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  • after the sam Bradford comment y'all should have caught on that pro days don't mean shit.

  • You are stupidly missing the point. Pro days are a small indicator. Nobody said

    pro days were the only factor.

    If a guy runs a 4.6, and a 4.5 at the combine, and then runs a 4.38 at his pro day...

    do you think the 4.38 means nothing? Go look at the faster time Braxton Miller

    ran at his pro day.

  • You are stupidly missing the point. Pro days are a small indicator. Nobody said

    pro days were the only factor.

    If a guy runs a 4.6, and a 4.5 at the combine, and then runs a 4.38 at his pro day...

    do you think the 4.38 means nothing? Go look at the faster time Braxton Miller

    ran at his pro day.

    @calfoxwc said:

    You are stupidly missing the point. Pro days are a small indicator. Nobody said

    pro days were the only factor.

    If a guy runs a 4.6, and a 4.5 at the combine, and then runs a 4.38 at his pro day...

    do you think the 4.38 means nothing? Go look at the faster time Braxton Miller

    ran at his pro day.

    Just make your point. What did Miller run? At combine and at pro day.

  • 2) Joe Haden

    Haden went into the 2010 combine graded as the draft’s top cornerback and a sure first-round pick out of Florida. He disappointed with a 4.57 40 and 35-inch vertical jump, leading to some speculation that he might drop towards the end of the first round. He didn’t. The Browns took him with the seventh overall pick and Haden has now made two Pro Bowls.

    With that preamble out of the way, multiple NFL reporters at Tebowfest Florida’s Pro Day write that cornerback Joe Haden ran in the high 4.3’s/low 4.4’s.

    That is a huge improvement on Haden’s sssslow time he ran at the combine. Whether it erases the perception Haden lacks speed is another matter.

  • @calfoxwc said:

    You are stupidly missing the point. Pro days are a small indicator. Nobody said

    pro days were the only factor.

    If a guy runs a 4.6, and a 4.5 at the combine, and then runs a 4.38 at his pro day...

    do you think the 4.38 means nothing? Go look at the faster time Braxton Miller

    ran at his pro day.

    Just make your point. What did Miller run? At combine and at pro day.

  • pro days CAN mean a lot. But not everything, by any stretch.

  • Really good showing, but...

    ... the gap I see that still leads me to Goff cannot be closed in a Pro Day...

  • True, it's all factors. I guess I really am impressed with Wentz's intangibles, as much as I

    think he has that as well, over Goff. Just seems that way to me.

  • I could have written much of this, but even I am not cruel enough to have written it all. It made me wince a few times and a couple of the play critiques do not ring true. Nonetheless it captures many of the summary elements that in total represent the gap I see between Wentz and Goff.

    The Warts of Carson Wentz March 27, 2016 Cian Fahey 

    http://presnapreads.com/2016/03/27/the-warts-of-carson-wentz/

    There are gifs a plenty illustrating the various points the writer makes.

    Here are a few of the writer's conclusion that I also saw from the beginning:

    • Throwing receivers open isn’t something Wentz does. He didn’t need to do it against the defenses he faced in college. Wentz would try to fit the ball over defenders, but was still rifling the ball rather than throwing with controlled elevation.
    • He repeatedly throws the ball to where he sees the receiver rather than where the receiver is going.
    • It’s not just that Wentz runs out of clean pockets either, he doesn’t feel pressure around him unless it arrives in his line of sight.
    • Wentz primarily gets rid of the ball to his first read. He’s not exceptionally efficient doing this but he is better the quicker he gets rid of the ball. When he holds onto the ball and moves his eyes from one side of the field to the other, his play becomes looser.
  • Sure, Wentz isn't perfect. Neither was rapistbooger. I do believe that Wentz is excellently coachable,

    excellent athletic, and excellently very, very smart. Ya can't coach intangibles... and I wonder about

    Goff having them. Yes, these were the negatives about rapistbooger. Wentz is the superior qb,

    especially when compared to what rapistbooger was when he was nearing the draft.

    ************************************************************

    http://bigben7.com/bens-path-to-the-draft-part-i/

    Negatives –

    A pocket passer with marginal mobility and cannot escape the rush. Must improve his downfield accuracy as well as the placement of the outs. Majority of snaps are taken out of the shotgun.

    “In 2004, Big Ben entered the draft as a junior and did not have the benefit of postseason All Star Games. His draft grade was heavily reliant on the combine and he did not perform well. He was inaccurate with his passes throughout his workout and as a result became the third quarterback chosen in the ’04 draft.”
    — Sports Illustrated,
    posted February 20, 2009.
  • I could have written much of this, but even I am not cruel enough to have written it all. It made me wince a few times and a couple of the play critiques do not ring true. Nonetheless it captures many of the summary elements that in total represent the gap I see between Wentz and Goff.

    The Warts of Carson Wentz March 27, 2016 Cian Fahey 

    http://presnapreads.com/2016/03/27/the-warts-of-carson-wentz/

    There are gifs a plenty illustrating the various points the writer makes.

    Here are a few of the writer's conclusion that I also saw from the beginning:

    • Throwing receivers open isn’t something Wentz does. He didn’t need to do it against the defenses he faced in college. Wentz would try to fit the ball over defenders, but was still rifling the ball rather than throwing with controlled elevation.
    • He repeatedly throws the ball to where he sees the receiver rather than where the receiver is going.
    • It’s not just that Wentz runs out of clean pockets either, he doesn’t feel pressure around him unless it arrives in his line of sight.
    • Wentz primarily gets rid of the ball to his first read. He’s not exceptionally efficient doing this but he is better the quicker he gets rid of the ball. When he holds onto the ball and moves his eyes from one side of the field to the other, his play becomes looser.

    @tour2ma said:

    I could have written much of this, but even I am not cruel enough to have written it all. It made me wince a few times and a couple of the play critiques do not ring true. Nonetheless it captures many of the summary elements that in total represent the gap I see between Wentz and Goff.

    The Warts of Carson Wentz March 27, 2016 Cian Fahey 

    http://presnapreads.com/2016/03/27/the-warts-of-carson-wentz/

    There are gifs a plenty illustrating the various points the writer makes.

    Here are a few of the writer's conclusion that I also saw from the beginning:

    • Throwing receivers open isn’t something Wentz does. He didn’t need to do it against the defenses he faced in college. Wentz would try to fit the ball over defenders, but was still rifling the ball rather than throwing with controlled elevation.
    • He repeatedly throws the ball to where he sees the receiver rather than where the receiver is going.
    • It’s not just that Wentz runs out of clean pockets either, he doesn’t feel pressure around him unless it arrives in his line of sight.
    • Wentz primarily gets rid of the ball to his first read. He’s not exceptionally efficient doing this but he is better the quicker he gets rid of the ball. When he holds onto the ball and moves his eyes from one side of the field to the other, his play becomes looser.

    Went through all of the link Tour. It does give you plenty of food for thought. Carson was largely operating from a clean pocket against D II secondaries. NFL CBs will be a lot more attentive, and you to have to have anticipation where your receiver will be when he breaks open. I noticed in some other tape, Wentz rarely had to go through a full progression to find someone wide open. Might be enough to tilt me over to the Goff side of the fence.

  • Only a fool would pick Wentz over Goff.

  • Only a fool would pick Goff, if he doesn't have the intangibles like Wentz has, and

    with arm strength that won't make it in the wind and rain.

    Just not sold on Goff, except for he's very polished, and a lot more ready to play immediately.

    The Browns don't have to worry about that.

  • Only a fool would pick Goff, if he doesn't have the intangibles like Wentz has, and

    with arm strength that won't make it in the wind and rain.

    Just not sold on Goff, except for he's very polished, and a lot more ready to play immediately.

    The Browns don't have to worry about that.

    @calfoxwc said:

    Only a fool would pick Goff, if he doesn't have the intangibles like Wentz has, and

    with arm strength that won't make it in the wind and rain.

    Just not sold on Goff, except for he's very polished, and a lot more ready to play immediately.

    The Browns don't have to worry about that.

    If I have no idea what either players' "intangibles" are, then does that make them equal?

    Their arm strength is not very different. I thought Wentz had the stronger arm as well, but then Goff won the fast ball competition at the Combine.

    Wentz's lack of readiness to play may not concern you in 2016 ... but by 2018 you will be very concerned.

    I take the guy I know can play now because he has already shown he has taken that last QB step. That in a word is the gap...

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  • @PFF_College

    Carson Wentz adjusted completion percentage:

    11-20 yard range: 70.7% (2nd in draft class

    21-30 yard range: 43.5% (23rd in draft class)

  • Great read:

    http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/15158945/does-north-dakota-state-qb-carson-wentz-really-add-20m

    Maybe it means nothing. Maybe they'll draft someone else instead. But as he's walking toward Jackson, both of them already eager to catch a plane, Hamilton can't resist catching Jackson's eye and offering his silent, one-word review: Wow.
  • I was watching Detone Jones, DE, of the Packers talk about

    Aaron Rodgers. He said Rodgers was so great because

    he was really, really smart....that he got his wr's to learn the defenses,

    won the celebrity trivia game whatever it was.....

    Wentz is a whole lot like Rodgers. Doesn't matter that much that Goff is

    the best pure passer in the draft.

    There's a hell of a lot more to qb'ing that just being the best passer.

    Wentz has it all.

  • Yeah.... who wants the "best passer"? Yuck...

    That was a good read... very well written article.

  • Yeah.... who wants the "best passer"? Yuck...

    That was a good read... very well written article.

    @tour2ma said:

    Yeah.... who wants the "best passer"? Yuck...

    That was a good read... very well written article.

    Well, I understand what he means. Brandon Weeden was probably the best "pure passer" his year.....but obviously there is a lot more to being a QB than having a good arm.