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Schefter on No.1 Pick

MattB

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Agreed. Gabbert will go #1 Overall. I heard he did very well on the wonderlic, and he absolutely blew teams away with his individual team interviews at the combine. His stock went way up at the combine, and it will go up even more when he throw's at his pro day. He has a better arm than Cam Newton.. that's a fact. His arm is second to Ryan Mallett.

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The favorite chorus of national NFL reporters: "What happened last year will happen again this year" :rolleyes:

I swear some of these guys have no imagination at all.

Not sure what you're on about. The recent trend in the draft has been QB's going high and being very successful.

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Agreed. Gabbert will go #1 Overall. I heard he did very well on the wonderlic, and he absolutely blew teams away with his individual team interviews at the combine. His stock went way up at the combine, and it will go up even more when he throw's at his pro day. He has a better arm than Cam Newton.. that's a fact. His arm is second to Ryan Mallett.

Where did you hear these things, Lout?

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Keep in mind that "insiders" like Schefter are usually totally wrong about this kind of thing...

Like last year when he said Bradford would be the first pick in february?

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/02/25/schefter-theres-no-way-the-rams-wont-pick-sam-bradford-at-no-1/

Said Schefter: “I would like to record something here, on February 24th. Two months from the draft. And tell you who the number one pick is gonna be right now. On the basis of what I’ve talked to people around the league [about], everything I’ve heard. And at some point it’s gonna shift to this guy, and I don’t know whether it’ll be now or late March. It’ll probably be after his Pro Day, when he goes through his Pro Day and goes through his workout. Then all of a sudden — it’ll be about a month from now — we’ll start hearing, ‘Wow. Would and could the Rams take with the number one overall pick Sam Bradford?’
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