Quote:I am not the biggest Garoppolo fan. But last season Eastern Illinois played two FBS teams, San Diego State and Northern Illinois. Each made a bowl game. His team won at SDSU 40-19 and he had 360 yards passing, 3 TDs and 0 INTs. Against Northern Illinois, they lost by 4 but he had 450 yards passing, 6 TDs and 2 INTs. So in two games against solid FBS opponents, he had over 800 yards passing, 9 TDs and 2 INTs.

 

JU level competition...lol.

Let's be honest Shack, for his entire career, all the gametape we have of him, he pretty much played against junior college level players. That's just the truth brother. 

 

Honestly though, the people I feel most bad for when talking about guys like Garapolo, are the really-really talented guys who didn't have the gaudy numbers because they played the best. Guys like McCarron, Shaw, Murray, Boyd. Hell, Tajh Boyd put up over 500 all purpose yards in that last bowl game, outgaining the entire Ohio State team by 78-yards himself! Just think of what guys like that could have and would have done in the woooooeful Ohio Valley Conference. I mean honestly, these guys would have been superstars.

I truly shudder to imagine a Winston or a Manziel playing in the OVC, against the likes of Austin Peay Governors week in and week out. Surely you have to agree on some level Shack.

 

IMO, when looking at the full-body of his work, Jimmy's only truly stellar season was his senior year, and even then he completed only 66 percent of his throws. Good numbers no doubt, but if I were looking at all these draftable QBs equally, I can't possibly fathom how the quarterback who played THE worst level of competition of any QB prospect doesn't have the highest everything statistically?...

 

FYI, Manziel boasted a 69.9% in the hardest conference in the nation, and Bridgewater had a 71.1 completion percentage. Both rank in the top 4 of all QBs in Division-1.

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