The "IF no QB with the 1st pick" poll

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by SNR

Why does he strike you as a guy without the mental faculties required to play QB in the pros?

I didn't say that. Cutler is playing in the pros with some measure of success. So is Rivers. The interview I posted might (I say "might") turn into a Ryan Leaf moment under the extra pressures of the pro game.

Again, I don't go around saying I have watched all of Geno Smith's games. But the limited number that I have watched he seemed to lose accuracy when the heat got hot. I can't direct you to any particular moment of any particular game, because I don't remember. But right or wrong I have come away with a bit of that thought gnawing at me. I'm hoping the combine will help focus my judgement a little better one way or another.

I just want my QB to be Lenny-cool. I'm willing to give up a little physical talent in exchange for that. Is that too much to ask?

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Frankie

I didn't say that. Cutler is playing in the pros with some measure of success. So is Rivers. The interview I posted might (I say "might") turn into a Ryan Leaf moment under the extra pressures of the pro game.

Again, I don't go around saying I have watched all of Geno Smith's games. But the limited number that I have watched he seemed to lose accuracy when the heat got hot. I can't direct you to any particular moment of any particular game, because I don't remember. But right or wrong I have come away with a bit of that thought gnawing at me. I'm hoping the combine will help focus my judgement a little better one way or another.

I just want my QB to be Lenny-cool. I'm willing to give up a little physical talent in exchange for that. Is that too much to ask?

I doubt the combine is going to change your opinion much if you want Geno to demonstrate coolness.

Again, if Jon Gruden does his QB camp this year, that's where Geno is going to prove to people that he's got it. That show was the thing that sold me on Ryan Tannehill as the guy the Chiefs should take, and it was also the thing that made me pretty cold on Brock Osweiler. Which is funny, because both QBs had limited experience and tended to favor screens and short passes. It was that TV interview that made one QB go up and one QB go down.

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by SNR

I doubt the combine is going to change your opinion much if you want Geno to demonstrate coolness.

Again, if Jon Gruden does his QB camp this year, that's where Geno is going to prove to people that he's got it. That show was the thing that sold me on Ryan Tannehill as the guy the Chiefs should take, and it was also the thing that made me pretty cold on Brock Osweiler. Which is funny, because both QBs had limited experience and tended to favor screens and short passes. It was that TV interview that made one QB go up and one QB go down.

BINGO. Mooch has them too. For me to feel good about a QB I have to see how he conducts himself in those psrticular interviews. Both in communication and in picking up the curves that Mooch and Chuckie throw at them. I wasn't TOTALLY sold on RGIII until I saw him in one of those. And my opinion of Dalton went way up the year before as well.