Irish Boy wrote:
Notice how that isn't an answer.
First, let's assume that you were religious in your watching of Lisle high school football. You attended every game. Kept notes on the QB. This is ridiculous, but I'll play along. After all that, you were watching a 2-star QB that was honorable mention all state in a state that is not renowned for producing top flight talent. His high school ability certainly doesn't match up to any of the top draft picks amongst QBs in this draft.
Then he went to Central Michigan. Here's Central Michigan's football schedule over the past three years
9-1-07 at Kansas LOST 7-52
9-8-07 TOLEDO WON 52-31
9-15-07 at Purdue LOST 22-45
9-22-07 NORTH DAKOTA STATE LOST 14-44
9-29-07 NORTHERN ILLINOIS WON 35-10
10-6-07 at Ball State WON 58-38
10-13-07 ARMY WON 47-23
10-20-07 at Clemson LOST 14-70
10-27-07 at Kent State WON 41-32
11-6-07 at Western Michigan (Tue.) WON 34-31
11-16-07 EASTERN MICHIGAN (Fri.) LOST 45-48
11-23-07 at Akron (Fri.) WON 35-32
vs. Miami OH @Detroit, MI WON 35-10
12-26-07 Purdue LOST 48-51
8-28-08 EASTERN ILLINOIS (Thur.) WON 31-12
9-6-08 at Georgia LOST 17-56
9-13-08 at Ohio WON 31-28
9-20-08 at Purdue LOST 25-32
9-27-08 BUFFALO WON 27-25
10-11-08 TEMPLE WON 24-14
10-18-08 WESTERN MICHIGAN WON 38-28
10-25-08 at Toledo WON 24-23
11-1-08 at Indiana WON 37-34
11-12-08 at Northern Illinois (Wed.) WON 33-30 (OT)
11-19-08 BALL STATE (Wed.) LOST 24-31
11-28-08 at Eastern Michigan (Fri.) LOST 52-56
12-26-08 Florida Atlantic LOST 21-24
9-5-09 at Arizona LOST 6-19
9-12-09 at Michigan State WON 29-27
9-19-09 ALCORN STATE WON 48-0
9-26-09 AKRON WON 48-21
10-3-09 at Buffalo WON 20-13
10-10-09 EASTERN MICHIGAN WON 56-8
10-17-09 at Western Michigan WON 34-23
10-24-09 at Bowling Green WON 24-10
10-31-09 at Boston College LOST 10-31
11-11-09 TOLEDO (Wed.) WON 56-28
11-18-09 at Ball State (Wed.) WON 35-3
11-27-09 NORTHERN ILLINOIS (Fri.) WON 45-31
12-4-09 vs. Ohio (Fri.) WON 20-10
1-6-10 Troy WON 44-41 (2OT)
I bolded the games you could have possibly seen, if you had a specifically Central Michigan-centric viewing pattern, which you obviously didn't. A great number of games weren't televised in Chicago, so I'm being very generous here. A few of those games were just atrocious; they scored 6 against Arizona, 10 against Boston College, 14 against Clemson, 7 against Kansas, 17 against Georgia, lost in a bowl against Florida Atlantic, etc. He put up some big numbers against MAC competition, but, once again, you didn't see most (or any) of those games.
So let's assume that you weren't religious about watching Central Michigan. I'll guess you watched somewhere between 5 and 10 games (being generous), and some of those were kind of bad. After accumulating that evidence (a small subset of the evidence that people who actually watch this stuff for a living accumulate), you came to the conclusion that he is the 3rd best QB in the draft ... better than Clausen or McCoy.
It gets better! After all that, after claiming he's the third best QB in the draft on the basis of practically no first hand evidence, you complained about the Bears picking him in the 6th round. So, you think he is better than QBs that went in the 1st or 2nd rounds, you think he is the third best QB in the draft (which usually would mean he would go in the 1st or second round), but you don't like the pick, even though the Bears have no real backup quarterback. I'm going to repeat all of that just to highlight the ridiculousness of it: you think that the Bears got the third best QB in the draft in the 6th round, and you think that was a stupid move. Those are completely contradictory opinions.
The point of all this isn't that LeFevour is going to be awful. I mean, he probably will, but most late round QBs are, and those are just the odds. The point isn't even that the QBs in front of him will do better. The point is that you are completely willing to throw shit against the wall on the basis of practically zero evidence, and that you aren't even consistent in your completely evidenceless opinions. I can smell your bullshit from a mile away.
I'm not sure who you were looking at from "Lisle High School". Dan Fefevour attended Benet Academy. Your player thoughts & insight are no better or no worse than anyone else on this board. No one knows for sure who the hell will be good or bad. It's sports...it's supposed to be fun. Some guys you like, other guys you don't. No big deal. Don't make rocket surgery ot of it.
There are a lot of people who think both you & I are nuts for liking Tebow.
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You are the man IB, keep up the good work!
