(08-08-2017, 07:34 PM)B2hibry Wrote:

(08-08-2017, 07:04 PM)he I am Yoda Wrote: I like Blake.  He's a stand up guy.  Responsible, humble, hard worker.  I think he's going to improve and be a serviceable starter, in the vein of Alex Smith or Andy Dalton.  When he gets there, we will be proud of him.

But I think in the next five years we're going to look back at this draft and be sorry we didn't get Deshaun Watson.  Watson's got *it*.  And the reports out of Houston are that's he's really smart and a surprisingly accurate passer.  Of course, getting Watson would mean that we would not have either Cam or Leonard.  And from what I read and the clips I've seen, I think Leonard is going to be special.  But we should have rolled big and traded back up to get Watson.

I'm sure Watson does look good in training camp. O'brien's butt depends on it! Wait until that game speed hits him, and he is going against a team that has an actual back seven. His old bad habits will come to the surface. He will be a Tyrod Taylor clone.

The heat on Blake right now is only because of the interceptions. He was drafted knowing the gamer mentality and took chances with the occasional bad decision. Heck, Farve made a living doing the same exact thing. The fan pressure will subside with more wins. If the expectation is that Blake should be a Manning or Brady, then that is simply ignorant. At best, he will be a decent game manager and always have poor mechanics.

Only question I have in Watsons game is if he has the arm strength to make all the throws routinely.  Loved watching him in college, I am looking forward to seeing him in the nfl.

(08-08-2017, 07:48 PM)mvannostran Wrote: I don't understand people saying he'll "be like Alex Smith" as a bad thing. He's 41-20 since going to KC. Brady is 47-13 over the same stretch.

I don't think those are good comps for him.  Both are efficient passers with decent arms and one of them doesn't attack anything beyond 20 yards.  I see him more as a Culpepper/Roethlisberger type.  It may take him years to become an efficient passer but he is also a big play gunslinger.  Heck Brady didn't become the cerebral QB with monster numbers until he was in the league 8 years.  Before that his peak was 28 tds and Blake has already put up a season with 35.  We are just impatient and win starved and believe too much of what the nfl and media say about our team and qb.  The guy is going into his 4th year and possibly his 1st with a decent running game to support him.

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