despite the difficulty in finding a spot over his career, Sims was (besides Tua) arguably the best deep-ball thrower of the Saban era.
I think he had many of the necessary physical tools to be successful at the next level but didn't cut the mustard on the theoretical and game-plan side. He needed to improve his intermediate accuracy but he had a crazy fast release, great velocity, good footwork, good escapability and awareness.
I agree with you. Then again, I believe Coker is the only QB in D1 history to win a national championship AND go undefeated as a starter for his entire career (assuming some minimum number of starts). That's pretty special.
Browns, Jets, Broncos, and Cards in that order.
Maybe. He definitely improved and started playing his best toward the end of the year.
Maybe. But It’s hard to say. Coker would have a hard time in 2014 with a very young defense and some gun slingers to keep pace with. I think many just don’t realize how great Blake Sims played that year.
I question the coaching Coker got at Fla St under Jimbo. When it was first announced Coker would be coming to Bama I thought we were getting a lot more polished quarterback than what showed up on campus. But as we all saw, he wasn't ready to play. The following year when he got his chance he continued to get better and better as the year went on. I wonder if he would have had the coaching he got at Bama for more than two years, would he have developed to a point where he would have had a real shot at being an NFL quarterback? Because the physical tools were there.
i heard that over the weekend somewhere as well.
No, in the perspective of life if the worst that happens to him is signing with the Browns and being paid literally millions on top of millions to lose. Hey, sign me up.
Well they already have Garrett from last year, right?
Barkley would be good for AJ but drafting a RB #1 is just dumb IMO. They should try and trade back if they aren't taking a QB IMO.
I think they’d knew that they wanted Winston and trickett to start. So I don’t think Coker was a priority for them.
Right, but normally the #1 pick as a QB or a player that can impact the QB like a pass rushing defensive end. Can never have enough of those. If there's was an elite edge player that's who the Browns should take #1. Since there isn't the #1 pick is basically a crapshoot..
The problem is they have the #1 pick and there really isn't a traditional top pick type of player outside of the QBs - elite left tackle or edge defender - so this is one of the few years where taking the best player available might make sense. I guess it would depend on what they could get for trading back but they traded back a ton last year and don't have much to show for it. There's really no player that's worth the #1 pick unless it's a potential franchise QB so unless they're taking a QB #1 there's really no harm in taking the best player available. I'd be surprised if they took Barkley #1 though because they have the GM from the Chiefs and he found Kareem Hunt in the 3rd or 4th round so I don't think there's any way he take a RB #1. Just saying what I would do to give them the best chance to win in the near future..
Mike Mayock made the point yesterday they already have too many picks. They already have 12 picks this year (5 of which are in the first two rounds).
That's pretty much the point I was trying to make but didn't have the numbers handy to fill in the blanks. At some point they have to start using those picks. Yes, taking a RB #1 isn't typically the best coarse of action but considering how many picks they have and the players to select from it isn't the worse thing they could do..
