You wonder that with the thousands upon thousands of members to this site, and numerous guests, that somebody knows somebody that would know if Pioli does or ever did read this board? I'd really like to know.

But plenty of guys past the current 7 round draft have won it

Unitas was round 9 (although pick 102 overall) so that is theoretically UDFA with how many rounds are in the modern draft.

The odds are heavily stacked against Bray.

We have an entire season of college football left to play, but is anybody REALLY all that excited about the 2014 draft class of QBs?

We're looking at a ton of QB-needy teams who figure to be terrible. And this year I'm sure they'll spend high-end draft stock on a QB, depending on how well these "last chances" go for so many of these guys. Oakland basically punted away their QB problems into 2014. Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland, and Minnesota all need to consider moving on if their guys don't take a noticeable step towards improved play. I might just put St. Louis in this category, too, but only if Bradford puts out a clunker season. And then you have teams like Arizona and Kansas City with adequate stop gaps, but a need to invest in the future at the position.

Something tells me we're going to see the QBs come off the board even if the class is unspectacular. The perception will conveniently be that now is the right time to draft a QB for a handful of those teams that I mentioned above, and it will probably be mistaken as, "Boy, the 2014 class SUUUURE is a hell of a lot better than last year's!"

I suppose the 2014 class could actually be legitimately good, but we'll need to wait and see.

The odds are heavily stacked towards any QB in any round.

Bridgewater is a stud. McCarron is solid. David Fales is a nice west coast prospect. Tajh Boyd will get over drafted. Mettenberger is a Flacco type.

True, but considering only one QB (Warner) has ever done it, weights it considerably more against UDFA's than QB's that are drafted.

Johnny U.

Staubach.

Johnson.

Starr.

Look them up.

I see your point. But there is also a trend with the players you listed. All played their football 40+ years ago, except Johnson (although he pales in comparison to the other guys in this list) who did play during my time unlike the other guys. Warner is the only guy to do it in modern football and I still say the odds that a Superbowl winning QB is going to be a drafted QB, and a highly drafted QB at that, is much greater than an UDFA guy doing it.

The only other guy I can think of in modern football that came close to winning a title as an UDFA is Jeff Garcia.

LMAO

150,000 posts?

:LOL:

****ing tard.

I'm not trying to put you on the spot, but would you care to explain what happened?

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...-buffalo-bills

http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs...130429166/1004


Bills notebook: Passing of GM torch not likely in near future

Dated April 27, 2013.

I imagine the previous seasons of terrible head coach hires, bad QB contracts for bad starting QBs, and possibly some of the worst drafting and personnel development in the league influenced no part of the owner's decision to fire Nix, right? It was all EJ Manuel. The Wilsons, presiders over a franchise that has won a lot of games throughout history decided that EJ Manuel was an unforgivable sin, and cause for instant firing.

The NFL is so vastly different from when those guys were playing, I'm not sure that's very relevant.

Pretty much. And that first link that Dane posted suggests that there were rumblings about a change for some time.

We can agree on things.