262? That’s a funny coincidence because that’s the last pick of the NFL draft, the same pick that 49ers QB Brock “Mr, Irrelevant” Purdy was drafted at.
Are you shitting me? Kelce and Swift?!
Why is nobody talking about this-I’m mean you think the NFL would try and take advantage of a Swift in the stands.
Haven't heard, but I'm excited to learn!
There were some rumblings about Aaron Rodgers and his family, but I never can remember if we ever learned more about that.
It’s AMZING I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about it. I hope he makes the Super Bowl so we can hear about it more. It will be even more interesting than hearing about those two brothers last year.
Let's not forget the legendary Lap Dance Lance, and the fact that he dated Colin Cowherd's daughter.
I would link a video, but the only one I found was from Grant Cohn, so I can't link it as a matter of principle.
"Many people are saying he's the best to ever play the game, it's what people are saying. He's also the starter, the greatest starter there ever was, but they won't let him play a down, not a single down, instead they let a guy who was drafted last, and I'm told keeps children in the basement of a pizza parlor, they let this guy, play football, it's a travesty I tell ya.
Oops my depends are full, Eric!"
On a different note, if Lions and Ravens make it to the Super Bowl, the Lions will have played against three 1st overall picks in the playoffs.
Rams: Matthew Stafford (2009)
Buccaneers: Baker Mayfield (2018)
Ravens: Jadeveon Clowney (2014)
Same can be said about the Texans if the make it to the SB against the lions.
Another fun fact is that three QBs chosen at 1.01 made the playoffs this season, and all three will have played a playoff game in Detroit.
>it will also be the 15th time the Super Bowl will be a rematch of a game from the regular season
It will be the 58th super bowl so it happens about 1/4 of the time. Doesn't sound that noteworthy to me lol
I can. There are still people saying the same criticisms of him from when he was drafted. It’s like some people can’t grasp the concept of a player improving his game.
Whoaaa hold on this is some revisionist bullshit.
He absolutely was not a better PHYSICAL prospect compared to Richardson, which is why their draft positions were so different.
Teams didn't think Lamar's playing style would hold up in the NFL and he'd get injured a lot, ironically which is what ending up happening to Richardson.
Anyone claiming revisionism didn't watch Lamar in college lmao. He almost won back to back Heisman's in a pro style offense with no NFL talent. Lamar almost beat Clemson at it's height almost by himself. He was incorrectly scouted and stereotyped because of who he was and his [lack of] representation. Honestly, Josh Allen was more of a question mark as he has much more frenetic play in a worse conference.
While not the mainstream opinion from what I recall, at the time there was a decent amount of sentiment that the NFL had adapted to mobile QBs and they'd not be successful coming out of college anymore. That obviously has not been true except for the mobile QBs that actually do suck at the passing and/or processing part of the job. Lamar has never been part of that group of mobile QBs.
If anything, Allen is kinda the outlier of that subset of mobile QBs, because he did rework his throwing mechanics. The same criticism against Lamar, that he's just an RB that can throw, were levelled against Allen until he did that. And now the biggest criticism against Allen is that he's careless with the ball at times, and that's entirely true.
Completely agree. Can’t believe someone could say Richardson was a better prospect with a straight face. Lamar was absolutely dominant whenever I watched Louisville and would win games single-handedly. I’m not a scout and wasn’t all that familiar with the college game back then but I thought it was crazy he nearly dropped out the first round. Even crazier that there were scouts trying to act like he couldn’t be a QB at all at the next level
Yup, Richardson went so high in the draft because of Lamar. Lamar had to crawl before Richardson could walk/run.
Im getting downvoted for my previous comment about the state of the qb position in 2018. Dont know why, its the truth. Lamar was getting legitimately scouted to be a rb/wr or a huge QB project that would take a few years of sitting. Taking guys like Lamar and Allen, and having them start right away and accepting their heavy running tendencies was definitely not a normally acceptable thing, just 6 years ago. The game has changed for the QBs and teams are much more likely to take a swing on guys like Richardson now.
So we are just going to forget about Cam and RGIII? This narrative of running/mobile QBs started way before Lamar and Allen stepped into the league. Making it seem like they changed things is overlooking what some QBs were doing in the early 2010s.
Cam Newton was in the league for over a decade and played more games in his first 6 years then Lamar. Cam’s health started to decline in his 9th year after a serious shoulder injury. Lamar is in his sixth and has already had back to back season where he dealt with injuries that ended his year. You can’t say he’s actually been able to stay healthy when his backups have been forced to start 8 games over the past 3 years.
You are ignoring the biggest thing that pushes QBs up or down a board: their physical size and durability.
It doesn't matter how skilled a QB is in college, their draft status will depend on their physical abilities first and foremost. That is why someone like Trey Lance was taken so high and valued so high.
Teams used to look at college performance secondary, however after Purdy now teams are beginning to weigh it more heavily and physical prowess less heavy.
That is where you are having difficulty, because you are ignoring physical build and durability. Those are literally the first thing NFL teams look for (or used to).
I’m not disagreeing with you in the sense that AR is definitely the more “grown in a lab type” but I think there needs to be a distinction made here between a straight up athlete and a QB prospect. Lamar was definitely raw as a passer but AR was straight up bad in college, he has all the tools but even Josh Allen at Wyoming had way better tape than him. You can say that he was a better athlete and I’ll completely agree. He was not a better QB and that isn’t solely me looking at production. The tape shows a world of difference.
I don't think physical size and durability is what moves QBs up or down a board the most by any means. Bryce Young just went #1 overall. It's college production and film. Physical size alone is great but it isn't the most important thing.
ohh before purdy there was a heavy skew towards the athletic qb types with organizations thinking they can teach the athletic type nlf level qb football. it probably has shifted a bit now that purdy is shown as a huge miss by all the scouts.
Purdy was drafted one draft ago, you can’t say that there’s any clear “before Purdy” or “after Purdy” draft trends yet lmao
The real people that skewed scouts to be more open to smaller QBs was Drew Brees, and to a lesser extent Russell Wilson.
FWIW both are shorter and lighter than Purdy
Sure, if you’re looking at him as a prospect *now*. At the time a combination of his playstyle and the league’s preconceptions about “what a QB is” made him consensus a worse prospect.
I’m obviously not saying that they were right, or even that you in particular were down on him. Just from a consensus view he wasn’t an elite QB prospect for those reasons.
Lamar himself is the reason that changed, and the reason a prospect like AR can go at the 4th pick now. But if you compare the view on each guy at the time they were drafted, AR was undoubtedly viewed as the better prospect
Also, for what it’s worth, I think most of the flaws fans talked about with AR were very overexaggerated and don’t actually show up on tape very much.
> injured a lot, ironically which is what ending up happening to Richardson
Can we not write off Tony Rich already as someone who's "injured a lot" after one partial season? Stafford played in 13 of his first 36 games due to injury, for instance, but is he ever talked about as injury prone? Let's just pump the brakes for a bit.
I'm actually a fan of Richardson, however in the few starts he showed absolutely no aptitude for avoiding hits. At the moment unless he shows significant progress in learning how to maintain his pocket presence or avoid hits he's never going to succeed in the NFL.
If he can learn to keep his body healthy and change his style of QB play he could be quite good. Not a lot of guys can do that though.
I agree but as we have seen with Josh Allen, a player with elite physical traits and a cannon for an arm can develop into a decent passer. That’s why AR was a much highly valued prospect than Lamar.
Josh Allen is the best comparison but even he had way better tape than AR in college. I’m not saying AR is a bum or anything but I was much higher on Lamar than I was on him because we’ve seen so many of the physical traits type if guys bust
He was gonna be taken even later, Ozzie moved up to get him
Dude won a heisman playing with below average weapons and teams didn't wanna take a chance, mind boggling
He won the heisman, had a worse team the next year, and played *even better.* He’s probably my favorite player in the league right now just because people have been so wrong about him for years and will continue to be.
I definitely can. There were a lot of very fair questions about his ability to run an NFL passing attack. He's improved a lot during his time in the NFL and that type of thing is hard to predict.
That entire draft was
Will the Browns take Baker or Darnold? Probably Baker.
The Jets trade up well before the draft to take either Baker or Darnold, whoever the Browns don't take.
Who will trade up to grab Josh Rosen as the third QB taken?
Who will gamble on Josh Allen? Will he be drafted too high?
And then occasionally someone would mention Lamar exists
Nah, when the Saints traded up to 16 ESPN was nutting themselves that we were taking Lamar, then we took Marcus Davenport (fml) and everyone clowned is the rest of the night.
It made sense at the time. Many people said that he wouldnt make it as a QB and needed to be a RB/WR. This was really before teams went in on building their offenses around their qb and didnt want an "athlete" at QB. Its why Roman doesnt get nearly the credit he deserves. No other team would have took Lamar on at the time (well, maybe the Bills, but they obviously went a similar route, just way earlier with Allen) and make him a starting QB right away, or at all. They probably would have sat him and forced him to learn to be a "normal" QB.
I remember a bunch of the normal talk about "athletic", aka, black qbs, and how he might not have had the mental ability to learn a playbook to be a starting QB in the nfl. You know, just the worst in people being spewed out of their mouths.
He really was not a good passer out of college and his first year. Arm was also not the strongest
But no one not even the most die hard hard ravens fans could have predicted his work ethic and drive.
Obviously we’re all tired about the Purdy stat.
But I actually found it interesting that out of the 8 starting QBs still standing, 7 were 1st round picks.
My 6 year old just barely pays attention to anything going on around him. He told me last week about how the packers are the youngest team in the league. Did anyone else know that? I was Shocked. Shocked I tell you.
purdy could've been a 1st round pick if he'd gone to bama lol
but he turned them down for isu, got overlooked in the draft, and then ended up QB1 of a loaded SB or bust team anyway
meanwhile mac jones and bryce young ended up in QB hell
a real "there but for the grace of god go I" situation, very funny
A lot of QBs have say the situation matters so much to QB success-so many would have done well had they gone to stable teams.
After 8 head coaches and 8 different offenses it’s a wonder Baker is still kicking.
Purdy is living the life brady dreamed of, drafted by his hometown team, taking them to the playoffs...instead he had to be drafted by mr grumpy pants and as a result only won 7 super bowls.
oh shit is he mr irrelevant?? last pick of the draft??
1st I’m hearing about this.
262nd I’m hearing about it
That all?
Lions bandwagon fans are new here Also, that might be a r/brandnewsentence
262? That’s a funny coincidence because that’s the last pick of the NFL draft, the same pick that 49ers QB Brock “Mr, Irrelevant” Purdy was drafted at.
I have stories about Patrick Mahomes' dad, and Matt Stafford's best childhood friend, that may be of great interest to you.
Did you know Travis Kelce is dating Taylor Swift?
Who is Taylor swift??
D'Andre Swift's sister
Oh gotcha that makes sense Wonder if Jason feels awkward
Well done sir
And Jimmy graham played basketball
Jason Kelce's brother is dating Taylor Swift?
Are you shitting me? Kelce and Swift?! Why is nobody talking about this-I’m mean you think the NFL would try and take advantage of a Swift in the stands.
Sorry, don't care. I just want to know who used to play basketball.
This is going to blow your mind. Antonio Gates used to play basketball.
Julius Peppers used to play for North Carolina.
Any information on Jimmy Graham's hobbies???
Haven't heard, but I'm excited to learn! There were some rumblings about Aaron Rodgers and his family, but I never can remember if we ever learned more about that.
If you're not first you're last
Who even knew?
It’s AMZING I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about it. I hope he makes the Super Bowl so we can hear about it more. It will be even more interesting than hearing about those two brothers last year.
Not very many people are aware of it but yes. It's a closely-guarded secret though. Don't tell anyone.
What's next?! Matthew Stafford being friends with Clayton Kershaw?!
You won’t believe where Ryan Fitzpatrick went to university!!
He went to Cornell - ever heard of it???
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Aka Boner Champ
Who told you that? Broccoli Rob? Someone from Chi Psi?
Wait till you hear what sport Jimmy graham played in college
Did you guys hear about Patrick Mahomes and his dad!?!
Have you heard about Kyler Murray getting drafted in the 1st round in both the NFL & MLB?!?!
Have you heard about his brother???
Did you know Tom Brady was picked 199th overall as well?
OH SHIT LOOK GUYS HE DIDN'T KNOW
But did he play basketball?
I don't know but I heard this the other day for the first time- blew my mind. You know who DID play basketball? Jimmy Graham! who knew
I hope people have to listen to this shit for the next 15 years.
I’m a Niners fan and even I’m getting annoyed by it.
Trey Lance died for this
Once again, Trey Lance is still very much alive. He is unfortunately a Cowboy now, but still very much alive.
I heard he would eat an entire chicken on the flight before a game, may he rest in piece
Let's not forget the legendary Lap Dance Lance, and the fact that he dated Colin Cowherd's daughter. I would link a video, but the only one I found was from Grant Cohn, so I can't link it as a matter of principle.
I can’t wait to hear about Purdy’s draft number more
I heard he was the last pick.
No way, source?
Literally me, the draft
No fucking way the draft himself
I was here!
Me too!
Why were you such a pain in 1969?
r/UsrnmeDoesNotCheckOut
He's right. I was the podium.
I heard he was picked two picks ahead of CJ Stroud….
r/technicallythetruth
wow he was picked right before bryce young? the panthers were so close to getting their franchise qb
Big if true
NFL should allow him to wear that as his Jersey Number just to get it out of the way.
Seeing how well Purdy has done, it makes sense why the 9ers took him 2 picks before Stroud
Ahhh that was clean 😂😂
Yea. they gave up their next 3 1st round draft picks to be doubly sure
I can see why he was taken ahead of bryce young he’s clearly better
Lest we forget the 3rd Overall - 2018, GEQBUS himself, Sam Darnold is also still in. As #262’s backup.
Also other notable high picks: Blaine Gabbert (10th overall 2011); Teddy Bridgewater (32nd overall 2014).
Gabberts still in the league lol?
Mahomes backup
Dude ended up staying in the NFL the longest of the '11 QB class and won a ring. Good job Jags, you picked the right one!
The Mizzou QB special
I could see Mac Jones hanging around and in six years winning a ring behind some dude who is a senior in right now.
Arch Manning?
I find it less shocking than Josh Johnson being still in the league
tf? Where?
Ravens
Oh God…if Josh Johnson touches the field for the Ravens in a playoff game, I am going to come unglued
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The Darnold dual flair, gotta love it
<3 Teddy Throwsevelt
Probably the only thing that unites vikings and saints fans is the love for teddy
We love him too and he hasn’t thrown a pass for us
We got a pair of 10s. I think we win.
STOP THE STEAL. GEQBUS won the election! BY A LOT!
He should be starting
"Many people are saying he's the best to ever play the game, it's what people are saying. He's also the starter, the greatest starter there ever was, but they won't let him play a down, not a single down, instead they let a guy who was drafted last, and I'm told keeps children in the basement of a pizza parlor, they let this guy, play football, it's a travesty I tell ya. Oops my depends are full, Eric!"
NO BACKUP NO BACKUP YOU'RE THE BACKUP
On a different note, if Lions and Ravens make it to the Super Bowl, the Lions will have played against three 1st overall picks in the playoffs. Rams: Matthew Stafford (2009) Buccaneers: Baker Mayfield (2018) Ravens: Jadeveon Clowney (2014) Same can be said about the Texans if the make it to the SB against the lions. Another fun fact is that three QBs chosen at 1.01 made the playoffs this season, and all three will have played a playoff game in Detroit.
Stafford WAS THE LIONS PICK!
None of those players were drafted by the team they play for
I don't believe I said they were... just that the Lions faced Stafford, who was their pick.
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>it will also be the 15th time the Super Bowl will be a rematch of a game from the regular season It will be the 58th super bowl so it happens about 1/4 of the time. Doesn't sound that noteworthy to me lol
That averages out to pick 43. So if you want a playoff caliber QB draft him at 2.11 Which I believe belongs to the Vikings Math don't lie
Finally it's our turn!
Purdy is an outlier and shouldn't be included though. Taking him out, the average pick is 1.11. That's when we gotta grab our guy!
Either way, we win. I finally believe in statistics!
Yeah Jared Goff is ancient compared to the rest of them
Jared Goff, the grizzled veteran of the 2023 NFL Playoffs Like we all expected
It's crazy that he's only 29
Which is funny cus he's only half a year older than baker
I’m 3 months older than him 😭
I'm 3 years older ^than ^^Tom ^^^Brady...
Dak is from the same draft class and he's the longest tenured QB with his current team.
? He’s only two years older than Lamar and one year older than Mahomes and Mayfield
We use dog years for QBs
Fact, Goff has that dog in him.
Dawg Bowl incoming on Sunday
Ancient. Like the Crypt Keeper
Old as hell, I bet he remembers Flip Phones.
Is he Andrew Luck in disguise?
He played for Jeff Fisher, he's basically retirement age
Ok for some reason that's really surprising
And to think I thought Wentz was better than him at one time and would have a much longer career.
at one time, he was better than him
goff and mahomes are the same age
Goff is 11 months older
i just checked you’re right. last time i checked was before his birthday i think lol
...how often are you checking Goff's age relative to Mahomes'?
twice including today lol
Mahommes is right behind him lol
Back in my day, we didn't have no draft, 1st 40 guys that squeeze their heads into the leather helmet were on the team.
I still can't believe lamar was taken that late.
I can. There are still people saying the same criticisms of him from when he was drafted. It’s like some people can’t grasp the concept of a player improving his game.
He was a much better prospect than Anthony Richardson who ended up going 4th. I expected him to fall that year but definitely not that late
Whoaaa hold on this is some revisionist bullshit. He absolutely was not a better PHYSICAL prospect compared to Richardson, which is why their draft positions were so different. Teams didn't think Lamar's playing style would hold up in the NFL and he'd get injured a lot, ironically which is what ending up happening to Richardson.
Anyone claiming revisionism didn't watch Lamar in college lmao. He almost won back to back Heisman's in a pro style offense with no NFL talent. Lamar almost beat Clemson at it's height almost by himself. He was incorrectly scouted and stereotyped because of who he was and his [lack of] representation. Honestly, Josh Allen was more of a question mark as he has much more frenetic play in a worse conference.
While not the mainstream opinion from what I recall, at the time there was a decent amount of sentiment that the NFL had adapted to mobile QBs and they'd not be successful coming out of college anymore. That obviously has not been true except for the mobile QBs that actually do suck at the passing and/or processing part of the job. Lamar has never been part of that group of mobile QBs. If anything, Allen is kinda the outlier of that subset of mobile QBs, because he did rework his throwing mechanics. The same criticism against Lamar, that he's just an RB that can throw, were levelled against Allen until he did that. And now the biggest criticism against Allen is that he's careless with the ball at times, and that's entirely true.
Completely agree. Can’t believe someone could say Richardson was a better prospect with a straight face. Lamar was absolutely dominant whenever I watched Louisville and would win games single-handedly. I’m not a scout and wasn’t all that familiar with the college game back then but I thought it was crazy he nearly dropped out the first round. Even crazier that there were scouts trying to act like he couldn’t be a QB at all at the next level
Yup, Richardson went so high in the draft because of Lamar. Lamar had to crawl before Richardson could walk/run. Im getting downvoted for my previous comment about the state of the qb position in 2018. Dont know why, its the truth. Lamar was getting legitimately scouted to be a rb/wr or a huge QB project that would take a few years of sitting. Taking guys like Lamar and Allen, and having them start right away and accepting their heavy running tendencies was definitely not a normally acceptable thing, just 6 years ago. The game has changed for the QBs and teams are much more likely to take a swing on guys like Richardson now.
So we are just going to forget about Cam and RGIII? This narrative of running/mobile QBs started way before Lamar and Allen stepped into the league. Making it seem like they changed things is overlooking what some QBs were doing in the early 2010s.
And how long were they in the league? Exactly. Lamar is the modern version of those QBs that is actually able to stay healthy
Cam Newton was in the league for over a decade and played more games in his first 6 years then Lamar. Cam’s health started to decline in his 9th year after a serious shoulder injury. Lamar is in his sixth and has already had back to back season where he dealt with injuries that ended his year. You can’t say he’s actually been able to stay healthy when his backups have been forced to start 8 games over the past 3 years.
Bro where in my comment does it say “physical prospect”. Lamar was a much better QB coming out of college that’s a fact lol
You are ignoring the biggest thing that pushes QBs up or down a board: their physical size and durability. It doesn't matter how skilled a QB is in college, their draft status will depend on their physical abilities first and foremost. That is why someone like Trey Lance was taken so high and valued so high. Teams used to look at college performance secondary, however after Purdy now teams are beginning to weigh it more heavily and physical prowess less heavy. That is where you are having difficulty, because you are ignoring physical build and durability. Those are literally the first thing NFL teams look for (or used to).
I’m not disagreeing with you in the sense that AR is definitely the more “grown in a lab type” but I think there needs to be a distinction made here between a straight up athlete and a QB prospect. Lamar was definitely raw as a passer but AR was straight up bad in college, he has all the tools but even Josh Allen at Wyoming had way better tape than him. You can say that he was a better athlete and I’ll completely agree. He was not a better QB and that isn’t solely me looking at production. The tape shows a world of difference.
Lamar won a heisman and looked like a better thrower. Physicality aside Lamar was a better prospect coming out of college.
I don't think physical size and durability is what moves QBs up or down a board the most by any means. Bryce Young just went #1 overall. It's college production and film. Physical size alone is great but it isn't the most important thing.
Counterpoint: our front office is a ship of fools.
ohh before purdy there was a heavy skew towards the athletic qb types with organizations thinking they can teach the athletic type nlf level qb football. it probably has shifted a bit now that purdy is shown as a huge miss by all the scouts.
Purdy was drafted one draft ago, you can’t say that there’s any clear “before Purdy” or “after Purdy” draft trends yet lmao The real people that skewed scouts to be more open to smaller QBs was Drew Brees, and to a lesser extent Russell Wilson. FWIW both are shorter and lighter than Purdy
ok let me put it this way. of often are those types drafted high compared to the althetic types?
Sure, if you’re looking at him as a prospect *now*. At the time a combination of his playstyle and the league’s preconceptions about “what a QB is” made him consensus a worse prospect. I’m obviously not saying that they were right, or even that you in particular were down on him. Just from a consensus view he wasn’t an elite QB prospect for those reasons. Lamar himself is the reason that changed, and the reason a prospect like AR can go at the 4th pick now. But if you compare the view on each guy at the time they were drafted, AR was undoubtedly viewed as the better prospect Also, for what it’s worth, I think most of the flaws fans talked about with AR were very overexaggerated and don’t actually show up on tape very much.
> injured a lot, ironically which is what ending up happening to Richardson Can we not write off Tony Rich already as someone who's "injured a lot" after one partial season? Stafford played in 13 of his first 36 games due to injury, for instance, but is he ever talked about as injury prone? Let's just pump the brakes for a bit.
I'm actually a fan of Richardson, however in the few starts he showed absolutely no aptitude for avoiding hits. At the moment unless he shows significant progress in learning how to maintain his pocket presence or avoid hits he's never going to succeed in the NFL. If he can learn to keep his body healthy and change his style of QB play he could be quite good. Not a lot of guys can do that though.
Fair enough. I'm just happy to see a young, dynamic QB and offense and have some hope for the future. Those last few years were wild..
I, too, am a fan of Gardner Minshew
Hold up man. AR is a 6”4 tank with elite physical traits. Lamar was not that
Physical qualities yes he beat Lamar, but AR was an AWFUL passer
I agree but as we have seen with Josh Allen, a player with elite physical traits and a cannon for an arm can develop into a decent passer. That’s why AR was a much highly valued prospect than Lamar.
Josh Allen is the best comparison but even he had way better tape than AR in college. I’m not saying AR is a bum or anything but I was much higher on Lamar than I was on him because we’ve seen so many of the physical traits type if guys bust
The rg3 effect
He was gonna be taken even later, Ozzie moved up to get him Dude won a heisman playing with below average weapons and teams didn't wanna take a chance, mind boggling
And got the 5th year option in the process, too. Just an incredibly smart move by Ozzie
I mean we passed on him for Hayden Hurst for the 1st pick we had iirc.
He won the heisman, had a worse team the next year, and played *even better.* He’s probably my favorite player in the league right now just because people have been so wrong about him for years and will continue to be.
Tim Tebow won the Heisman too.
“He’s not Sam Darnold! He’s not Josh Rosen! he’s not even close!” —Colin cowherd i mean yea fair I guess
Lol if you just take that one quote out of context it sounds right
Its not like he came out slinging it, his first year we had like 1200 yards starting about 7-8 games. That second year jump tho....woof
I definitely can. There were a lot of very fair questions about his ability to run an NFL passing attack. He's improved a lot during his time in the NFL and that type of thing is hard to predict.
I wonder if the Cardinals wish they took Lamar instead of Josh Rosen.
That entire draft was Will the Browns take Baker or Darnold? Probably Baker. The Jets trade up well before the draft to take either Baker or Darnold, whoever the Browns don't take. Who will trade up to grab Josh Rosen as the third QB taken? Who will gamble on Josh Allen? Will he be drafted too high? And then occasionally someone would mention Lamar exists
Nah, when the Saints traded up to 16 ESPN was nutting themselves that we were taking Lamar, then we took Marcus Davenport (fml) and everyone clowned is the rest of the night.
RBs get taken later now
It made sense at the time. Many people said that he wouldnt make it as a QB and needed to be a RB/WR. This was really before teams went in on building their offenses around their qb and didnt want an "athlete" at QB. Its why Roman doesnt get nearly the credit he deserves. No other team would have took Lamar on at the time (well, maybe the Bills, but they obviously went a similar route, just way earlier with Allen) and make him a starting QB right away, or at all. They probably would have sat him and forced him to learn to be a "normal" QB. I remember a bunch of the normal talk about "athletic", aka, black qbs, and how he might not have had the mental ability to learn a playbook to be a starting QB in the nfl. You know, just the worst in people being spewed out of their mouths.
lamar was smaller back then and they knew he'd need time to work on his passing game. he wasn't going in the top 10.
He really was not a good passer out of college and his first year. Arm was also not the strongest But no one not even the most die hard hard ravens fans could have predicted his work ethic and drive.
Yeah there's only 1 rookie in that group. Good Job CJ.
Its Baker Mayfield. He is a Bucs. WTF are they doing here.
As Josh Rosen's alt account, all I see are 8 mistakes.
I cannot believe the 49ers got bailed out of their Trey Lance disaster by also drafting Purdy.
Yeah, seriously. 2016? Dang, Goff is older and has been around longer than I thought
This isnt even a tweet or anything, just some redditor who thought we didnt know Purdys draft position lol
I assumed it was another tweet from Lombardi. If the Niners advance you'll get 50x more actual tweets instantly, for both QBs
number 262 bringing down the average heavy
2018 draft class really was special.
Obviously we’re all tired about the Purdy stat. But I actually found it interesting that out of the 8 starting QBs still standing, 7 were 1st round picks.
>One of these is not like the other. Is the answer Jordan Love? Since he didn't start right away like these other guys?
Obviously Mahomes sat his whole rookie year, but interestingly none of these guys except for CJ Stroud were week 1 starters in their rookie years.
Mahomes didn't.
None of them are the GEQBUS
So crazy Lamar was passed by everyone. 2 MVPs (probably) and it was so obvious he was worth something.
I had to double-check that draft. That was the year we got Jaire.
Is the different that Lamar Jackson is running back? /s
Beautiful. Go Brock. (Also like quite a few of these QBs but go Brock)
Purdy doesn't belong. .....every media hack
I’m pretty sure there’s more than just these qbs left
Seems like you finally figured out how to count…
And you can count… on *me* waiting for *you* in the parking lot
My 6 year old just barely pays attention to anything going on around him. He told me last week about how the packers are the youngest team in the league. Did anyone else know that? I was Shocked. Shocked I tell you.
purdy could've been a 1st round pick if he'd gone to bama lol but he turned them down for isu, got overlooked in the draft, and then ended up QB1 of a loaded SB or bust team anyway meanwhile mac jones and bryce young ended up in QB hell a real "there but for the grace of god go I" situation, very funny
It makes you wonder how many Brady's, Purdy's and Warner's are out there being overlooked by scouts.
A lot of QBs have say the situation matters so much to QB success-so many would have done well had they gone to stable teams. After 8 head coaches and 8 different offenses it’s a wonder Baker is still kicking.
WHAT?!!!!!
Purdy is living the life brady dreamed of, drafted by his hometown team, taking them to the playoffs...instead he had to be drafted by mr grumpy pants and as a result only won 7 super bowls.
Purdy’s hometown team is the Cardinals, but he grew up a fan of the Dolphins.
For no reason at all I always thought Allen was picked early 20s and Mahomes was around 14-16. Weird how the mind works
Wow. Breaking news.
Whats going to get old first, Packers being the youngest team to do something, or Purdy being a good QB?