Everyone you listen to will say that there are 4 really premium players in this draft: Patrick Peterson, Marcel Darius, A.J. Green, and Von Miller. None are QB's. Further, most will tell you that Cam Newton, Blaine Gabbert, et al are not premium players and should be rated 2nd and 3rd rounders. Yet it seems that 3, 4, or even 5 QB's may go in round one.
Call it QB Disease. The smartest and best paid football executives continue to go blind when it comes to the QB position and drafting. As the draft approaches, they build up these flawed QB's and talk themselves into picking them high because they are basically desperate in a QB-driven league. Half of them will flop and people will scratch their heads and wonder what happened.
Step back and think about taking a raw kid who has played 1 year of major football in a unique offense, has been in trouble with the law, has a meddling father, and who says he sees himself as a global icon, with the first overall pick! Totally nuts. Millions of dollars and people's careers on the line for that kind of risk! But these scouts and GM's are the league's best and brightest? Insane.
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I am still unsure why the NFL hasn't adopted the wide spread formations used in college.
The Pats use the system in the passing game and it works.
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