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Originally Posted by keg in kc
Well, we're a year removed now, but as I recall I tended to think of him as a stronger-armed Greg McElroy. Which was why I always expected him to be drafted here, both because of the Ferentz connection and because the franchise seems to want a game manager behind center. And I thought he made some real strides his final season, after what I considered to be a couple of lackluster initial years as a starter. But in the end, heading into the 2011 draft, my opinion of him was that he was a high floor/low ceiling player, and I thought his most likely upside would be as a career backup. Which is why around the draft that year I was one of the ones against the idea of drafting him in the 2nd or 3rd round, but ultimately okay with taking him in the 5th.
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The problem with your analysis is that he wasn't a game manager at all. In both his junior and senior seasons, he won games all by himself. In his junior season, he had to win several games because it was his interceptions that put them in a hole in the 1st place. He was the antithesis of a game manager for 75% of his time at Iowa. My guess is the one or two times you REALLY got to see him was when he played Michigan or Georgia Tech. Those are pretty specific game plans that called for him to play like that.
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Originally Posted by keg in kc
And I'd never pretend to be some kind of QB guru or something. It's just my opinion on the guy, and it might well turn out to be wrong. All you have to do to see that is look back at my takes on Drew Brees back in '01.
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I was wrong about Brees too. After his first couple of seasons in Sandy Eggo, I declared him a bust.
