dave mcbride

AZ isn't mentioned either, and they are a prime candidate that checks all of the boxes. https://cardswire.usatoday.com/2018/02/06/carson-palmer-now-officially-retired-cardinals-have-more-cap-space/

Who is this "most" that you refer to? Can you provide a link? More importantly, football is a team sport. Brees' team was 21-27 from 2014-2016, and he was an amazing player every one of those years. Same goes for Philip Rivers, one of the best QBs in the league this century. He has unfortunately been plagued with playing for a team that has been completely snakebitten by injuries over the past half decade, and which has been relatively poorly run to boot. It is the ultimate team game, and QB w-l records are even more meaningless than pitchers' w-l records. You really think Wentz, as good as we was, goes 11-2 without a top-5 DVOA defense? What about Arizona? They are a bona fide good team (#4 in defensive DVOA last season) that just needs a qb.

I don't think they'll take him, but my guess is that he is the sort of qb Daboll can work with.

Re: calling him elite: YPA, completion pct, td/int ratio, overall rating ... you know, the stats that actually matter the most. In 2015, Cousins had better numbers than Brees in these key categories (as well as qbr). He is a bona fide good player whose numbers slid a little this year partly because of a much worse receiving corps and a bad running game. Context matters. That's obviously a bit extreme, but i think it stems partly from the context-free analysis of Cousins' time in Washington that is so pervasive here. He is a good qb who will make a team like the jets, denver, or arizona a LOT better.

Darnold for me, and it's not really close. But I honestly think he's out of the picture because I think he goes #1 overall to Cleveland. I'd be fine with either Mayfield or Rosen, however.

Because they focused too much on his final-season stats at Pitt rather than focusing on projecting him to the NFL. I feel similarly about Darnold, who I think is the best QB talent in this draft. People need to remember that Darnold is 20 years old. He will get better. He has all of the talent in the world too.

His numbers are very comparable to Brees' elite numbers when the latter played for a bunch of 7-9 teams. Brees made a 3-13 team a 7-9 team with his elite play. Washington has been a bad team outside of their passing game, and the stats show it pretty clearly.

For all of the many Cousins critics here, I suggest looking at Washington's overall stats the past three years. If you do, it becomes abundantly clear that this is basically a 3-13 team that gets to .500 because of elite QB play. The defense is consistently awful in the main categories, and the run game has been execrable. He is a really good player whose passing numbers compare to Drew Brees. Cousins will make a team like the Jets, which has elite defensive talent, a LOT better. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/was/2017.htm https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/was/2016.htm https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/was/2015.htm

Great work. However, have you seen this? http://www.espn.com/blog/new-york-jets/post/_/id/74496/jets-poised-to-reboot-at-qb-with-kirk-cousins-their-focal-point I don’t know what will happen, but the Jets have the space to do it.

He was great in his first camp. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/24/sports/pro-football-after-4-straight-pops-bills-start-blowing-up-that-balloon-again.html?pagewanted=all ' On offense, quarterback Jim Kelly, at age 34 the oldest Bill, experienced tendinitis in his throwing shoulder during the off season but said he feels strong now. Kelly was not scheduled to throw during morning workouts Friday on the first day of field practice, but there he was tossing spirals anyway. Kelly said that if the shoulder feels as good during the season as it does now, he'll be fine. The rookie receiver Bucky Brooks looks sharp and exciting. He is outrunning defensive backs and -- sometimes even the football -- with ease.' Also: 'Quarterback Jim Kelly felt Brooks was never quite the same player he was before the injury. "It didn't seem like he picked up where he left off last year," Kelly said. "Bucky worked very hard. I think what hindered him more was his knee brace. I don't know any receiver in the National Football League that wears a knee brace. He definitely has the ability to do it, but I think his concentration level went down a little bit and he lost a lot of confidence. Bucky's a good friend. I just wish him the best."' http://buffalonews.com/1995/08/23/the-buck-stops-here-as-bills-release-brooks/

He never had the 40 time again that he had coming out of college. He DEFINITELY lost a step after the injury. I remember it well from the time.

Brooks was lights-out good as a receiver in his first training camp. Kelly went on and on at the time about how much better the offense was going to be because of his talent. He was no bust at all; he just happened to have a really bad acl tear at a point in time when the surgery wasn't as good as it is now. He never got his blazing speed back, and I remember it well. Players who suffer bad injuries aren't busts; they're just examples of bad luck.

I will be utterly shocked if the Browns don't take Darnold with the #1 pick. He is clearly the best QB prospect in the draft, in my humble opinion. The tea leaves certainly point to the Browns taking him.

Fundamentally disagree. Anyone who watched Shady this year could see that he had not lost a step AT ALL. He was as explosive as ever, but he was being hammered in the backfield constantly by multiple tacklers.

there's a huge difference between 43 percent and 17 percent. Plus his best season was 2013 - 1607 yards, 5.1 ypc, and 10.4 ypr. He had 2146 total yards that year.

He was *clearly* not on the line. It wasn't close. It was very much a cut and dry case. More importantly, though, Philly won. That's what matters in the end. It's not semantics; it's math. The referee was in error. Regardless, it probably wouldn't have changed the outcome, and it helped Philly win.

It's actually not really a judgment call. It's math-related, and there's a right and wrong answer. The fact that the WR checked with an official who gave him a categorically wrong answer doesn't mean that it was OK. It should have been a penalty, and it's pretty cut and dried. That said, Philly won, which is a very good thing.

4 playoff games, and in every single one he has had a rating of over 100 (and he had a very good game against ATL after the first series). Don't forget his spot-duty performance in KC last season too; he was good. How much of it is attributable to Jeff Fisher? Also, regarding the last game of the season this year, the Eagles were in high injury prevention mode. They had clinched home field.

Weak analysis by pff. The draft is about projection of 21 year olds, not past results in a conference with no defense. Mayfield is good, but the foundationsof the analysis are really flawed. Stick to pro football, pff.

There was a huge difference between the 1991 and 1992 Skins - the difference between an utterly dominant Jim Lachey, the best LT in football at the time, and a hurt Jim Lachey. He was never the same after 1991 because of injuries. That 1991 Skins team succeeded because of its dominant line. Check out Lachey's AV in 1991. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/L/LachJi00.htm

One thing you didn't mention is his blocking, which is great. Graham is a *terrible* blocker. Blocking matters at that position. Check it out: https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/pro-rob-gronkowski-is-the-nfls-best-offensive-player-patriots

He spent it well. It's clearly his hobby, and he's good at it.

This is utterly awesome.

The Bills absolutely have the money.

He's not the fifth best of his era; he's better than all of those other guys. For one, he's a DOMINANT blocker as a TE, and far, far better than all of those guys who put up the big receiving numbers. Remember, for HOF voting, there are career stats and peak five-year run stats (baseball does this too - i.e., Sandy Koufax). He's simply better than everyone of those other guys, and I think it's flat out crazy to argue otherwise.