| 'Hamas' Jenkins |
04-28-2013 03:59 PM |
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Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla
(Post 9641529)
I've been told (on here) that franchise QBs elevate the play of everyone around them. If that is true, and Geno is a franchise QB, you should clearly take him. If you think that Geno isn't that sort of difference maker, you should take Alex due to the team around him (although it should be noted that the Chiefs were clearly worse than the Jets last season).
I doubt anyone on here will argue that Alex is a franchise/difference-maker QB.
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They do, but finding a ready-made franchise QB from day one is extremely rare.
That's a crucial difference that most Chiefs fans don't get. They want the guy who is ready to go from Day 1 and those players are almost never available.
The far more realistic avenue is to find a QB with the potential to be that kind of player and then develop him into that kind of player.
Young QBs can go to bad teams and start right away and be ok, but only if they have a good coach who understands the modern game. If you take any young QB and put him in with a coach that believes in Hermball you have a recipe for disaster.
If I was coaching a first round QB I'd almost never run on first down. I think that is the single best thing you can do for their development. The worst thing is to constantly put them in 3rd and long, which Ryan, Del Rio, John Fox, and tons of other stooges have done with overly conservative playcalling. |
