Not laughing at Teddy - I was rooting for him to make it. Liked his shiftiness but not so much the arm. Just laughing about the apparent argument that drafting Teddy somehow makes Spielman even somewhat ok at rating QBs. I politely disagree.
He was pretty small for being a QB and it wasn't a normal ACL, I thought that it was every ligament in the knee AND dislocated knee. Personally, I have never heard of that happening on a drop back.
I was rooting for Teddy to make it, but, maybe pro football just wasn't in the cards for him? Tough to scout it I guess, but, you can't give Spielman the benefit of the doubt when he has no track record with QBs.
There was talk of Teddy being a top 5, maybe top 10 pick iirc. He could have fallen for a reason, we don't know what other (more competent) scouts may have seen in him.
Anyway, I have no issues with Teddy or most of this team, just Spielman trotting out ANOTHER journeyman QB with a team that could be elite....its just typical. He actually thought Sage Rosefels was good and signed him twice (and for different teams). This is why we have garbage behind Bradford and stability at the position for the past.... is it over a decade now?
No it wasn't every ligament in his knee... he tore the ACL, and had some secondary damage due to knee dislocation. His PCL and MCL did not tear, only his ACL.
I think it's hilarious that you talk about Rogers falling in the draft in hind sight, and credit the Packers for it... yet when Teddy was actually called the consensus #1 entering that college season, and many still believing it after that college season, but "pro day" performances causing Blake Bortles of all people to jump ahead of Teddy, when Teddy had actual game performances to show he was good and Bortles didn't... Teddy fell for just as stupid reasons as Rogers did... just like Dan Marino back in the 80's... brilliant scouts didn't like how low Marino held the ball, and even though he had one of the fastest releases ever, where he held the ball was supposedly going to be s problem, he'd never get the pass of because he'd have to bring it up so far first...
Scouts drop players for dumb reasons all the time. Teddy was dropped because he threw on his pro day without gloves, yet he plays all the time with them. His balls tis fluttered a bit more than normal, and his accuracy suffered a bit.
THAT is why he dropped to us. It was well documented at the time.
Yet he stepped on the field, and his head for the game and his very high accuracy were immediately apparent, and everyone felt we had the best QB in the draft and was expected to have a huge breakout last year like Carr broke out at that same time.
He was taking AHEAD of Carr at the time of injury...
Your criticisms are therefore, irrational IMO.
