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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Oh, I agree with pretty much all of that. Of course, I could always say that 32 teams passed on Tom Brady multiple times, but who cares, really.
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Tom Brady didn't win the Heisman Trophy, nor was he on anyone's radar in terms of being a Franchise QB, so that's a really lame argument to make.
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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Because I completely agree that every team in the NFL looked at Lamar's body of work and decided that he probably would have trouble digesting a true NFL type offense. And they were right.
I thought they did him a disservice by starting him as early as they did. Lamar was always a project that was going to need serious seasoning before he was really ready to run a pro offense.
But they opted to take a shortcut and well here we are.
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The Ravens didn't take any "shortcuts". They knew Jackson wasn't capable of running a traditional NFL offense, knew he wasn't a pocket passer and designed an offense to best suit his abilities.
And while he may have duped NFL writers and players into thinking he was the best player in the NFL in 2019, it was clear to see that Mahomes was light years ahead of him.
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Originally Posted by Megatron96
My only thought or doubt concerning the above is that Harbaugh is not an idiot, and he's supposedly a pretty good 'quarterback whisperer.' So if he wanted Lamar, he had to have a good reason that went beyond "the guy can run really fast." Harbaugh had to believe that he could make this kid a real NFL QB.
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John Harbaugh has never been viewed as a "QB Whisperer".
He was a Special Teams coordinator for Reid in Philly before being hired by the Ravens.