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    QBs drafted in 2007

    Jamarcus Russel is being brought in for a tryout in Chicago (please, please please let this happen! I've been good...) and I saw a comment that despite being a massive bust, he is probably the best QB out of the 2007 class!

    I couldn't believe it, so went looking. Here are the QBs from that draft:
    JaMarcus
    Brady Quinn
    Kevin Kolb
    John Beck
    Drew Stanton
    Trent Edwards
    Jeff Rowe
    Troy Smith
    Jordan Palmer
    Tyler Thigpen

    So...JaMarcus has the most starts from that group, but I'll chalk that up to draft status. That makes Kevin Kolb or Trent Edwards is the pick of that litter I guess? Not a good year to be looking for a quarterback!
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    Scary to think that Kolb is hands-down the best from that group. If his brains weren't always scrambled, he might not be that bad of a player, really.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Guiness View Post
      Jamarcus Russel is being brought in for a tryout in Chicago (please, please please let this happen! I've been good...) and I saw a comment that despite being a massive bust, he is probably the best QB out of the 2007 class!

      I couldn't believe it, so went looking. Here are the QBs from that draft:
      JaMarcus
      Brady Quinn
      Kevin Kolb
      John Beck
      Drew Stanton
      Trent Edwards
      Jeff Rowe
      Troy Smith
      Jordan Palmer
      Tyler Thigpen

      So...JaMarcus has the most starts from that group, but I'll chalk that up to draft status. That makes Kevin Kolb or Trent Edwards is the pick of that litter I guess? Not a good year to be looking for a quarterback!
      Not exactly the class of 1983 is it? Weird to think that nobody from the same QB class made it long-term. You'd think one player in a group that big would.
      "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." -Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Guiness View Post
        Jamarcus Russel is being brought in for a tryout in Chicago (please, please please let this happen! I've been good...) and I saw a comment that despite being a massive bust, he is probably the best QB out of the 2007 class!

        I couldn't believe it, so went looking. Here are the QBs from that draft:
        JaMarcus
        Brady Quinn
        Kevin Kolb
        John Beck
        Drew Stanton
        Trent Edwards
        Jeff Rowe
        Troy Smith
        Jordan Palmer
        Tyler Thigpen

        So...JaMarcus has the most starts from that group, but I'll chalk that up to draft status. That makes Kevin Kolb or Trent Edwards is the pick of that litter I guess? Not a good year to be looking for a quarterback!

        Brady Quinn's name always triggers a memory of that draft - one of the few times I was right and TT was wrong. It was obvious Cleveland was nearly desperate to trade up to get Quinn, and apparently offered GB their first rounder (was it 23? Not sure), their second, plus their next year's first. I wanted so badly for TT to take that trade. Get an extra second and set yourself up like Belichek does in NE with two firsts the following year - one probably pretty high up in the first.

        But no. TT took some guy named Justin Harrell.
        "The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."

        KYPack

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Fritz View Post
          Brady Quinn's name always triggers a memory of that draft - one of the few times I was right and TT was wrong. It was obvious Cleveland was nearly desperate to trade up to get Quinn, and apparently offered GB their first rounder (was it 23? Not sure), their second, plus their next year's first. I wanted so badly for TT to take that trade. Get an extra second and set yourself up like Belichek does in NE with two firsts the following year - one probably pretty high up in the first.

          But no. TT took some guy named Justin Harrell.
          I don't know how you could turn down a first rounder from a perenial loser like Cleveland!!! You have to know it's going to be a top 10 pick, minimum.

          Actually, I can think of one reason...before this latest CBA, I would rather NOT of had a top 10 choice? Fraught with disaster, that is.
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          • #6
            2006 didn't turn out so good either:

            1 3 Vince Young
            1 10 Matt Leinart
            1 11 Jay Cutler
            2 49 Kellen Clemens
            2 64 Tarvaris Jackson
            3 81 Charlie Whitehurst
            3 85 Brodie Croyle QB
            5 148 Ingle Martin QB
            5 164 Omar Jacobs QB
            6 194 Bruce Gradkowski
            7 223 D.J. Shockley


            Cutler and not much else.

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            • #7
              Remember when there were calls for TT to draft Quinn over fear Rodgers wouldn't turn out?
              Go PACK

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Patler View Post
                2006 didn't turn out so good either:

                1 3 Vince Young
                1 10 Matt Leinart
                1 11 Jay Cutler
                2 49 Kellen Clemens
                2 64 Tarvaris Jackson
                3 81 Charlie Whitehurst
                3 85 Brodie Croyle QB
                5 148 Ingle Martin QB
                5 164 Omar Jacobs QB
                6 194 Bruce Gradkowski
                7 223 D.J. Shockley


                Cutler and not much else.
                At least 1!

                No one else on the list had lasting success, but at VY did make a Pro Bowl, Gradkowski and Jackson were starters. Poor class, but certainly better than '07.

                Leinart is interesting, obviously never lived up to his promise, but so far has stuck around, he was with Oakland last year. Is he a decent clipboard holder? He is unsigned so far this year.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Guiness View Post
                  At least 1!

                  No one else on the list had lasting success, but at VY did make a Pro Bowl, Gradkowski and Jackson were starters. Poor class, but certainly better than '07.

                  Leinart is interesting, obviously never lived up to his promise, but so far has stuck around, he was with Oakland last year. Is he a decent clipboard holder? He is unsigned so far this year.
                  I wonder if some of these guys get so used to the clipboard job that they kinda hope they never have to go into the game. Easy paycheck, y'know?
                  "The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."

                  KYPack

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Fritz View Post
                    I wonder if some of these guys get so used to the clipboard job that they kinda hope they never have to go into the game. Easy paycheck, y'know?
                    It used to be guys could make a long career out of it, when most teams carried 3 QBs. I haven't looked, but it seems to me that carrying just 2 into the season is commonplace now, so there is no emergency QB that can be a game day inactive but can be pressed into duty. Given that, I think this line from Leinart's wiki dooms him: " Leinart has suffered three season-ending injuries (2006, 2007, 2011) within his last 8 starts". That seems to happen a lot though, we've seen it twice in GB, with both Pederson and Rodgers going down for teh season after stepping in for Favre.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Guiness View Post
                      It used to be guys could make a long career out of it, when most teams carried 3 QBs. I haven't looked, but it seems to me that carrying just 2 into the season is commonplace now, so there is no emergency QB that can be a game day inactive but can be pressed into duty. Given that, I think this line from Leinart's wiki dooms him: " Leinart has suffered three season-ending injuries (2006, 2007, 2011) within his last 8 starts". That seems to happen a lot though, we've seen it twice in GB, with both Pederson and Rodgers going down for teh season after stepping in for Favre.
                      If I remember the stat correctly, there were six games that Favre couldn't finish due to injury. In three of them, his backup succumbed to a season ending injury. The first one must've been years before Pederson.
                      No longer the member of any fan clubs. I'm tired of jinxing players out of the league and into obscurity.

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