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BayBuck;1671409; said:

jwinslow;1671428; said:
Disappointing score for the haters & fawners alike... he's quite regular upstairs.

Gatorubet;1671461; said:
I think he just does not want to cause pain to anyone by beating them badly in the test....so it is a Golden Rule test result. :p

Were there Creationist/Evolution questions on the test? That would explain a lot.
 
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GoBucks1014;1679313; said:
Orlando Sentinel ? Swamp Things ? Gators Blog ? Florida Gators WR Deonte Thompson sounds happy to usher in post-Tebow era

?You never know with Tim,? Thompson said. ?He can bolt. You think he?s running but he?ll come up and pass it to you. You just have to be ready. With Brantley, everything?s with rhythm, with time. You know, a real quarterback.?

I know nothing about Brantley or Thompson, but it's going to be interesting too see how Florida handles the transition on offense. Particularly, I want to see how Florida's o-line handles the transition going from protecting an all-time great dual threat qb to a more traditional passer.
 
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Cold, Hard Football Facts.com: A tale of six quarterbacks

A tale of six quarterbacks
Cold, Hard Football Facts for March 19, 2010
The glittering genius of the Cold, Hard Football Facts is that we admire only numbers and productivity.

We put little stock in a player?s pedigree. And we put even less stock in the 'pundits' and their outdated weapon of choice, the opinion, which bounces off the steely armor of our analysis so helplessly, like nothing but little pebbles of pigskin overwhelmed by our M1A1 Abrams tank of truth.

So it is today that we dive into one of the biggest stories of the 2010 NFL draft by looking at the college productivity of six legendary quarterbacks here in the modern pass-happy era.

[FONT=&quot]Six Big-Name College Quarterbacks[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Player..........Comp.....[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Att..........[/FONT][FONT=&quot].....Pct[/FONT]..........[FONT=&quot]Yards[/FONT]..........[FONT=&quot]YPA..........[/FONT][FONT=&quot]TD..........[/FONT][FONT=&quot]INT..........[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Rating*[/FONT]
Player A...851....1,354....62.85......11,201........8.27......90.......33......100.93
Player B...825....1,232....66.96........8,772........7.12......76.......37.......95.60
Player C...841....1,383....60.81......10,286........7.44......84.......36.......93.15
Player D...493......797.....61.86.......6,625.........8.31.....52.......21.......99.04
Player E...564......986.....57.20.......7,731.........7.84.....51.......33........85.72
Player F...661......985.....67.11.......9,286.........9.43.....88.......15.......120.72
* Using the NFL formula for passer rating, not the NCAA formula

The numbers aren't even close. One player dominates. One player leaps screaming off the list, like Horshack on "Welcome Back Kotter" when he knew the answer to a question: 'Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!'

That dominant individual, of course, is Player F. This quarterback:
-Was the most accurate of any of these six passers.
-Dominated the average per attempt category - our favorite number - by better than 1 yard per attempt over the No. 2 player on the list.
-Boasts a passer rating so sky high it defies description, nearly 20 full points better than the No. 2 player on the list.

Elsewhere, Player F was No. 2 in total TD passes ? but easily No. 1 in TD pass percentage. Player F threw a TD on 8.9 percent of his pass attempts ? easily outpacing Player A, who threw a touchdown on 6.6 percent of his pass attempts.

Finally, Player F protected the ball much better than any of the other quarterbacks on this list. Player F threw an interception on just 1.52 percent of attempts ? easily outpacing Player C, who threw an interception on 2.60 percent of attempts. And you know what we've always told you: quarterbacks who throw picks lose games. Quarterbacks who don't throw picks win games.

Continued...

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I think that journalist just shot himself in the foot. He included Jamarcus Russell in the Tebow QB comparison. If anything, Russell is a perfect example of a QB that works well in a system or produces well with superior talent and some weak opponents in college.

I'll agree that some NFL talent evaluators don't know jack, but comparing stats from one college QB to another is not always apples to apples. Tebow may destroy Peyton's QB rating by 20 points, but I don't see him evolving into the kind of NFL player Manning did. Mobile QBs have some success in the NFL, but that playing style almost always leads to injuries which cripples the team later on.
 
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