Gene Hackman (Under Suspicion, Enemy of the State) plays the coach of one of the teams, and he assembles a ragtag group, including a washed up superstar
college QB (Reeves, The Matrix), an ex-con RB (Jace, Cradle 2 the Grave), and a bunch of others who have lots of raw talent but not the ability to have made it pro.
Cardale Jones is good if you like your QB to be electrifying I guess, but In my day a dual - threat
college QB was a guy who could pass a pigskin just as well as he passed a final exam.
Allowing the majority of
college QB's and WR's to earn a spot foul deep down the field for a pass that was unlikely to be complete is excessive.
Kellen was a legendary
college QB, but thats college and his offensive scheme allowed him to have better numbers than his NFL play would suggest.
With zero live game experience it's next to impossible for us as outsiders to truly gauge Trask's level of «goodness» as
a college QB.
But he has shown that he can play in the NFL and none of
the college QB's in the draft has shown that.
Again, Leinart competed against a top
college QB in a game that decided a spot in the title game.
Sometimes it's fun to think back to when he was nothing but the country's most famous backup
college QB.
I hope that the Broncos have learned their lesson at this point and are asking
college QBs, «If things don't work so well at QB, would you rather play H - back / tight end, or play minor league baseball?»
The game went how you would expect when two great
college QBs, one coached by David Cutcliffe and the other by Hal Mumme, meet.
The full list is here but there's a rogue's gallery of
college QBs on that list.
There's a handful of really good QBs after that (Ryan, Newton, Stafford, Ben, Luck, A. Smith etc.) that did start right away, but were all older, more experienced
college QBs that were expected to be really good and as such taken very high in their respective drafts.
The sophomore QB will be one of the best
college QBs in the nation.
Is not the point of all this to look at the completion percentages of the current college prospects measured against their current college counterparts and
college QBs of recent years past to get an idea if they have the requisite accuracy to be a viable NFL QB?
Completion percentage of
college QBs rarely goes up in the pros.
Not exact matches
Picking
QBs from
college has become very speculative.
watch Mahomes tape in
college and you are likely to ask «how is he still on the board» Watch allens tape and you will say «WTF why is he a top
QB prospect»
That there was a
QB in this draft, unknown, just a generic
QB, who played big - time D1A
college football, completed 71 % of his passes in 2017, a higher percentage than any other D1A
QB being considered in RD's 1 & 2, while simultaneously throwing more downfield passes than any other
QB being seriously considered in D1A, and that his overall numbers were astounding; 4,627 Yards Passing in in a
college season, not a 17 Game NFL season, with 43 TD Passes compared to only 6 INT's.
Stats don't tell the whole story of a draft prospect's future performance — since a few of these
QBs with rough final
college seasons had pro success — and I'm by no means saying Allen isn't worthy of being a successful quarterback in the league.
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QB recruit Tommy DeVito, who is all - in with the Syracuse Orange.
I mean, most
QBs end up as busts, but it really feels like taking the 6» 5» guy with a big arm who couldn't win in
college just because he looks the part is a really classic way to draft a bust.
All are versions of a dual threat
QB which you need to win in
college.
Most
college programs want to carry four on scholarship, which means most schools will sign a
QB every year.
I have not kept up with the draft this year like I did in years past 19: R1P19 ILB REGGIE RAGLAND ALABAMA 49: R2P18 OLB SU'A CRAVENS USC 80: R3P17 DE CHARLES TAPPER OKLAHOMA 117: R4P19
QB CARDALE JONES OHIO STATE 139: R4P41 WRF WILHELM BOEHRINGER GERMANY 156: R5P17 DE MEHDI ABDESMAD BOSTON
COLLEGE 192: R6P17 DE AZIZ SHITTU STANFORD 218: R6P43 OLB TRAVIS FEENEY WASHINGTON
Two of the most durable
QBs in the league are Eli and Brady and their built just like Rosen is coming out of
college.
The former Ohio State
QB believes that if Colorado defeats Washington in the Pac 12 Championship Game, a two - loss Michigan team would make the
College Football Playoff.
Four - star
QB Dorian Thompson - Robinson is set to make his
college decision on Sunday between Michigan and UCLA.
Some game's he will look like the future of the position (heard that before), other game's he will look like a
college air raid
QB with a big arm that cant transition to a pro style offense....
He'll be one of the better
QBs in
college football, but he won't have any WRs and probably won't have any weapons in the backfield either (well, certainly not the same arsenal he got used to).
Dorian Thompson - Robinson, a top dual - threat
QB in the 2018 class, shared that he will be making his
college decision in May via a Bleacher Report video.
In
college, there aren't that many short
QB's.
The current
college systems produce very few
QBs that are NFL ready in year one.
He didn't have Landry's production in
college, but he always played with a restrictive knee brace (that he has now ditched) and was almost never allowed to just pin back his ears and rush the
QB as a 7 - or 9 - tech defender like Landry almost always was.
All too often, people distinguish pro-style and
college - style offenses from each other by things like how often the
QB gets under center, whether the team runs the option, and whether they use fullbacks and tight ends.
USC does a fair amount of that, but also regularly takes advantage of
college rules and tactics by including a large number of RPOs and using Darnold's size and athleticism in the
QB run game.
Because the transition is so rough these days from
college to the NFL, first round
QBs are collectively a bust waiting to happen.
If I am looking (btw, as a psychologist) for factors that may predict a
QB I don't want, I am looking for (not necessarily in this order): his athletic skills, his percentage completions, his arm, (basically
QB tangibles) and then (maybe) the kinds of things that DO predict trouble later on, e.g. legal violations, drug use, steroid use, assaults, mistreatment of men and women, cheating in
college, failure to attend meetings, classes, and practice, flagrant defiance of coaches» directions.
It also doesn't hurt that Allen's been compared to Phil Simms as a small - program
QB whose teams didn't win much in
college.
He had just over 2,200 yards in 28
college games, including three at the end of his freshman season where Maryland started a freshman linebacker at quarterback, its depth chart decimated by injuries to all of the true
QBs on the roster.
I feel with the expectation of the
College system coming into the NFL more, that we may see better football production without the need for Luck / Manning
Qb's.
College completion percentages are generally always higher than NFL
QB percentages.
Cutcliffe, a noted
QB tutor who also did not play the position in
college, mentored Montgomery and promoted him to offensive coordinator /
QB coach.
Wentz is looking like the next great
QB and he is from a small school and has some similar measurables, but Wentz WAS accurate and he won almost every single
college game he ever started, often carrying the team on his back.
Prior to Week 2 of the 2017
College Football season, BetOnline posted a prop bet on which
QB would be selected first in the 2018 NFL Draft.
How can more black men become
QB coaches if so many were moved from
QB to WR or DB in
college?
Of black players who played
QB in high school, 62 percent changed positions in
college, per the study.
Joe Hamilton,
QB, Georgia Tech The 5» 10», 189 - pound senior (below) is the
college game's Doug Flutie of the 1990s.
Both of whom, btw, said JaMarcus Russel the best
QB ever to come out of
college... and sadly Al listened to them.
Taking a running
QB with a low
college completion pct and a high amount interception is borderline stupid.
Every few years a running
QB with big numbers in
college comes out and the draftnik media creams in their shorts saying he's a «game changer» and the next «Mike Vick» — just like with Vince Young, RG3, Tim Tebow, Colin Kapernick, Terrelle Pryor, etc etc etc..