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Combine Drills: Quarterback Day

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10 hours ago, SameDamnThing said:

it confuses me how people are so high on Richardson now when we knew he was going to do this. 

Why do people keep saying this as if Richardson wasn't hyped and talked about before the combine?

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10 hours ago, SameDamnThing said:

it confuses me how people are so high on Richardson now when we knew he was going to do this. in fact, his ability to run and throw as well as he does in pajamas makes me wonder why he wasn't more productive during his college career. in a weird way, his testing in throwing has made me even more concerned because if he has that kind of arm then why were his passing stats so pedestrian? there's something wrong with this situation. you can talk scheme, bad players around him, bad coaching, etc. but Cam went to Blinn CC and won a championship then did the same at Auburn. Lamar Jackson had one of the best dual threat seasons in NCAA history. if Richardson is a mix of those two, why does that mix play like crap? 

The experts were smart enough to sniff out Malik Willis last year when his combine had him at the top of everyone's board. people have to wake up on this kid, because he doesn't have the tangible results to match his immense skill. 

If Malik Willis was 6'4" 240, started only 13 games in the SEC, his hype train would've been higher. An undersized QB from Liberty hits different than a physical specimen with limited tape at Florida.

I think people knew AR would own the combine's metrics, but not at the level that he ended up producing. He also crushed interview and in-person meetings....this was probably not as expected.

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The Athletic had a really nice write up of the combine. Here is the snippet on Stroud (who I want us to trade up to #1 and take):

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C.J. Stroud isn’t the physical specimen of Anthony Richardson or Will Levis, but he still wowed folks in Indy. The 21-year-old from Ohio State threw for more than 8,000 yards in two seasons with an 85-to-12 TD-to-INT ratio, he torched the Georgia defense in his final college game, and he was razor sharp in his throwing session Saturday. Every throw looked smooth, effortless and natural. His deep ball was even more impressive than some NFL personnel folks expected.

“It’s the consistency he has with his arm, not only the accuracy but knowing when to throw what type of ball,” said the NFL QB coach. “C.J. is excellent at choosing the right club per se.”

This is a guy rival coaches have been raving about the past two years: “He’s the most accurate quarterback I’ve ever played against,” said one longtime college defensive coordinator who has faced a bunch of future top-10 draft picks. “It’s like he couldn’t have handed the ball to his receivers any better, and they’re 30, 40 yards downfield. He’s got high-level NFL accuracy and NFL vision. I think he understands the game so well and gets it out in under three seconds. He has a very high football IQ and really understands what you’re trying to do to him.”

Stroud didn’t just shine on the field but off it as well in his interviews, and even in between them. A quick story: Early in the week in Indy, Stroud was amid other prospects in the speed dating circuit of formal interviews, being escorted from one suite to another inside Lucas Oil Stadium to meet with front office folks, coaches and scouts. Then he spotted a familiar face, an NFL team staffer he recognized from a recruiting trip he took to a school he didn’t attend.

Even though the guy wasn’t one of the coaches who actually had been a point person in his recruitment, Stroud not only remembered him, he also remembered his now 12-year-old son who he’d met on a recruiting trip four years ago. He even asked to FaceTime with the kid right then and there and proceeded to laugh it up with his little buddy like he was the kid’s uncle. So much for combine jitters.”

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