Kurt Warner on Ryan Finley

[*psychdoctor*]

(08-18-2019, 12:10 AM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: The sad part with this evaluation is that you are accurate but some people are going to read that as you are saying he's the next Montana or comparing him to Montana, which you were not. Eric Zeier had these same traits but most people aren't going to know who he is if you make that comparison so you use a player that most people will know. I'll go one a bit further back . . . Finley reminded me of watching Roger Staubach more than Montana. Staubach didn't have the prettiest spiral but he bought time and got the ball to the right guy A LOT. One of my all-time favorite QBs to watch.

Back to Montana, he lasted until the end of the 3rd round (#82) because he had a "weak arm" but it turned out he had tremendous timing and led his receivers almost perfectly. Because of watching Montana, I laugh when people that never played QB say a QB doesn't have the arm to throw deep because he under throws people. Usually, he either made the read too late or mis-timed it. It's not uncommon that this happens because a WR read the defense and broke off of a route and then the QB saw it, but, since it most likely wasn't one of his first reads, he saw it just a fraction of a second too late. A lot happens on an NFL field in a two or three second span.

Paul Daugherty had a great line in the early 90's . . . "Some QBs, David Klingler comes to mind, make playing QB look like trigonometry but Joe Montana makes it look as simple as connecting the dots".

Arm strength has jack shit to do with it. Timing.

Staubach is a good comparison.  At least it does not look like a wasted 4th round pick.  What is it with the Bengals and their 4th round picks?  If Finley even makes the 53 roster and is a solid backup, I think it was an excellent pick.  This also reflects well on ZT et al. at assessing talent for a QB (I know Tobin and others were involved but still).  They had a chance to take Haskins in round 1.  They passed.