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<div>As for the question of being Johnny being 'pro-ready', let's at least agree on this Jaguars fans: He's far more ready for primetime, the big moment, the big game, and the 'big-stage', than Bridgewater, Carr, and Bortles, maybe combined. Just by the sheer fact that for the last 2-seasons Manziel is the only quarterback of those 4 who has been playing against top-teer competition, the best of the best, the 'big boys' in the major conferences, where the best defenses play and who send the most players to the nfl each year(not to mention that Johnny's been breaking records and winning heismans while doing it).
 
How then are these 3-other qbs, playing against much lesser competition that Johnny would sneeze at, considered more 'pro-ready' than Johnny? I mean sure, we can talk adnauseum about Manziel's size/durability/arm-strength. But those are all the same things teams like Texas, Florida, TCU, and others underestimated Manziel for when they offered his scholarships, but none as a quarterback. Hasn't he proven by now that those perceived limitations are in fact not limitations. He's faced the very best, in the very best conference, and done better statistically than any other quarterback in history whose tried. Sadly, something we haven't even seen the other 3-qbs even have a chance to try.
 
So you ask me honestly then: How did these 3-other qbs, from smaller conferences, who most haven't even seen their games since most aren't televised in primetime, suddenly jump Johnny come draft time on most people's big boards? Well the problem is very simple: We live in a quarterback driven/centric league, where many teams(including us) are starving for a franchise guy. But this creates a problem where the supply doesn't meet the demand, and from that we get something called 'reaching', in particular for qbs higher than they are actually worth(think the Gabbert-draft all over again). And suddenly, in this supply-and-demand fiasco, it seems some of us have gone mad.
 
We start saying things on our big draft-boards like: "Bridgewater, Carr, and Bortles will all go in the top 10, or at the very least in the first round". But when has that happened? Three small conference qbs going in the first round like that? Never that I can remember. I personally can think of only two qbs from small colleges(flacco and smith) who have gone in the first round in the last 9-years combined. Please don't reach for a small-conference guy just because they are there Jaguars fans. Because you see, it doesn't matter how good they've looked in the games, they are playing virtually against highschool teams. Perhaps ask yourself this question and it might help: How many safeties that Teddy played against this year will be in the nfl next year? How about Carr, how many defensive linemen did he face that will be in the nfl next year? Johnny's been doing what he does in the most nfl-rich training grounds in all of college football. 
 
And so what does 'pro-ready' mean to me? Well it certainly doesn't mean you fit the pro-mold requirements for size, arm strength, durability, or any of those things. Because if that's what you're looking for then, sign Gabbert to another 10-years. No, no; what Pro-ready means to me is that I have seen this guy with my own eyes already go up against the very best competition he possibly can, against guys who are playing at the highest level possible, who will literally be playing in the nfl next year. And in that way, if we are honest with ourselves, we will admit that Teddy, Bortles, and Carr have been playing in the minor leagues. Now that doesn't mean they won't be great someday(I especially think Teddy will be). But this talk of being ready for the pros is deceiving. The fact is that Johnny has went up against and quite simply destroyed defensive players in the SEC week in and week out, who many consider to be the future of the nfl. While Teddy, Bortles, and Carr have been carving up defenses, most of which will be working at Home Depot next year. Regardless, they are no less, and certainly no more ready for the pros than Johnny.
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