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Originally Posted by O.city
TBH, with Barkley's arm strength, he's going to have to become Brees like in his decision making and accuracy. I'm not sure I see that, but I also don't know that his arm is that weak.
I am trying to like Manuel. But watching that offense this year, it's really hard. He's a guy I'd love us to take if we had a starter already, say the Texans situation.
My thing about Barkley is, how much more upside does he have? I think that is whats always been the problem with USC QB's. They've played around great talent and they're pretty well coached (arguable with Barkley) and they just don't have much more space between where they are and their ceiling.
Thats why I'd take Smith at 1, in that I think he showed this weekend that with the mechanical fixes, his arm strength has the potential to be pretty stellar, paired with his accuracy he could be lethal.
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You sum up my feeling about USC quartebacks perfectly. These guys all look like world beaters becasue they literally have the best receivers, linemen, and running backs around them. USC generally beats everyone's ass, save Stanford and UCLA (
). They never really get pushed all that much in college, then they come to the NFL and face far superior talent than they did in school, and look pretty average against it.
(Yes, I know USC was pretty pedestrian this year by their standards, but my point remains)