June Jones jumps on the Mac Jones train

[kungfoodude]

Just now, OldhamA said:

Mac Jones was backed up by a 5 star QB who he didn't give a sniff to all year. 

And he was a backup to Tua and Jalen Hurts(although he was technically a redshirt).

[OldhamA]

5 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

And he was a backup to Tua and Jalen Hurts(although he was technically a redshirt).

As of 9pm on Saturday 13 March the starting QBs for the Miami Dolphins and the Philadelphia Eagles, respectively. 

Edited March 13, 2021 by OldhamA

[WOW!!]

My problem is after years of seeing what the difference is in having a QB with elite skills and QB without.. How can some people here want to go back to the latter??

Love Jake to death but every year had to be dam near perfect to make the playoffs.. Great running game, great WR'S , good Oline... And still we were the Cardiac Cats..

While Cam with a little of help could blow teams out the water and take sub par talent to a super bowl..

[kungfoodude]

2 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

As of 9pm on Saturday 13 March the starting QBs for the Miami Dolphins and the Philadelphia Eagles, respectively. 

Not what I would call high caliber starters, at the moment. TBD if that will remain the case.

[WOW!!]

1 minute ago, OldhamA said:

As of 9pm on Saturday 13 March the starting QBs for the Miami Dolphins and the Philadelphia Eagles, respectively. 

With big questions marks around both..

Guess who ain't got question The Chargers and other teams that went for natural talent not intangibles..

[Waldo]

I keep thinking of Mac Jones like

[SizzleBuzz]

Mac Jones moving up fast on the inside lane....

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

I'll be pissed if we take him at #8 low ceiling he screams Matt Leinart to me when I watch him.

[panthers55]

On 3/12/2021 at 5:25 PM, kungfoodude said:

That's kind of you just picking a guy, though. Scouts and evaluators don't always agree with what they like in a prospect.

Simms is a very educated opinion on the matter but there are other educated opinions that don't consider him the level of prospect that Simms does.

The issue with Jones isn't that he is a "bad" prospect, he just doesn't have enough elite attributes to be able to easily succeed unless his processing is elite(which some including Simms say it is) and he is in a system that works well for what he can do. Something suited for a guy like Chad Pennington and not Pat Mahomes or Deshaun Watson.

People look at Jones and forget he only started this past season. Why is his current performance indicative of his potential? Can  a guy get more athletic with training? Can they get stronger or even faster. (Within reason of course). He may never be considered athletic but those who think what you see is all you get are way underselling his potential 

[Catsfan69]

5 minutes ago, panthers55 said:

People look at Jones and forget he only started this past season. Why is his current performance indicative of his potential? Can  a guy get more athletic with training? Can they get stronger or even faster. (Within reason of course). He may never be considered athletic but those who think what you see is all you get are way underselling his potential 

He has no potential. 

[panthers55]

On 3/12/2021 at 1:44 PM, ncfan said:

On no Planet is he “on target than anyone else out there.”

 

I’ll take Daniel Jeremiah all day over him.  And even then I’ll take a few others certain times.

 

I can’t help you if you believe that take on Lance.  Honestly, if Simms came out tomorrow and said Will Grier was better than any QB in this class, you’d probably slurp that right up.

If he had said Grier was good then his credibility might be tarnished but he didn't. Which is why I listen to him. He is one of the few that is right a lot more than he is wrong. I didn't say Lance is a bust simply he is the biggest gamble among the top 5 or 6 QBs. Which is what drops him to the second round. 

[kungfoodude]

4 minutes ago, panthers55 said:

People look at Jones and forget he only started this past season. Why is his current performance indicative of his potential? Can  a guy get more athletic with training? Can they get stronger or even faster. (Within reason of course). He may never be considered athletic but those who think what you see is all you get are way underselling his potential 

Eh......yes he is just a one year guy but I don't know that I would peg him as a prospect I would expect to have much in terms of ceiling. Reasonably high floor(probably solid journeyman backup QB level) to fairly low ceiling(Chad Pennington, Case Keenum ish) starter in the NFL. 

Could he be Brees? Eh.....maybe, but that seems like taking a pretty big gamble on him being the outlier. 

I think that is the thing that makes him a polarizing prospect. Some see that he seems to have a grasp for some of the more nuanced aspects of the position and then the rest will see the very obvious physical/skill limitations. 

[panthers55]

22 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Eh......yes he is just a one year guy but I don't know that I would peg him as a prospect I would expect to have much in terms of ceiling. Reasonably high floor(probably solid journeyman backup QB level) to fairly low ceiling(Chad Pennington, Case Keenum ish) starter in the NFL. 

Could he be Brees? Eh.....maybe, but that seems like taking a pretty big gamble on him being the outlier. 

I think that is the thing that makes him a polarizing prospect. Some see that he seems to have a grasp for some of the more nuanced aspects of the position and then the rest will see the very obvious physical/skill limitations. 

He isn't polarizing like Lance or some other prospect. He is a proven winner who did everything asked of him. I don't think he has many physical limitations given that athleticism is down the list of necessary attributes for a QB.  There are many guys who have been successful who weren't physical specimens. Plus I think that Jones is likely working in these issues as we speak. And these supposed issues are not as great as some would suggest. For example he throws a good consistent deep ball and can make all the throws.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si.com/college/alabama/.amp/bamacentral/deep-ball-specialist-mac-jones-perfecting-art-of-the-long-touchdown-blackwell

[WOW!!]

3 hours ago, panthers55 said:

He isn't polarizing like Lance or some other prospect. He is a proven winner who did everything asked of him. I don't think he has many physical limitations given that athleticism is down the list of necessary attributes for a QB.  There are many guys who have been successful who weren't physical specimens. Plus I think that Jones is likely working in these issues as we speak. And these supposed issues are not as great as some would suggest. For example he throws a good consistent deep ball and can make all the throws.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si.com/college/alabama/.amp/bamacentral/deep-ball-specialist-mac-jones-perfecting-art-of-the-long-touchdown-blackwell

Athleticism is down on your list of QB attributes... Not most of the people watching football the last 10 years...