WFT Quarterback Thread - Post SEASON 2021

[EdmundDorf]

Originally Posted by KI Skins Fan

Jones can make all the throws. Isn't he a bit of a statue, though? Is he mobile enough for our ideal offense?

Also, I have a problem in general in trying to imagine how a QB who has stood untouched behind a dominant OL and thrown to wide open receivers throughout his college career might do in the pros when he will be under pressure throwing to receivers who are much more closely covered.

Isn't that what Tua had?

[KI Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by EdmundDorf

Isn't that what Tua had?

Oh, has Tua made it in the NFL, then? I hadn't noticed.

[EdmundDorf]

Originally Posted by KI Skins Fan

Oh, has Tua made it in the NFL, then? I hadn't noticed.

No he hasn't but with arguably more talent around him at Alabama he was rated as a top five talent that some in the Washington fanbase wanted to draft at No 2. Personally I am not a fan of Tua and was not interested in drafting him. This year has shown him to be less spectacular without the Alabama advantage. But at 19 with some better QB traits Mac Jones is not so outrageous a pick, I wouldn't be unhappy with it though I would rather not go QB at 19, either strengthen the rest of the team or trade it for a viable starter at QB

[Scalper]

Originally Posted by KI Skins Fan

Jones can make all the throws. Isn't he a bit of a statue, though? Is he mobile enough for our ideal offense?

Also, I have a problem in general in trying to imagine how a QB who has stood untouched behind a dominant OL and thrown to wide open receivers throughout his college career might do in the pros when he will be under pressure throwing to receivers who are much more closely covered.

Good scouts and GMs can get a sense of how a QB will be in the pros. They throw out all the gravy plays, and look at the times things breakdown or he's under pressure, all QBs have such plays. While finding QBs still hard, many of the huge busts looked great on the gravy plays but horrible on the harder NFL-style plays, but scouts just ignored it.

[skinsfaninok]

[MTK]

^^ We'd be crazy to not look into it

[skinsfaninok]

Originally Posted by MTK

^^ We'd be crazy to not look into it

If this team got Wilson or Watson, it's an instant contender

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by skinsfaninok

If this team got Wilson or Watson, it's an instant contender

Yup. I think for the first time in a long time, we seem to have the pieces (top defense, good running game, star WR, and whatever other positions we acquire in free agency) to be in a position where acquiring a top QB can make us into a playoff contender.

[Scalper]

Originally Posted by skinsfaninok

If this team got Wilson or Watson, it's an instant contender

LOL.
No way.
First, why would Wilson who is complaining about blocking come here, one of the most dysfunctional franchises long-term, when we have no franchise LT, and only one above average lineman, Scherff?

We aren't getting Wilson. No one is. Houston will let him hold out before they trade him. NEVER going to happen.

Even if it did, we have a stud DL and not a single other elite unit, and only one player, McL, that any other team would honestly want or call anything approaching elite. We are 1-2 drafts from contending even with QB solved. Which is of course why trading for a QB is foolish.

The two SB teams were stacked with elite talent at every level, as were the teams that made deep playoff runs. We again beat ONE winning team this year, snuck into playoffs 7-9, losing record, got soundly beaten by the Bucs, and we're all the sudden a contender? Can I have some of what you're smoking?

If this team got Watson or Wilson, it would never contend, because it needs a TON more talent via draft, and we'd have to trade so much for these QBs that we couldn't acquire that talent.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Scalper

LOL.
No way.
First, why would Wilson who is complaining about blocking come here, one of the most dysfunctional franchises long-term, when we have no franchise LT, and only one above average lineman, Scherff?

We aren't getting Wilson. No one is. Houston will let him hold out before they trade him. NEVER going to happen.

Even if it did, we have a stud DL and not a single other elite unit, and only one player, McL, that any other team would honestly want or call anything approaching elite. We are 1-2 drafts from contending even with QB solved. Which is of course why trading for a QB is foolish.

The two SB teams were stacked with elite talent at every level, as were the teams that made deep playoff runs. We again beat ONE winning team this year, snuck into playoffs 7-9, losing record, got soundly beaten by the Bucs, and we're all the sudden a contender? Can I have some of what you're smoking?

If this team got Watson or Wilson, it would never contend, because it needs a TON more talent via draft, and we'd have to trade so much for these QBs that we couldn't acquire that talent.

We just went to the playoffs, the rest of the NFC East is going to be not so good for the next year or so. We have a lot of young talented players under rookie contracts (Terry, Gibson, Allen, Payne, Chase, Curl) or on reasonable contracts (Matty I.).

I just don't understand this hesitation to getting a top flight QB. Hell, Tampa Bay just showed how a stacked team could not succeed with shitty QB play (Winston).

[MTK]

Mac Jones seems like a career backup to me, I dunno, just doesn't get me excited

[skinsfaninok]

Originally Posted by MTK

Mac Jones seems like a career backup to me, I dunno, just doesn't get me excited

He's been compared to Eli Manning, great pocket awareness, accurate, average arm and can't move a lick

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by MTK

Mac Jones seems like a career backup to me, I dunno, just doesn't get me excited

One day I feel this exact same way* then the next day I think he's worth the risk at 19. Going to be interesting to see where he ends up.

[EdmundDorf]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

One day I feel this exact same day then the next day I think he's worth the risk at 19. Going to be interesting to see where he ends up.

He is that kind of player, better get used to it as they are all like that at 19 and above

[MTK]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

One day I feel this exact same day then the next day I think he's worth the risk at 19. Going to be interesting to see where he ends up.

I just have a hard time believing he's a top 20 prospect and would be in the top 20 on anyone's draft board. Top 50 maybe.