A pretty insane QB stat

[LinvilleGorge]

16 minutes ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

I actually think Cam Newton is directly to blame for the crazy short leash these QBs are given now.  He was so good so early in his career that he reset the standard for young QB play.  Before he showed up it wasn't uncommon for the learning curve to be a full two or three seasons.  The high draft pick guys that had short careers prior to him typically had injuries or off field issues.

Which highly drafted QBs have actually experienced having a short leash? Most of these guys get multiple years of starting to show what they have.

[frankw]

Well it's not exactly new information that you don't have to draft a QB in the top 5 to compete for a championship. But the poorly run organizations end up with the first three picks. Most of the QB's drafted there never stand a chance. And then you have teams like the Panthers led by the Tepper's that would rather make a big splash to serve their own egos and get talked about in the media for several weeks by trading all the way up than actually being intelligent and strategic and staying put. Worst outcome in that is if you miss you can try again without mortaging your future.

But there is another layer in all this. The league is changing again. Even a guy like Darnold with all his physical tools every box checked in that area did very little in the Super Bowl. Seattle had a stout roster all around. Same thing with the Eagles when they blew out the Chiefs.

Yet here we are stuck with the tiniest QB in the league.

[DeAngelo Beason]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Which highly drafted QBs have actually experienced having a short leash? Most of these guys get multiple years of starting to show what they have.

All QBs drafted in the first round from 2009 to 2016 were released from the team that drafted them.  I'm not going through the list for you.  There are two of them that we should all be extremely familiar with in Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold, however. "Short leash" has a double meaning here.  One, not enough time, and/or two, unrealistic expectations of just how much they should be carrying the team. Baker had 4 years in Cleveland, for example, but three of those were very solid seasons.  For whatever reason, the fact that he wasn't a world beater meant he should be discarded.  

Edited 27 minutes ago by DeAngelo Beason

[LinvilleGorge]

5 minutes ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

All QBs drafted in the first round from 2009 to 2016 were released from the team that drafted them.  I'm not going through the list for you.  There are two of them that we should all be extremely familiar with in Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold, however. "Short leash" has a double meaning here.  One, not enough time, and/or two, unrealistic expectations of just how much they should be carrying the team. Baker had 4 years in Cleveland, for example, but three of those were very solid seasons.  For whatever reason, the fact that he wasn't a world beater meant he should be discarded.  

I'm just saying almost everyone drafted in the top 5 of the draft is going to get multiple years as a starter before the team that drafted them cuts bait. Now whether or not you think they got a fair shake at it or not is a different conversation, but if you get multiple years starting I don't consider that a "short leash". Simply being a high pick almost always buys you a significant leash.