Quote:Tajh Boyd is a product of Watkins and Hopkins, notice his decline in play this year after losing Hopkins? He looked like he didn't know what he was doing at the Senior bowl, as for McCarron and Shaw I do not know enough about them to make any sort of analysis here. 

Boyd may have had a few 'hiccups' in his last season(FSU game/Senior bowl), but I think his truly stellar collegiate career as a whole speaks for itself. I mean doesn't he hold pretty much every Clemson and ACC record at the QB position, and didn't he in his last 'real game' against OHio state set like the record for most total yards in an orange-bowl game in history? I think the kid would be a real steal in the late rounds. Especially if we got Watkins at #3 and Boyd later, we could get the old gang back together  :thumbsup:

As for Shaw and McCarron, these guys IMO were just tireless workhorses who never really got the credit they deserved. Who for the most part were overshadowed by their coaches(both Saban and Spurrier are celebrities in their own rights), and their teams defenses(Alabama D for McCarron and Clowney for Shaw)

 

 

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How exactly did Boyds decline?

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He didn't, he's just not the flavor of the month for the NFL like some of these late-draft-risers like Bottles. Very few QB-prospects in this draft have even half the resume that Boyd does.

 

 

Quote:I thought we moved on from the small school obsessed Gene era.

I thought that too 

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