Quote:Either you never went to college or youre ignorant. Pick one. 

Actually, I did graduate from college, and I'm not sure what referring to an alcohol abuser with an ego the size of Texas as "Johnny Alcohol" is...

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/colleg...-1.1413188

http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...rew-tieman

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/201...unraveled/

 

Might I take a quote from his own father in the third link: 

 

Quote:“Yeah, it could come unraveled. And when it does, it’s gonna be bad. Real bad,” Paul Manziel said. “It’s one night away from the phone ringing, and he’s in jail. And you know what he’s gonna say? ‘It’s better than all the pressure I’ve been under. This is better than that.’

 

So you're telling me that, with the third pick in the draft, you want to select an alcoholic QB with anger issues (Kerry Collins, anyone?) whose own father believes that he'd be happier in jail than in a stadium? And you're going to tell me with a straight face that drafting this player and adding him to a team that now regards its perpetually-suspended star receiver, also an alcoholic, as a "luxury" rather than a building block is a good idea?

 

I'd take Bortles over Alcohol. I'd take almost any QB in this class over Alcohol, because when Johnny pulls a surprise retirement two years in, or when he gets suspended indefinitely for peeing out more whiskey than urine during a drug test, or when he gets thrown in jail for a DUI wreck, those other QBs will, for the most part, have made it or tanked on their athletic ability and desire to play the game, not washed out early because they took the paycheck then realized that they didn't want to be there in the first place.

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