Originally posted by Niners99:Originally posted by owiseone:
Blaine Gabbert threw only 16 touchdowns in the spread offense last year! Are you guys kidding me! You want us to draft a guy that throws 16 touchdowns in his last year of college oppose to the heisman trophy winner who accounted for 40 touchdowns and a national championship while playing in the sec!!! If he throws for only 16 touchdowns in division he was in I wonder if he would have even started on an sec team at all! You guys want us to take him #7 with 16 touchdowns? Are you kidding me!
All Heisman winning QB turn out to be NFL gold. well, except for Andre Ware, Ty Detmer , Gino Torretta, Charlie Ward, Danny Wuerffel, Chris Weinke, Eric Crouch, Jason White, Matt Leinart, Troy Smith, and Tim Tebow. oh wait....
college stats mean nothing. from 1989 to 2007, 12 QB have won the Heisman for their college stats and performance. 11 of them have been NFL busts, or not made it far enough to even bust. Carson Palmer is the only winner that was worth anything in that span. obviously its looking good for Sam Bradford so far, but the point is its fundamentally sound guys with the leadership intangibles that make it in the NFL, not guys like Cam Newton who can throw it 85 yds and was the college MVP.
How many of those guys played like Newton last year and posted those types of numbers? Newton is in the mold of a Mike Vick. Randall Cunningham and Donovan Mcnabb. He certainly isnt in the Mold of a Matt Lienart. The Heisman doesnt mean squat, his physical skill set does.