Straight from NNF labs the ultimate quarterback. A look at what the ultimate NFL quarterback would look like, if only in my head.
Lets start with the mind, the ability to read defenses. From the time put it in the film room to the speed at which that person learns an offense all incorporate the brain. I think everybody can agree that the best mind in the NFL is that of Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning. If you took the mind of Peyton Manning and put it into the body of any mere mortal they would be an NFL quarterback just because of that mind.
Now let's look at everything from the neck down. The overall body build. Muscle thickness, weight, height, and strength. I think most people would agree this is the only part of the ultimate quarterback that Tim Tebow would qualify for. There has never been a more dedicated weight room warrior at the quarterback position than Tim Tebow.
Now that we have the mind and the build let's look at the first of our two intangibles, heart. The heart, the drive, the warrior mentality. The it factor that allows our ultimate qb to crush weaker players and lead his teammates to victory.
Based on that criteria I believe Brett Favre's heart and drive just barely edge out Tim Tebow. The man didn't miss a start in 17 years of playing, and many times because of raw determination was able to make a play out of nothing.
Now our second intagible is decision making, accuracy, the ability to know when to force it and when to throw it away. I have not seen a qb with a better sense of this than current offensive player of year Drew Brees. If you watch him play he knows when to throw it deep, when to throw it short, when to force it, and when to simple get rid of the ball. He has amazing pocket prescence and will turn our 6'4'' 240lbs. monstrosity of a qb into a quick thinking field general.
Then we have the right arm of JaMarcus Russell. Some people might be scratching their heads at this one, but after looking at all NFL quarterbacks their are only two quarterbacks who's arm strength comes close to that of JaMarcus Russell. Warren Moon and Brett Favre. JaMarcus might be an idiot but no one has ever questioned his physical tools, especially his arm strength. JaMarcus could throw a football throw a brick wall.....if he could hit the brick wall.
Our ultimate quarterback would have the left arm of Boomer Esiason. Think about it, we have a quarterback whou can throw threw a brick wall with either his left or right hand. Boomer has the strongest arm out of any left handed quarterback I have ever seen. The only one that has similar arm strength was Bobby Douglass of the Chicago Bears.
That leaves only his legs and I doubt that anyone would argue against Michael Vick's legs as our franken-quarterback's legs. The next closest would be Robert Griffin III but Vick's 4.33 time is simply unbeatable by a quarterback.
So this is the ultimate quarterback. We have a 6'4'' 240lb., ambidextrous workout warrior who can run a 4.33 40 yard dash and has two cannon arms. Imagine a guy who can throw the ball as hard as JaMarcus Russell with the accuracy of Drew Brees with his right arm and throw as hard as Boomer with the accuracy of Brees with his left. Who has the sheer determination as Brett Favre and the brain of Peyton Manning. Can anyone truly argue this is not the ultimate quarterback?
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Brees Gate
Yes, the addition of the word gate to scandalous activity continues. I have indeed invented "Brees Gate" detailing the most disturbing scandal of the NFL offseason.
If Tom Brady had his contract up at the end of a season could you imagine Bill Belichick not getting Tommy a new contract before the trade deadline? What about if Aaron Rodgers was in the same situation, can you imagine Ted Thompson not immediately signing Aaron Rodgers? If you said yes to the first one you are probably a Jets fan. If you said yes to the second one you are probably a bears fan, and both of you are full of wishful thinking tonight.
I would wager that not even the Carolina Panthers with unproven second year QB Cam Newton would allow him to be going on the last year of his contract past the trade deadline, much less into the offseason. So why does it seem that Mickey Loomis is stuck playing hardball with record setting quarterback Drew Brees?
The most common exscuse I hear is, "well, you know, Mr. Loomis has been busy with a bounty scandal." Too which I say, phooey! He should have had him signed before we even got into the playoffs, at least two months before any bounty scandal news.
I say if Mickey Loomis doesn't sign Drew Brees before the start of the pre-season Mickey Loomis should be fired on the spot. Now, I don't believe for one second that Drew Brees will miss any pre-season games, much less regular season games. But if he does, Loomis should be fired. It is simple the Saints are a super bowl contender with Drew Brees. Without him they are a 7-9 team if that.
So in closing, Saints fans, if Drew Brees is not signed before mandatory team activities (training camp) begin we need to call our General Manager and get the real scandal of the offseason taken care of.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
State of The Saints
The New Orleans Saints, where to begin? Well first off they don't know who their Head Coach will be next year....or who will be playing on defense...........or who their quarterback will be. Nevertheless I will attempt to describe what the saints should do this year.
The Saints most dire need is to find a pass rusher. They need to find someone to play opposite of Will Smith who can get to the quarterback. Now, I still think Cameron Jordan could develop into that type of player, but the Saints should draft another pass rusher as insurance. I like Boise State prospect Shea McClellin as a pass rushing end. A lot of people think Shea is too small to be a defensive end and would be better suited to play outside linebacker in a 34 defense. But he has been putting on extra weight since the end of last season and had an impressive combine showing. He ran a 4.62 40 yard dash, jumped a 9.5 feet broad jump, and had a 31.5 vertical jump.
Actually I lied, the Saints most pressing need is to sign Drew Brees to a long term contract before the pre-season starts. The Saints also need to draft a quarterback in the late rounds to develop behind Drew as I'm not sure if Chase Daniel is the quarterback of the future. The Saints could go after Kellen Moore of Boise State or Case Keenum from Houston. They are both quarterbacks that would fit Sean Payton's system being smaller, agile, accurate, decision makers. They also could potential draft Brock Osweiler from Arizona State to backup up Drew Brees. Osweiler is a behemoth of a man at 6'7'' but is also pretty good as a runner, running a 4.7 40 yard dash.
And a position of need that may not be quite as much in need now is linebacker. With the signings of Chris Chamberlain and Curtis Lofton the linebacking corps is looking strong next year, pending bounty suspensions. The Saints could look to solidify their linebacking corps with TCU prospect Tank Carder. He can play inside and outside and had an amazing combine running a 4.56 40 yard dash. He also had a broad jump of 10.1 feet and a vertical jump of 34.5 inches.
What really strikes me is that a guy with the talent of Vontaze Burfict could fall to the Saints in the 3rd round. His draft stock has fallen very low because of a lack luster junior year and some attitude problems. He also had a terrible combine running the slowest time out of all linebackers. Nonetheless Vontaze has the potential of being an amazing linebacker, and if you get him in the 3rd or 4th round I say the risk is worth it.
If the Saints can get Drew Brees signed to a contract soon I think they will be able to overcome the bounty penalty and win the NFC South again. Their toughest competition will come from a bit of a dark horse team in the Carolina Panthers. I could see the Saints winning 11-13 games and being in contention for a home Super Bowl if they adopt an "us versus the world" mentality and make this an advantage.
The Saints most dire need is to find a pass rusher. They need to find someone to play opposite of Will Smith who can get to the quarterback. Now, I still think Cameron Jordan could develop into that type of player, but the Saints should draft another pass rusher as insurance. I like Boise State prospect Shea McClellin as a pass rushing end. A lot of people think Shea is too small to be a defensive end and would be better suited to play outside linebacker in a 34 defense. But he has been putting on extra weight since the end of last season and had an impressive combine showing. He ran a 4.62 40 yard dash, jumped a 9.5 feet broad jump, and had a 31.5 vertical jump.
Actually I lied, the Saints most pressing need is to sign Drew Brees to a long term contract before the pre-season starts. The Saints also need to draft a quarterback in the late rounds to develop behind Drew as I'm not sure if Chase Daniel is the quarterback of the future. The Saints could go after Kellen Moore of Boise State or Case Keenum from Houston. They are both quarterbacks that would fit Sean Payton's system being smaller, agile, accurate, decision makers. They also could potential draft Brock Osweiler from Arizona State to backup up Drew Brees. Osweiler is a behemoth of a man at 6'7'' but is also pretty good as a runner, running a 4.7 40 yard dash.
And a position of need that may not be quite as much in need now is linebacker. With the signings of Chris Chamberlain and Curtis Lofton the linebacking corps is looking strong next year, pending bounty suspensions. The Saints could look to solidify their linebacking corps with TCU prospect Tank Carder. He can play inside and outside and had an amazing combine running a 4.56 40 yard dash. He also had a broad jump of 10.1 feet and a vertical jump of 34.5 inches.
What really strikes me is that a guy with the talent of Vontaze Burfict could fall to the Saints in the 3rd round. His draft stock has fallen very low because of a lack luster junior year and some attitude problems. He also had a terrible combine running the slowest time out of all linebackers. Nonetheless Vontaze has the potential of being an amazing linebacker, and if you get him in the 3rd or 4th round I say the risk is worth it.
If the Saints can get Drew Brees signed to a contract soon I think they will be able to overcome the bounty penalty and win the NFC South again. Their toughest competition will come from a bit of a dark horse team in the Carolina Panthers. I could see the Saints winning 11-13 games and being in contention for a home Super Bowl if they adopt an "us versus the world" mentality and make this an advantage.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
State of The Redskins
For the second of my state of the franchise articles I will be looking at the future of the Washington Redskins.
Obviously they wield the number 2 overall pick which they are expected to use on Robert Griffin III. Their most pressing need (other than Quarterback) is Inside Linebacker. They need to find someone to play opposite of London Fletcher. What I would really like to see the Redskins do is trade back into the first round and draft Dont'a Hightower. I realize the chances of that happening are not very good but if it happened the Redskins would have arguably the best inside linebacker tandem in the NFL. If they try to trade into the 2nd round or wait until their 3rd round pick then they could look at Bobby Wagner or Lavonte David, both of which could potentially fall that far. I think Wagner is a 1st round talent but since he is from a smaller school (Utah State) and missed the combine with Pneumonia he could slip into the 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th round.
The next most pressing need they have is either strong safety or wide receiver. Now, I have looked through the draft and aside from early round picks like Mark Barron I do not see that many good safeties. However, this class is deep at wide receiver. They could look at a guy like Junior Hemmingway in the 4th or 5th round. Other potential sleepers at receiver would be Devon Wylie or Reuben Randle of LSU.
If it wasn't for my belief that Mike Shanahan could turn anybody into a 1,000 yard rusher I would say they should go for a speed back like LaMichael James or Chris Rainey. Either one of those guys would add an explosive playmaker to the offense in the same vein as Darren Sproles. After last year I think they should definitively add a speed receiver/ slot receiver because of the versatility it will allow. Both LaMichael and Rainey will be excellent special teams players as well.
I know a lot of people seem to think that the Redskins need help on the offensive line. A lot of analysts say that their weakness was on the right side of the line and because of the loss of Jamaal Brown. They had an undrafted rookie free agent playing Right Tackle last year. Trust me, as a Saints fan I know how good Jamaal Brown is. They should add offensive lineman through free agency and sign a few veteran backups.
As far as their outlook for next year, 9-7 at worst. I say the Redskins at least get a wild card berth next year. If the Giants start out slow like I think they will I could see the Redskins winning the division with RG3 under center.
Obviously they wield the number 2 overall pick which they are expected to use on Robert Griffin III. Their most pressing need (other than Quarterback) is Inside Linebacker. They need to find someone to play opposite of London Fletcher. What I would really like to see the Redskins do is trade back into the first round and draft Dont'a Hightower. I realize the chances of that happening are not very good but if it happened the Redskins would have arguably the best inside linebacker tandem in the NFL. If they try to trade into the 2nd round or wait until their 3rd round pick then they could look at Bobby Wagner or Lavonte David, both of which could potentially fall that far. I think Wagner is a 1st round talent but since he is from a smaller school (Utah State) and missed the combine with Pneumonia he could slip into the 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th round.
The next most pressing need they have is either strong safety or wide receiver. Now, I have looked through the draft and aside from early round picks like Mark Barron I do not see that many good safeties. However, this class is deep at wide receiver. They could look at a guy like Junior Hemmingway in the 4th or 5th round. Other potential sleepers at receiver would be Devon Wylie or Reuben Randle of LSU.
If it wasn't for my belief that Mike Shanahan could turn anybody into a 1,000 yard rusher I would say they should go for a speed back like LaMichael James or Chris Rainey. Either one of those guys would add an explosive playmaker to the offense in the same vein as Darren Sproles. After last year I think they should definitively add a speed receiver/ slot receiver because of the versatility it will allow. Both LaMichael and Rainey will be excellent special teams players as well.
I know a lot of people seem to think that the Redskins need help on the offensive line. A lot of analysts say that their weakness was on the right side of the line and because of the loss of Jamaal Brown. They had an undrafted rookie free agent playing Right Tackle last year. Trust me, as a Saints fan I know how good Jamaal Brown is. They should add offensive lineman through free agency and sign a few veteran backups.
As far as their outlook for next year, 9-7 at worst. I say the Redskins at least get a wild card berth next year. If the Giants start out slow like I think they will I could see the Redskins winning the division with RG3 under center.
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