I really have never seen such a wave of personal vitriol for a QB prospect in quite some time.
This is
different. This appears to be a calculated sabotage campaign.
“Name me a Notre Dame quarterback lately that’s flourished in the NFL,” an executive in personnel for an NFC team said this month. “Just name one. Oh, Joe Theismann. Yeah, that was recently.”
Okay clown, name the first great NFL QB from North Carolina.
Kizer entered the 2016 season with high hopes, having started the final 11 games as a redshirt freshman the year before for a club that finished a surprising 10-3.
“This is a team that will likely be favored in their first 11 games,” wrote Phil Steele in his College Football Preview. “That could put them 11-0 when they travel to USC for a game with probably playoff implications … they are a legitimate national title contender.”
Well, if 'Phil Steele's says it, it must be worth quoting as the truth huh
“You look at that team, they’ve got players,” an AFC personnel man said. “There’s no way they should win just four games. It was because of this guy, the quarterback. Boy, at times he looked bad. He was so bad against Stanford in the first half that they benched him.”
You'd swear Kizer the only QB who had a bad game, ever. These clowns keep talking about this Stanford game like it was a blowout. Notre Dame lost 17-10. Maybe Kelley should have left Kizer in the game, they might've won.
He is the classic boom or bust,” said an AFC evaluator. “In terms of arm strength, athleticism, talent, intelligence, he’s the highest-end guy. At the same time, he’s also the one with the most flaws.”
Classic boom or bust? That sounds like code speak to me. If Kizer is 'classic' boom or bust, what does that make Mitch Trubisky? You know, the media's unanimous top QB prospect despite being a one year starter?
Evaluators were asked to rank the quarterbacks on a 1-to-5 basis, with a first-place vote worth five points, a second worth four and so on.
In a tight three-way battle, North Carolina's Mitchell Trubisky led the way with 61 points (four firsts) followed by Clemson's Deshaun Watson (58, six) and Texas Tech's Patrick Mahomes (56, five).
Kizer was fourth with 32 points and one first, followed by California's Davis Webb (23), Pittsburgh's Nathan Peterman (five), Iowa's C.J. Beathard (two), Virginia Tech's Jerod Evans (two) and Miami's Brad Kaaya (one)
All this Trubisky love... based on what?
“I really don’t like any of them [QBs],” one longtime executive said. “Maybe two will go in the first round because of need but they all have holes. It’s, like, ‘Let’s see if we can develop them and get something out of them.’ It’s one of the worst groups I’ve watched in a long time.”
Of course you don't like them, three of the top four QB prospects are black. Not a coincidence.
A common refrain among scouts was that Kizer possesses more physical gifts than any quarterback in the draft. “Athletic, strong arm, nice release, throws a nice deep ball, can move in the pocket,” one scout said.
An equally heard assessment of Kizer’s shortcomings centered on what is widely perceived to be his questionable reason for playing football.
“He’s not as good as he should be because he’s not committed to the game,” said one AFC executive. “He’s committed to building a brand. He wants all the things that come with being a starting quarterback but doesn’t want to put in the work.”
An NFC personnel man described Kizer as a selfish player worried mostly about status and money.
“That’s what drives him,” said the executive. “It’s all about him. Prima donna. Thin-skinned
He's not as good as he should be?
Exactly how good should he be? He just turned 21 in January. He's been to a BCS game. Has thrown 47 TDs with only 19 INTs in an offense where he throws the most advanced NFL passes in this draft.
Where was this executive when Manziel was winning Heisman trophies for beating Alabama, snorting coke and missing practices?
The stigma now attached to Notre Dame quarterbacks is perhaps less daunting than the dubious success rate of heavy-set quarterbacks.
Of the 18, only four – Daunte Culpepper, Ben Roethlisberger, Cam Newton and Andrew Luck – have been voted to the Pro Bowl. Sam Bradford and Joe Flacco have played near Pro Bowl levels at times, and the jury’s out on second-year men Carson Wentz and Paxton Lynch.
The thick-bodied busts in Round 1 since 1997 include Jim Druckenmiller, Ryan Leaf, Kyle Boller, Byron Leftwich, Brady Quinn, JaMarcus Russell, Josh Freeman, Tim Tebow, Blaine Gabbert and E.J. Manuel.
New code terms brehs -- "dubious success rate of heavy-set/thick-bodied QBs"
. nikkas gonna always hate the young king.
