So if Wilson was on the Cleveland Browns instead of Seattle do you honestly think he'd have the same success? He has been gifted with an elite roster his entire two years. He's a decent QB on a great team.

Not saying he won't develop into a great one, but to this point he hasn't proven shit other than he can ride a herculean defensive team that can run it down your throat to a championship just like Roethlisburger did to his first ring. The only young guy who looks the part right now of future elite QB is Luck.

Peyton's only got 1 Super Bowl ring, partna.

PRINCIPAL, MANG!

Eli.

Wilson has superb intangibles, a very high football IQ, and elite accuracy. He's far from just "decent". The only reason he fell is because of his height.

Yeah, or you know, because watching a quarterback stretch the field and sling the ball around is a metric **** ton more fun to watch than the product Smith produces. He is just not an entertaining football player, and fun to watch is half the equation when people decide to spend 3+ hours a week watching football.

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Yep! But he was also completely beneath most GM's radar. Even Pete Carroll did not want John Schneider to draft Wilson. Schneider was in a a tiny group of GMs that saw Wilson's potential, and even he was shocked at Wilson's rookie year, saying he would be lying if he were to say he expected that.

Wilson is the real deal and is soaring. The kid has elite potential. Time will tell if he gets there. Another Drew Brees perhaps, but who knows? It will take some time to see his ceiling. 20-25 teams would be better off with Wilson than the QB they have.

Those are at least better arguments than "he has a ring and Smith doesn't".

Wow, 77 posters would rather have tony romo?

Rushing yards is a statistical category for RBs not for QBs. It is not an accurate measure of what a QB is doing. QB is all about the passing yards. Sure there are a few QBs that get the occasional paly for them to run actually called but that is not the case most of the time. I doubt it is ever the case for Smith. A QB is suppose to throw or hand it off other than in times when the play breaks down. His rushing yardage shows that he has enough speed to actual save a broken play but he is not being called on to haul the rock.
I find it to be disingenuous to lump them all together knowing that most people would assume those were passing yards solely based on the way you stated those numbers.

You didn't watch last year then.

There were a number of designed runs for Smith last year. Most of them early in the game...

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To achieve as much success as he has in two years you have to have talent and be able to make throws and lead the team.

He actually went about two rounds earlier than the talking heads predicted. He had seven 4th quarter comebacks / game winning drives in his senior year at Wisconsin. That's the kind of shit the GMs and HCs like. It's part of the reason why Bortles went before Bridgewater and Manziel.