Tier 3 QB

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(07-27-2018, 04:45 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Don't get it twisted, I like Jimmy G and defended the 49ers for giving up what they did even before Jimmy took a snap for them. That said, as much as I like him, I realize that 4-5 games have fooled a lot of people in the past. There were already reports of him struggling in mini-camp. Take that for what it's worth, but we just don't know how it will go.

Some QB's have strung together entire seasons where they looked like future legends (think RGIII, Preskott, Josh Freeman, etc), only to come crashing down. In short, I have no issue with optimism for Jimmy G...but ranking him 13th based on a small handful of games? Lets see him run that back for an entire season first.

I hear ya, it's just that the Eagles won the SB with a 2nd year QB we didn't know about, a backup QB who was a one year wonder and almost out of the league, and a HC who had only been a HC for a year prior.  That's a whole lot of "Gee, we just don't have enough info on these guys to make a decision" at two key positions in the organization.  The Rams made a significant splash with a similar approach, as well.  Now you have other teams looking to follow the leader and mimic that successful template.

Football is like the stock market.  Anyone can look at a booming brand and say "Gee, that looks like a good investment" but the key to really cashing in is to be able to see what a brand is doing BEFORE it hits it big and invest on the calculated risk that you are getting in on the ground floor before it goes up up and away.  

So we also have Marvin Lewis saying things like "Who saw the Eagles winning the SB?" which is a hoot coming from an organization that has kept him employed for a generation or so.  The Eagles saw the Eagles winning the SB, Marvin.  They saw Carson Wentz when the Browns didn't, they saw Doug Pederson as a HC from the Reid tree, they saw Nick Foles as a legit QB when the Rams and Chiefs were sure he was done, and so on.

Again, if we are too dead-set on putting the unknowns at the bottom of the list we may as well be ranking the 2015 QBs instead of the 2018 ones.  Come on, we aren't betting our lives on these guys...take a fake risk!