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@Brooksie
Bryce Young isn't going to throw at the combine or even work out. He is going to show up, take height and weight measurements and do the medical exams - teams are going to want to take a good look at his shoulder - plus do interviews. He is going to throw and do the other workouts at the pro day. Guys who are A. proven passers and B. first round pick locks never throw at the combine. So C.J. Stroud won't throw either. Guys who are considered to be first round talent but didn't have a college career that indicates it like Will Levis and Anthony Richardson are going to throw, as well as guys who aren't considered first round material.
@reddawg1
The San Francisco offense was only viable with QBs with weak arms when it was new and teams didn't know how to defend it. But after teams learned how to scheme and draft for it, the west coast offense began to require strong arms like everyone else. This happened way back in the early 1990s really when the 49ers switched out Joe Montana for Steve Young - though more for salary and age reasons than arm strength - and particularly when the Green Bay Packers traded for Brett Favre and drafted Mark Brunell, plus the Eagles drafted Donovan McNabb, and the Broncos switched to the west coast offense with John Elway. Even back then the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles gave Ty Detmer, a QB without an NFL arm, a shot and it didn't work out. Finally, Joe Montana's arm was quite a bit stronger than Stetson Bennett's anyway. Were Montana playing today, his arm wouldn't be considered deficient at all. Montana played in the NFL in a different era where the vertical passing game off play action was everything. Half the QBs starting in the NFL today would have been considered to have weak arms by the 1980s standards. Pat Mahomes, Josh Allen and Justin Herbert would be fine but Joe Burrow would be considered a west coast offense guy. Jalen Hurts and Lamar Jackson would be playing tailback or linebacker. Baker Mayfield, a #1 overall pick, would have probably been taken in the 6th or 7th round. Brady has a stronger arm than Mayfield - and is taller - and he was taken in the 5th. Finally the west coast offense requires consistent accuracy which is something that SB IV has never been associated with. Donovan McNabb had a cannon arm and so did Brett Favre, but they both made a lot of mistakes and would have been better off in a different system. Even John Elway, Denver used a dominant running game (from UGA RB Terrell Davis) to mitigate his mistakes.
@GtheGreek
AJ McCarron had the same 2 NCs that SB IV did. He went in the 5th round and is now in the XFL. And McCarron is taller than SB IV with a stronger arm. And unlike SB IV, McCarron ran a standard NFL pro-style offense. Indeed, the offense that McCarron ran was more "pro-style" with less spread principles than half the NFL runs these days. I have said this a ton of times: the NFL could care less about national titles. Deshaun Watson was passed up by Mitch Trubisky, whom Watson dominated in college, and Pat Mahomes who had a losing record. Jay Cutler was the #11 overall pick without ever having had a winning season at Vanderbilt. And Jacob Coker, who beat Deshaun Watson for the 2015 national title, wasn't drafted at all. Even better: of all the QBs who won titles for Saban (Matt Mauck, Greg McElroy, the aforementioned McCarron and Coker, Mac Jones), only Jones was a first round pick.
As I have mentioned a number of times on this blog, either the folks on here don't pay attention to the NFL, or you want NFL teams to treat SB IV differently than they have every other QB because he played for UGA.
Now THIS is how you write an unbiased, balanced, fact-based, well-researched column on SBIV (or any other player for that matter)... well done and thanks, Connor!
Brock Purdy's NFL evaluation: more pros than negatives but these were his negatives:
Even with arm strength limitations, he was plugged in and performed very well, so much for all these "evaluations". Theyare nothing more than educated guesses. I just trust what I've seen with my eyes.
SB doesn't need a rifle arm to be a success. He's got more dog in him than Will LEvis, and Ill take that and build around it. Would LEvis have won 2 NC with UGA? Possibly, but I don't think he has the 4th quarters that SB had against BAMA in the NC game or against Ohio St. in the 4th quarter of the playoff game with the game on the line. I see him wilting from the pressure. Just an opinion, everyone's welcome to theirs.
Go Dawgs!
" Joe Montana's arm was quite a bit stronger than Stetson Bennett's anyway"
"McCarron is taller than SB IV with a stronger arm"
Wow! You really know a lot about about arm strength of QB's compared to Stet. It's almost like you are personally working everyone out. Please tell me how far Montana could throw back in the day.
Of course I did watch an interview recently where Brock Vandagriff literally said Stetson had a cannon for an arm but what does he know compared to you? I mean he only worked out with Stet the whole season. He can't know much compared to you.
Thank you for enlightening us all thadec. It is appreciated.
"As I have mentioned a number of times on this blog, either the folks on here don't pay attention to the NFL, or you want NFL teams to treat SB IV differently than they have every other QB because he played for UGA"
If only we were as smart as you. Thanks for helping us along.
"Donovan McNabb had a cannon arm and so did Brett Favre, but they both made a lot of mistakes and would have been better off in a different system. Even John Elway, Denver used a dominant running game (from UGA RB Terrell Davis) to mitigate his mistakes"
Too bad you weren't coaching them. You obviously could have made them great.
Nothing I love more than clueless know-it-alls. Just the whole comment was ridiculous.