Former Notre Dame quarterback DeShone Kizer is certainly not lacking for confidence.
Kizer told Tom Pelissero of USA Today that he believes he has a combination of Tom Brady’s brain and Cam Newton’s body and can put that together into one package that can be the best quarterback in NFL history.
“Name a college quarterback who goes into the game-plan meetings on Monday and throws his notes at the coaches,” Kizer said. “No one else game plans the way I do. No one else prepares the way I do. No one else knows football the way I do. No one else is as big as I am. No one else is as powerful a runner as I am. Pat Mahomes might throw the ball 80 yards and I can only throw the ball 72, but I guarantee he can’t throw an out route the way I can. No one else can do what I can do. And I’ve truly figured out in this process, if I can maximize all my potential in every aspect of the game – this is bold – I do have the ability to be the greatest quarterback to ever play. Imagine taking Brady’s intellect and Brady’s preparation and putting it on a guy with Cam Newton’s body. Why can’t I be the greatest? The only thing stopping me from it is me. That’s what’s driving me now.”
Whether Kizer actually has the same mind for football as Brady would be difficult to measure, but he doesn’t have Newton’s body: Kizer is shorter than Newton, lighter than Newton and did worse than Newton on every test of speed and agility at the Scouting Combine.
NFL teams like players with confidence, but Kizer’s confidence may come across as arrogance to some NFL teams. If there’s a case of a player taking his confidence too far, this may be it.
How many National Championships do Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Ben Roethlesburger, Andrew Luck, Russell Wilson, Derek Carr, Matt Stafford, and Phillip Rivers have combined? For that matter, how many do Trubisky, Mahomes, and Webb have? [Reply]
Originally Posted by LoneWolf:
How many National Championships do Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Ben Roethlesburger, Andrew Luck, Russell Wilson, Derek Carr, Matt Stafford, and Phillip Rivers have combined? For that matter, how many do Trubisky, Mahomes, and Webb have?
And to seal it....how many does AJ McCarron have? [Reply]
Follow link for video. Im impressed with how he handled those questions regarding his statements on Brady and Cam, as well as how he explained losing is an advantage for him. [Reply]
Follow link for video. Im impressed with how he handled those questions regarding his statements on Brady and Cam, as well as how he explained losing is an advantage for him.
So does that mean you're off the Cooper Rush hype train? [Reply]
Originally Posted by LoneWolf:
How many National Championships do Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Ben Roethlesburger, Andrew Luck, Russell Wilson, Derek Carr, Matt Stafford, and Phillip Rivers have combined? For that matter, how many do Trubisky, Mahomes, and Webb have?
So now you're saying that Kizer is the next HOF caliber QB? jfc [Reply]
Originally Posted by SAGA45:
lol! Nope! Just have a gut feeling the Chiefs draft that dude...either him or Dobbs. I'll let it go when he's on another team.
"Just a gut feeling"
Is it a gut feeling, or are you just taking the shittiest game managery QBs in a given draft class and saying, "Yup. There's Andy Reid's QB! I got a feeling, man!"
What's more is are you going to do this every fucking year? Look at all the QBs with 5th-7th round grades and pick the one with the highest floor to be the QB the Chiefs draft that year? [Reply]
Originally Posted by OldSchool:
So now you're saying that Kizer is the next HOF caliber QB? jfc
How is my calling out your comment of "so good he couldn't do shit for Notre Dame" as the dumbest fucking thing you've posted in awhile in any way me saying that Kizer is a HOF caliber QB? I was simply pointing out that most good/great QBs don't play on college teams that have a lot of success. I could have used a different list of players like Tony Romo, Kirk Cousins, Matt Stafford, and Derek Carr to make my point. [Reply]
