They might have used the “spread” in certain circumstances, but didn’t predominantly use it like Texas uses the “spread”. I can’t remember (and living in Big XII country I see them alot) the last time McCoy was under center.
I guess I’ll toss mine in the ring also.
Rodgers did not play in the spread offense. Tedford isn’t traditionally a spread guy and he’s only used it recently, adopting it in 2006. Rodgers almost always played from under center, rarely in the gun.
Brees is really an outlier, and frankly the version of Tiller’s spread when he was playing wasn’t nearly so quirky and scheme oriented as most of the well known ones nowadays. Certainly he ignored the run option that teams like Texas and Florida use and his QBs spent some time under center. There’s a reason Brees and Orton transitioned better than the norm because their scheme wasn’t quite so incompatible with the NFL.
Oh shit. Here we go again.
Sure, but playing out of the shotgun does not automatically mean a quarterback isn’t going to be any good. Ben Roethlisberger played in a shotgun spread and he seems to have done okay transitioning to playing under center.
I was pretty damn close last time. Not my fault your shitty team didn’t let him carry the ball in the first half of the season.
He didn’t validate his solid rookie year this year either. Pleh. What a mess.
No - although he did prove that his 39 receptions last year weren’t a fluke.
Well. There’s that. I suppose I can point to that as the third win of the season. Woo.
I saw Jimmy Clausen play a game early this season and I remember not being impressed by him at all, despite all the fawning and drooling the announcers were doing. He looked like he couldn’t throw the ball twenty yards. Strange what one isolated impression of a player can do when taken outside of the whole season, because I guess he’s good? I didn’t see it.
I don’t understand why Tim Tebow isn’t being thought of as a QB. There’s this strange meme going around about how he’s “better suited as a HB/TE.” He sounds to me like the perfect wildcat QB in the NFL. He was an accomplished thrower and runner in college. People see him as a HB, but he’s certainly a better thrower than Pat White or Michael Vick. He’s not as fast or elusive, but isn’t that the knock against guys like Pat White? They’re too small to be a runner and they’ll get banged up every week? Don’t you want a bigger guy who could take a hit and possibly not get killed?
And if you think Tebow could be an effective TE, you get even more utility out of him than any other wildcat QB because when he’s split out wide, he’s not a wasted player on the field (like Henne or McNabb out wide), because apparently he can catch the ball too. That sounds like the best possible wildcat QB skill set: good thrower, big runner, can catch out wide. Buy three and get the incredible leadership and the incredible teammate for free! I’d rather have him than Michael Vick or Pat White.
Actually, the TE/HB thing makes Tebow even more attractive as a quarterback; even if it turns out that he can’t hack it as a quarterback, you can then try him as a new position project. Greatly reduces the chance of him being a total bust.
I don’t like the “wildcat quarterback” idea at all though. You’re either a quarterback or you aren’t, and having a guy on your roster who only runs a tenth of your playbook is a waste of space.
Here are Jimmy Clausen’s stats from this season, game by game. Which one did you see? He got killed in the Purdue game, two weeks after he ripped tendons in his toes.
Vick has an Int% of 3.0. Roethlisberger’s is 5.3%. Sure, his completion percentage sucks (54%), but he had the highest passing rating in D-I coming out of college. Not sure why Tebow would be any different in that regard, other than being slower. I also think he’d be a decent QB (decent being slightly-below-average), but he’d never get full reps like he would as a HB/TE.
Tebow threw more passes in the 2007 season alone (350) as Vick did in his entire 2-year run as a starter at VA Tech (332), for the record.
Didn’t Oakland trade their first rounder to New England at the beginning of the season? I don’t believe it was protected in the event it was a high pick.
I believe that was a 2011 pick for Richard Seymour.
Not according to this list of trades involving 2010 draft picks.
That’s right. The way the Raiders are going, it’ll be a top ten pick next year too.
There is going to be a coin flip to determine if Jacksonville or Denver gets the 10th pick.
It affects all the other rounds as well (just like the fight for the 19th), so Denver is hoping to win, Jacksonville is hoping to win and Chicago is hoping that Denver wins so their third round pick is one higher.
Does a team want to draft Suh and make a lineman that highly paid? If he gets mega millions .the whole pay scale for lineman might go up. The rookies in the NFL are often the highest paid players on the team. If he gets 8 mill a year, what happens to your established linemen at contract time?
The top 20 2008 salaries:
That’s 9 linemen, if you count DE.
So the #1 pick in the draft (3000 points) is worth more than the 142 guys making up picks #175 to #256 (total combined value of 2870.7 points). Interesting.
Mr. #1 Pick better hope he never gets drunk enough to slurringly tell those 142 guys “…and I’m more valauab…more valackable…more valstible…I’m better than allayouse guys put together!”