- Joined
- Sep 14, 2008
- Messages
- 3,480
- Reaction score
- 7,807
I think a point that people forget is there are a limited number of QBs who are even able to do most of those 4 things well in any draft. That's how Mac got taken in the first round.Polian is a sack of ****, but he's 100% correct here and I have to credit him for saying it. To build on the quote @mike_usagisan posted above - Mac Jones was great at A) recognizing a defense, B) processing, C) knowing where to go with the ball, but failed spectacularly at D) doing it accurately under pressure. Unfortunately he was not pressured very much behind that Alabama line, so it was probably hard to determine how he'd do, but it was worth a try. If they had given him a grade A+ offensive line, would he have panned out better? Coaching woes aside, yeah probably. But that's not realistic either - OL injuries are frequent so you need to be able to operate with pressure.
Minding the above points, Drake Maye is probably your best pick. But they all have their warts to some extent. Maye just best checks the most important core boxes and his issues are things you can fix with time, if he puts the effort in. At the same time, maybe someone like McCarthy or Bo Nix are better at some of these things than we realize, because to Polian's point, we don't have all the info. Were they limited by the scheme they were in, or by what the coaches demanded they do?
Is Maye capable of all 4? Or McCarthy? Who knows? But if you have no QB, as we currently do not, you have to take a chance on one of them and hope that any areas where they're not good enough at can be taught out of them.
The draft is a crapshoot. If we're lucky, we're not talking about looking for a QB in the first round again in three years.
Last edited: