01-25-2018, 12:23 PM
(01-25-2018, 11:48 AM)ochocincos Wrote: Dak still had a higher completion percentage every year in college than what Allen had. Wentz too.
And Carson Wentz had better receivers at a D2 school compared to Allen, who played in the MWC? MWC should pull better players than a D2 school overall.
I get what you're saying, but Josh Allen's stats still reveal a guy who was incredibly inaccurate.
I don't think he'll go to a team that constantly gives him a clean pocket, and therefore he'll likely really struggle for at least his first couple years while he develops.
All I'm saying is the team that drafts him has to understand the risk and be willing to accept he's not NFL-ready out of the gate.
Again all I can say is watch the tape, don't read stat lines. I have watched Iowa, Oregon, and Boise State and the common denominator is the guy is throwing on the run a heck of a lot more than he will anywhere in the NFL outside of Cincinnati haha. In the Iowa game I counted less than 10 of 40 drop backs he wasn't under pressure or on the run. He had plenty of big passes dropped in college and they weren't short routes he threw too hard, they were flat drops. The guy has a great feel for evading pressure and if he can get better at squaring up his shoulders on the run he can be a dangerous weapon when he escapes the pocket as he keeps his eyes down field.
I am simply saying, the accuracy stuff is over blown. He is a year two starter to me who could find himself starting late on a bad team already out of playoff hunt. A lot comes down to can a QB coach get him to reset his feet when things break down. The comparisons to Lynch are laughable though by some analysts, he is much closer to Big Ben coming out than Lynch.
