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Do you think you might be rewriting history a bit? Hoyer wasn't an obscure prospect at all. He was a 2-year starter in the Big 10, a combine invitee, and was widely pegged as a 5th-6th round draft pick. When he surprisingly went undrafted, by his own description he got offers from a ton of teams. He chose the Patriots because he has good taste.
Patchick,
You are quite correct. I stand corrected. Brian Hoyer's collegiate credentials are fine, but the Big Ten is a Two Team league and Michigan State isn't one of them, except once a generation, or so. That is a big reason he slid.
But draft scouts never can measure anything about a QB prospect than the triangle numbers and whether he has a rocket arm. Alli of which count for barely 10% of what makes a good QB.Hoyer received A- or B+ grade on those four criteria and wasn't a favorite due to his college rising in the rankings.
Someone said he isn't more like rookie Tom Brady at 6-4 225, to who I compared him, but is more like Chad Pennington, 6-2, 220, but from a bigger school, and with a better arm, but the same "thinking man's approach" to the game. I heartily concur.
Since Penny has produced several playoff season that is not bad company to be in. Do you ever wonder what Penny could do with a better arm, like Hoyer possesses? :idea2: