Speedofsand wrote:
krazie45 wrote:
Speedofsand wrote:
krazie45,
Feel free to join us in the year 2010 at your leisure. 1988 was the year Doug Williams won a Super Bowl. Steve McNair and Donovan McNabb led their teams to play in Super Bowls. There are about 15-17 black QB's in the NFL right now. Teams want the best player, at any position.
When did I say anything about NFL teams not wanting black quarterbacks? I was responding to ONE poster's particular comments that were worded poorly. Feel free to join us in this thread where you might find solace in actually READING posts before you comment on them. K thanks bye...
You implied that teams want Tebow or Smith and not Russell or Pryor.
mmmk?
You ripped Tebow and Alex Smith, who were first round picks. You pronounce Pryor to be a first round pick before his junior season. If he is THAT GOOD he will not have a Senior season because he is a first round pick already according to you. Junior season should be all he needs to show his NFL QB skills.
My mistake, you did read but you just picked and chose different things out of context and strung them together so that they'd fit your argument. Allow me to clear things up for you.
I said that Smith, like Tebow, came from Urban Meyer's spread offense and was even rated higher than Tebow. Yet Smith has done nothing in the NFL and I would expect Tebow to do the same. Tebow even had better weapons around him and a better defense than Smith.
I said that because Pryor plays in a pro-style offense where he takes snaps from under center, he will be better equipped to adjust to the NFL game than Tebow.....since this is what the thread is about right? Pryor vs. Tebow? Somehow believing that Pryor will make a better QB than Tebow is a preposterous statement despite the fact that I have supported it and the possibility has merited the argument for which this thread was created.
My comments on Russell were solely based upon comments trying to compare him and Pryor which confused me since they share nothing in common other than skin color and position. Feel free to quote when I said teams did not want him. He was the #1 overall pick. He was almost the consensus best quarterback of his draft class. He possesses the strongest throwing arm in the NFL. Why would I say teams didn't want him.
You imply that I don't think NFL teams want black quarterbacks which could not be more opposite than what I was saying. Obviously if you look at the past few draft classes you will see some names in the first round like Vince Young, Josh Freeman, Russell, Jason Campbell, Byron Leftwich, etc. All black quarterbacks taken in the first round. My other comment, if you read, was saying that if Vince Young was taken with a top 5 pick (since he is the player most people compare Pryor to physically....similar size, mobility, arm strength.) that it would not be outlandish for a team to spend a 1st round pick on Pryor.