Quote:I agree more with the second paragraph than the first.  He's overrated around here for many reasons, the foremost being we actually need a QB and the season really started out pretty hopeless.  I still figure the Sugar Bowl performance is in the mix, and I'm sticking to it.

 

This is my only message board, so I have no idea how he's viewed elsewhere. 

 

The attention we gave him here was completely overboard and comical, though.  It crossed the line into embarrassing and undignified when we hit 0-8.

 

Perhaps it was overboard and comical, as you put it, but it doesn't make it illogical.

 

If there was zero logic or substance to the enthusiasm over Bridgewater, and it was borne out of our desperation for a QB, then there would be a more random and possibly equal distribution of enthusiasm over various QB candidates.

 

It wouldn't matter if they could actually play QB at the NFL level, as long as they were QBs.  Some would still like Bridgewater.  Some would advocate Mettenberger...some would advocate Boyd.  Some would push for guys we never heard of.

 

Just as long as they played the position, they would have fans here.

 

But we all know that isn't true. 

 

Mock draft after mock draft, whether done by some guy with a computer or by more established sources almost uniformly have Bridgewater as a top 5 pick, and most have him as a top 3 pick at this stage.

 

Color analysts who have broadcast Louisville games have spoken in glowing terms over Bridgewater, and I'm sure they aren't all desperate Jaguars fans or myopic Gator homers. 

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