analysis of RG3 as a pick - BUST

see how that works…. now I know what Kravitz handle on this blog is.

that was the best part of your post

African-American athletes have long been accepted in “good ole Indiana.” Have you ever heard of Mel Daniels, George McGinnis, Reggie Miller, Dale and Antonio Davis, Edgerrin James, Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, Dwight Freeney, Robert Mathis, Calbert Cheaney, Glenn Robinson, Alan Henderson, etc.etc.etc.?

I think “He will not be accepted in good ole Indiana” should read “He will not be accepted by bigr2.”

and lived there until I was 14. I lived in Wayne Township, whch was, predominantly a white neighborhood. The school I went to however, had no shortage of black kid. They got on a bus and went to our school. This really helped in all of our development as peple, as we weren’t ignorant, like farm kids or something. White kids made black friends and vice versa. We played sports together. We were above the stereotypes. There were smart black kids and dumb white kids. Athletic white kids and nerdy black kids.

In short, it’s that experience that makes me look back on my time in Indiana fondly, and consider it on the short list of places I’d like to move my family in the future.

ctnyc left some names out. Clark Kellogg, Chuck Person, Joby Wright, Eric Dickerson, Jon Hand… these were all endeared athletes during their time in Indiana.

Bigr2, the world done moved on and left you behind. People like you were relics in the 1980s. Now, it’s just sad. You’re probably too arrogant to be ashamed, but you should at least have the good graces to be quiet.

His play-making ability excites me. I love how a receiver likes to lay the boom stick on defenders like Garcon. Sometimes after he catches the ball this young man has anger and wants to run people over. I like how he caught a pass over the middle and Ray Lewis laid him out and Garcon got up and was chippy with crazy Ray. Then there are the simply amazing one handed catches most men can dream about. Then there is the dropped passes that hit him right between the numbers and you are like really? But Garcon>Collie and at this point Garcon was-is since he is a FA Garcon>than any other Colts receiver right now.

“RG3 is going to be a complete bust for whatever team takes him.”
Subjective opinion.

“As far as “mobile” QB’’s go, he is toward the bottom of the pack in terms of skills.""
Decidedly false. He is the best passer of any “mobile” QB prospect since at least Steve McNair.

“*He is not that fast (he used to be olympic sprinter, but only expected to run 4.4 to 4.5 because of knee injury)”

Even if this were true – and it isn’t – this would still be much faster than Cam Newton, Vince Young, Randall Cunningham, Donovan McNabb and Steve Young. RG3 won’t be much of a runner in the NFL because he is a straight-line runner with a lack of change of direction or elusiveness, not a lack of speed. If RG3 can get a seam up the middle with good blocking downfield, he is gone, untouched.

“*His decision making is very very poor (I believe he will have a very very very very low wunderlic score).”

It is Wonderlic. And that is all that I have to say about that.

“*He has already had a serious knee injury”

Which would be relevant if he were a CB or WR. With a QB, not so much.

“*He is too small to be a mobile QB”
Even if he were a mobile QB – and he isn’t – RG3 is a whopping 1 inch shorter than John Elway and Tim Tebow, the same height as Steve Young, Donovan McNabb, and Steve McNair, an inch taller than Kordell Stewart, 3 inches taller than Michael Vick and Rich Gannon, and 6 inches taller than Doug Flutie. Oh yeah, and he is 220 lbs. He’ll add 10 lbs. in about 1 season just by virtue of giving up track and moving to an NFL strength and conditioning program.

“*Mobile Qb’s have not won a SB in a long, long time. Traditional pocket passers, with some ability to move around in the pocket (such as luck) are the Qbs having success in the league. Mobile, inaccurate Qb’s with poor decision making are not having success.”

I will assume that you have never actually seen Griffin III play, and assume that he is akin to Vince Young and Michael Vick. P.S. Donovan McNabb wins a Super Bowl had EITHER Chad Lewis played OR Terrell Owens been 100%. Or had Andy Reid drafted Plaxico Burress instead of Corey Simon. Or drafted Reggie Wayne (or Chad Johnson or Todd Heap or Alge Crumpler or Chris Chambers or Steve Smith) instead of Freddie Mitchell.

“*He does not have leadeship abilities.”

Yeah. Right … sure

“*He will not be accepted in good ole Indiana.”

So … Texas – where Warren Moon played ALMOST THIRTY YEARS AGO – is more progressive than Indiana? Yeah, right sure … allow me to say that if Indiana embraced Tony Rice (who won a national title at Notre Dame) they’ll embrace RG3 so long as he wins.