Originally Posted by
conscript
Hey man Anderson did have that one pretty decent season in Cleveland. Sure it was three years earlier and the previous two seasons in Cleveland he was fucking horrendous, but the potential might have maybe possibly been there for him not to suck. Its not like Lineart has even shown a glimmer of being a potential starting QB either while he was in Arizona or since he left. I mean hell this is a guy who has played in 32 career games and has 15 TDs to show for it on 609 attempts. That is 1TD every 40 attempts which is awful. Of the QBs to start two or more games this season, the only ones who have put up a worse Td per completion rate are Ryan Lindley at infinity (0TD 120 attempts) John Skelton at 100.5 (2 TD, 201 attempts), Ryan Tannehill at 49.5(8TD 396 attempts) and Nick Foles at 46. Matt Leinart looked like a semi-competent QB for less than one full season, his rookie season in 2006 where he only had 6 games where he threw for more TDs than INTs. Since that year he has never once looked like even a semi-competent QB on any team as a backup or a starter.
Was it dumb to keep only a roster of Anderson, Max Hill, and Skelton? In hindsight, sure. But in Anderson you had a QB who had at one point just a few years earlier looked like a competent NFL starter you could rely on. In the two seasons prior to Arizona acquiring him he had been significantly less stellar, but still. In Leinart you had a known quantity and that known quantity was terrible. There is no reason at all to stick with a guy who has never once in his career looked like such a solid starter you weren't willing to replace him after his best career performances for an aging veteran QB. With Anderson the potential was there. It wasn't for Leinart which is why they let him go.
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1) Geno Smith, WVU
2) Matt Barkley, USC
3-10) Tyler Wilson, Arkansas, Landry Jones, Oklahoma, Ryan Nassib, Syracuse, Tyler Bray, Tennessee, Zach Dysert, Miami OH, EJ Manuel, Florida St. Tajh Boyd, Clemson, Mike Glennon, NC State
Those are the "top 10" guys expected to or who are known to be entering the draft. Andy Murray is probably a solid #3 or #4 if he is coming out. The main difference is that last draft there were three absolutely no miss prospects in Andrew Luck, RG3, and Russell Wilson who was literally downgraded only because of his height (Football Outsiders had him as their highest career forecast QB EVER). There isn't a single one of those types in this draft or a guy even approaching them.