Coach Tuesday

Is anyone else watching "Barry" on HBO? Winkler is stealing the show.

Come on this is kind of awesome.

That's my thought. Seems like worst-case scenario - giving up a bunch of picks to get the last of "The Four QBs" as opposed to the one they want. Better off staying put and taking Lamar Jackson, at that point.

And you may be right. Certainly you're right that he's not the athlete Wilson is and he doesn't have Favre's arm (tho his arm seems stronger than Garcia's was). But as I said, I've never seen someone who can throw the ball so accurately downfield while moving. Does that trait alone guarantee success? Definitely not. But I think that trait, coupled with his high processing speed (his analytic test scores suggest some of Cossell's analysis is misplaced) and his desire to be the best will vault him to stardom. Then again, I am no expert evaluator. I just go by my own eyes - I saw Mayfield destroy good defenses over and over again, it looked almost effortless, and defenses who tried to move him out of the pocket paid dearly for it. Also this: https://sports.yahoo.com/news/greg-cosells-nfl-draft-breakdown-accomplished-deshaun-watson-has-areas-to-work-on-164552341.html

It is a good line. Maybe I’m totally missing it with Baker but I see an assassin when he’s on the run, like Russell Wilson and maybe Brett Favre. He keeps his eyes downfield while moving and is dead-accurate throwing on the run. Maybe folks are right that he’ll live and die by whether he can work the pocket like Brees but I’m not convinced it’s a must in today’s NFL. Offenses are changing.

I have never been as all-in on a prospect as I am with Mayfield - I am completely convinced he’s bound for a hall of fame career - he reminds me so much of Favre. Darnold may be a good as well, but I just can’t get excited for drafting any of these other guys with Baker an option. And the thought of him ending up in the division is just too much...

So the Broncos would waste the 5th pick on a QB who is worse than their backup?

Correct. He is SO ACCURATE - no QB in this class hits receivers in stride the way Darnold does.

FWIW Sean Payton said Darnold is the QB prospect most likely to become a franchise QB.

Brutal

I’m stressed. This is stressful.

Why go to those lengths to lie if you have the top pick?

Really? To me they couldn't be more different. Stafford is all arm - he seems to lack a feel for the game and game situations. Rarely comes up big with the game on the line. Darnold has bad mechanics but, despite that, his ball placement is the best in this class. And he's a natural leader, which Stafford really isn't.

He should set his sights on getting off the ball on the snap. Baby steps.

You don’t say

He's right though. The Bills needed a franchise QB and TRADED DOWN for Manuel because they didn't think he was worth a top-ten pick. Think about that for a second. It's totally different than trading assets to move UP for your guy.

This is nonsense.

This is nonsense.

Especially if said QB is slight and injury-prone...

Breer is very well-connected, his mocks are pretty good: https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/04/17/nfl-mock-draft-josh-allen-browns-saquon-barkley-giants-sam-darnold-jets Personally I don't see the Bills passing on Rashaan Evans at 22 in order to take a C/G, especially since this draft is deep wrt interior linemen.

Thank you for posting this. This is what I hate about prospect evaluations - folks dramatically oversimplify it, as if a prospect is inherently either "good" or "bad" and it's just a matter of figuring out which one it is, like some kind of chemical screen test - give the prospect a drink of X and if they turn purple, they're "bad." Life doesn't work that way. There are so many factors that go into whether any prospect, and a QB in particular, will turn out to be a good pro. The quality of the structure and strategy of the organization that drafts them, for example. Their own work ethic. The skillset of the players around them. Luck, injuries, etc. What I take from the OP is that there are good reasons to think that Allen will buck the trend of sub-60% college QBs, in other words, he's not as high of a risk as some have made him out to be. Fine, point well taken. But to go any farther than that and state with near-certainty that Allen is going to be "good" is simply a waste of time - it's unknowable with Allen, or any other prospect.

This is nonsense.

Baby Boomers

I know who I'd like to send there first...

What I took away from his article above everything else is that the Dolphins are serious about trading up for a QB and must have talked to several teams in the top seven about it.