I get a Cutlerian vibe from this guy. Seems to be built like a franchise QB. Powerful arm, some beautiful passes, perfect bodytype. But he is lacking an "it" factor, is he not? He's not a world-beating, overcome-the-odds, particularly spiriting QB. Looks like he could have an okay career in the NFL in which he wins nothing of consequence.
Well if there was one Andy Reid QB in this entire draft, it's Trubisky, isn't it? Super accurate, doesn't take too many risks with the ball, is very mentally tough and very athletic. He's a slam dunk for the Chiefs to trade up for, if he lasts to the 20s, but in a QB-starved NFL with at least 6 new head coaches looking for their QB, there's no chance he lasts to us. [Reply]
Bruce Arians may not be coaching the Arizona Cardinals anymore, but that doesn’t mean he’s not still invested in the game he coached for 42 years.
In an interview with Josh Weinfuss of ESPN.com at the Waste Management Open on Wednesday, Arians spoke glowingly about the group of college quarterbacks eligible to be drafted in April.
“Oh, I think it’s outstanding,” Arians said. “Maybe the best in 15 or 20 years. The number of quality guys with height, stature, arms, statistics… I really wish I had the chance to meet each and every one and do all the evaluations but I think right now you could be sitting at 14 and get a quarterback. People are going to start trading up and everything but there’s enough quality guys to go around for everybody.
Arians’ former team needs a quarterback following the retirement of Carson Palmer after the season. They will certainly be one of the teams pouring time into evaluations of all of the quarterbacks available in the class.
Arians said there’s a lot of quarterbacks that have made an impression on him from this year’s crop.
“Talent-wise, I mean, Sam Darnold, Josh Rosen, (Josh) Allen,” he said. “Baker (Mayfield) has that charisma. I love Lamar Jackson. I think he’s got an unbelievable skill set. Mason Rudolph beat my (Virginia Tech) Hokies with that deep ball and he may have the best deep ball of all of them. You could go on and on.”
Originally Posted by Quesadilla Joe:
If Elway does sign Cousins, he's going to use this great crop of QB's as leverage to drive Cousins' asking price down.
lolwut?
Elway: Hey Cousins....we're going to need you to sign for less than $25 million.
Cousins: Uhhh....why's that?
Elway: Because we'll just draft Josh Allen and start him.
If Denver is the only team after Cousins, maybe. Is that likely to be the case?
No, but his biggest suitors all have top 6 picks in the draft.
If they also think this is the best QB draft in 20 years, I'm sure they'd rather pay a guy like Mayfield $29M over 4 years than give Cousins $29M every year for 4 years.
"I will say this Patrick Mahomes was 25x better prospect in my mind than Josh Allen and Andy Reid knows what he is doing with QBs, so Chiefs should be fine." - Robert Littal
Originally Posted by Quesadilla Joe:
If Elway does sign Cousins, he's going to use this great crop of QB's as leverage to drive Cousins' asking price down.
Sorry, but you don't know fucking shit about "leverage" in NFL player negotiations.
Since Manning left, every time Elway has tried to drive down the price on a player, that player has told Elway to go fuck himself.
The NFL doesn't work the way you think it does. It's not a fucking game of Monopoly. [Reply]
