set up off zone read. A lot of his passes were simple bubble screens to his X or Y receivers. In NFL DB's will jump those type of routes.

 

Any spread that makes a team thinks that passing the football is better than running the football.

In doses, the spread is fine. But if it is pages 1-10 in the playbook, then your team will have problems when the weather gets cold.

 

Not trying to be argumentative, but what would you call what the Super Bowl champs ran last year?

 

I would term what Auburn did as a "run" spread.
Boise State faired pretty well in their spread in cold weather as did Oregon.

 

Didn't Newton run more than he passed?

 

Might even be Christian Ponder or Andy Dalton. Those guys are worth taking a chance on later in the draft.

 

An offense that was handed the ball over and over by the opposing team.

Sorry to thread jack.

 

Gets cold can mean two things. It can mean snow and it can mean the playoffs.

 

And Roethlisberger threw 495 passes his senior year in college. It does not mean their pro team will run the same offense as the college team.

Steve McNair played in a pretty conservative offense in the pros, but he was still a heck on an NFL player even though he was a do everything in college.

 

Yes sir. Point well taken.

 

But you do have a point. I think Newton would be a hell of an NFL QB. Would I want him running the Steelers? I'm not sure.

From the second I saw him play, he reminded me of a bigger, stronger Randall Cunningham, who was a very good NFL QB, but ringless.