There's plenty of precedent of college QBs with raw talent putting it all together in the NFL but not in college.
Case in point, the two best QBs in the league this year, Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes.
Should teams be banking on drafting QBs and on the Mahomes/Allen plan? I think that's debatable. But it's just wrong to act like it's completely unprecedented.
The difference between the Titans and the Colts is that the Titans missed on a 2nd round pick and the Colts missed in an identical way on the 4th overall pick. Vols fans who don't watch or know anything about the NFL want to act like it was some incomprehensible blunder that the Titans picked Levis. If there was even a 10% chance they could put Levis on the Josh Allen track to bring a franchise QB it was worth the risk as an early 2nd rounder. That's how the game is played in a world with the draft salary rules. The cost is so low, it's worth taking chances on QBs, even if the GM would freely admit behind closed doors that the probability of those picks working out is low.
And then there's the fact that in my entire lifetime there's been two "can't miss" prospects in Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck. It's hardly a skill to "predict" a QB to bust. They almost all bust, no matter where they are picked.
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There's plenty of precedent of college QBs with raw talent putting it all together in the NFL but not in college.
Case in point, the two best QBs in the league this year, Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes.
Should teams be banking on drafting QBs and on the Mahomes/Allen plan? I think that's debatable. But it's just wrong to act like it's completely unprecedented.
The difference between the Titans and the Colts is that the Titans missed on a 2nd round pick and the Colts missed in an identical way on the 4th overall pick. Vols fans who don't watch or know anything about the NFL want to act like it was some incomprehensible blunder that the Titans picked Levis. If there was even a 10% chance they could put Levis on the Josh Allen track to bring a franchise QB it was worth the risk as an early 2nd rounder. That's how the game is played in a world with the draft salary rules. The cost is so low, it's worth taking chances on QBs, even if the GM would freely admit behind closed doors that the probability of those picks working out is low.
And then there's the fact that in my entire lifetime there's been two "can't miss" prospects in Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck. It's hardly a skill to "predict" a QB to bust. They almost all bust, no matter where they are picked.
It was 100% an incomprehensible blunder. Maybe not the worst blunder since we drafted him in the second, but in my days he is easily the most overhyped prospect I've ever seen. I couldn't believe the AR pick by the Colts either.
Who other than Josh Allen sucked ass that badly and made it in the NFL? And he still maybe flashed more than Levis.
Levis who had far better development against far better competition from HS through college. Benched at Penn St. Good coaches like Liam Coen at UK. Even in his best game in 2021 against our HORRENDOUS defense he still threw a telegraphed pick 6.
Allen didn't go to football camps, played in a tiny single A town in middle of nowhere CA, went to a tiny JUCO and played at Wyoming. Has a bigger arm and is a better athlete than Levis.
Most importantly, Levis had catastrophic turnover after catastrophic turnover that has costed every team he's been on time and time again. There is zero precedent for a guy getting over that to put it all together to WIN A SUPER BOWL. It's never happened and it would be a miracle if it did.
Think of the probability. How do you get a guy like Levis to stop with the egregious TO's? It's just like JG.
JG did that here for every coach, at WSU, in the NFL and the USFL (or whatever)
Levis should have been a late round pick. Total waste of time playing those odds. Insane.
It's wearing a mask to walk 5 feet to the bathroom logic.
