21 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby OP 27 Mar \ parent \ on: Stacker Sports- Day 113- That's My Quarterback Stacker_Sports
If Kirk wasn't hurt I would have put him in top 10. I also didn't include Hurts in the top 10 since he was awful the second half of 2024. I guess I could have excluded Burrow or moved him lower because of his injury but I think he deserves more leeway than Hurts and Cousins.
I don't see how you can possibly have Herbert, who has all the talent in the world but has done nothing the past two years and Tua ahead of Purdy and Prescott.
I couldn't have him outside the top 10 and was fast running out of room. Honestly I think outside the top 5... 6-15 is pretty interchangeable.
Purdy, he's tough to judge because he's been successful, but also, there's a part of me that thinks I could be successful in shanahans system. So I'm kinda still waiting for him to prove it a bit more.
Tua when healthy and on form can be lights out. The first half of the season the dolphins looked unstoppable. But he couldn't sustain it.
But Dak, maybe it's just a personal Vendetta, for the last several years all I've heard from fox or ESPN is how Kirk can't get it done in big games... And then how they jump to defend Dak who "just needs a better supporting cast" or "it's such a shame he can't stay healthy, otherwise he'd be elite". It's just such a crap narrative from them about Dak and I just can't buy into it. He's had a fantastic supporting cast for years and just crumbles in big games but gets off scott free about it. My Kirk defence makes me anti Dak 🤣
But yeah anyone around that 6-15 could be changed and swapped out viably for any of the others... Except Jordan Love... Because he's a greasy grimey green bay packer and I won't acknowledge him as good until he leaves in FA and joins the jets inevitably 🤣
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If you discount the weapons and system in Purdy's case why don't you do that same for Tua? He has the fastest WRs in the game and the fastest RB and still had 2 less TDs than Purdy and 3 more INTs. Plus McDaniel who helped design the 49ers offense.
Fair point about Dak. I should have had him lower despite him having an incredible year as a penalty for being a disaster in big games.
I think it's going to be a tough year for you because I think the Packers are going to be good.
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You make great arguements and point out the hypocrisy in mine. I can't defend that stand point after having it pointed out. It seems inadvertently I give Tua the benefit of the doubt but not Purdy. Perhaps despite success I still hold something in the idea that Tua was a highly touted draft prospect... But purdy wasn't. Although he's been successful, it's really hard to believe that every single scouting department across 32 teams was wrong about him. Yet there they are... Wrong, whilst he has had better success with arguably lesser weapons than the 1st round pedigree Tua. It's an inconsistency in my thought process and is probably unfair to purdy to still count him as irrelevant despite having shown he is not.
Tua... You may fall into the interchangeable 10-15 and Purdy, you may have Tuas spot.
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Wouldn’t be the first time guys got overlooked because of size and athletic traits. Brady was picked late and Brees was picked in the second round and Kurt Warner wasn’t drafted at all.. In retrospect all those guys should have gone first overall in their respective drafts. I am not saying Purdy is in the same class as those guys but it happens that guys fall through the cracks and then develop into great players.
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I mean when you say it like that it almost sounds ignorant to have taken the stance to overlook them and Purdy in the first place. But absolutely, sometimes the scouts get it wrong... Remember the Chosen Josh Rosen?? The cardinal's may have done him dirty but he went 2nd overall and was meant to be the next big thing. Perhaps I need to reevavulate how much stock I place into what their draft stock was and more into how they've actually performed.
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