Quote: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: 

 

 

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.

 

Bortles is not an elite NFL quarterback prospect. You don't draft a non-elite player with the third pick of the first round.

 

An NFL elite quarterback prospect is one that possesses all of the quarterback skills refined to the elite level of play. There can be zero questions about his talent. He must have the size, arm, throwing mechanics, physical strength, mental aptitude, maturity, and durability to play NFL QB at the highest level and there can be no question that he is a leader of men.

 

An NFL elite quarterback prospect is one that by consensus of the NFL scouting community makes the team that drafts him immediate Super Bowl contenders year in and year out.

 

Since 1990 (23 years), there have been 13 quarterbacks taken with the first pick of the draft.

 

1990 Jeff George - 0 Super Bowl wins

1993 Drew Bledsoe - 0 Super Bowl Wins

1998 Peyton Manning - 1 Super Bowl wins

2001 Michael Vick - 0 Super Bowl wins

2002 - David Carr - 0 Super Bowl wins

2003 - Carson Palmer - 0 Super Bowl wins

2004 - Eli Manning - 2 Super Bowl wins

2005 - Alex Smith - 0 Super Bowl wins

2007 - JaMarcus Russell - 0 Super Bowl wins

2009 - Matthew Stafford - 0 Super Bowl wins

2010 - Sam Bradford - 0 Super Bowl wins

2011 - Cam Newton - 0 Super Bowl wins

2012 - Andrew Luck  - 0 Super Bowl wins

 

From 1970 to 1998 (28 years) there were 6 quarterbacks taken with the first pick of the NFL Draft.

 

1970 Terry Bradshaw - 4 Super Bowl wins

1971 Jim Plunkett - 2 Super Bowl wins

1975 Steve Bartkowski - 0 Super Bowl wins

1983 John Elway - 2 Super Bowl wins

1987 Vinnie Testaverde - 0 Super Bowl wins

1989 Troy Aikman - 3 Super Bowl wins

 

The difference in total Super Bowl wins between the two groups is significant. Nearly one third of Super Bowl titles were won by just six former number one over-all draft picks quarterback between 1970 and 1998. Only two of those former number one over-all quarterbacks failed to win a single Super Bowl.

 

Since 1990 the first pick of the draft is a crowded house full of quarterbacks. Over fifty percent of all number one over-all picks are now quarterbacks. Yet in twenty-three years since 1990, former number one over-all draft pick quarterbacks account for just three Super Bowl wins. Only two former number one over-all quarterbacks have Super Bowl wins.

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