Manuel isn't going to to much for the Bills, reports say they want him to sit for a year and learn the game while Kolb starts. Imagine a White qb taken in the 1st round given a year to learn in this day and age. Smith to the Jets.....not going to do anything either. They can't have every black qb look good, Seattle and San Fran had great running games and good defenses. It doesn't take a great talent to win for them. Shanahan also has a great system. Notice how Cam isn't doing that great, its going to be the same for the black quarterbacks selected this year, wouldn't be a surprise to see a decline in RG3, Wilson and Kaepernick. They are game managers. Despite the best efforts of the recruiting services, colleges, and the NFL, there is no Tom Brady/Manning/Brees/Rodgers type of black qb out there, and none that have shown the potential to be close to those guys.
White qbs will still get drafted, they will get the luxury of sitting for some time like it was meant to be. We have Luck, teams are really high on Mallet as a future franchise qb. Ryan Griffin from Tulane shows a lot of promise and talks of him going to the Saints and developing behind Drew Brees. There would have been a lot of controversy if the qb needy teams decided to draft guys like Barkley and Nassib over Smith and Manuel, which is why most of them solved qb problems in free agency.
Whites will continue to thrive at qb no matter how bad they try with all of the mediocre defensive backs etc, but a very dark draft, no Chase Thomas or Ryan Swope in the first 3 rounds? thats just ridiculous. I figured they would at least go in the 3rd. With all of the mediocre db prospects, nobody takes Cooper Taylor who has the talent to go in the first? Notice how teams waited until after the 1st to make a run on defensive tackles.
I think some fans might wake up after this. I can see all of the top black picks busting easily. Dion Jordan, Ansah, Mingo, Jones. There were no "blue chip" black prospects. They all scream average starters or back ups. Experts have even called this the worst draft in history.
I googled that thread, I really don't think that guy knows what he is "looking for" while watching his "film" which is just a cutups of a game broadcasted, not even cut ups of actual "film" which so many "experts" claim to watch. Swope was used more as a safety valve coming back to his qb when he was scrambling, and lots of dump offs that the defense had sniffed out before he got the ball with several defenders in front of him. the play where the black receiver was used like that, he doesn't catch the ball. The black receiver also got more favorable calls, like pushing off and then the defender grabs his shirt and the pi goes on the defense. Also drops a bal, several. Swope doesn't have to push off to get open deep. The black receiver has two of his most impressive plays with a safety covering him in man. The corner that is covering him gives him a ton of cushion on those little 8 to 10 yard routes, surprised he didn't jump it. He made a guy "miss" because he was over aggressive and tried to fly at him. Okay, straight line speed isn't everything, but I see Vernon play much better than this. Where is he at again? Why is he comparing Swope's game against Alabama who was playing top notch defense to an LSU defense that had one of their worst performances of the year? Why not Auburn? a team they both played, Swope put up 140 yards against them, or even LSU, Swope had 10 catches against them. What about Hopkin's 1 catch against South Carolina? Its not like Swope did bad either, he put up 11 catches on a defense playing very well with 111 yards. LSU had a month layoff and didn't play nearly as good as the regular season.
Wow that board is pretty intolerant. Not appropriate to raise any legitimate questions.