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.
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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