Let's talk specifically about John Elway for a minute. Shall we? Elway's Stanford teams were 20-23 overall during his time there. He never led them to a bowl game.
Is it your position that Elway wasn't a great QB? He set all kinds of records at Stanford and was runner up for the 1982 Heisman trophy. But his team was 20-23 with no bowl appearances.
He was the consensus number 1 pick and struggled for years to win a Super Bowl. Later in his career the Broncos hired Tannahan, who installed a top running game, and Elway finally got over the hump.
Hopefully, this specific example will allow you the chance to extricate your deeply entrenched heels and realize that a great QB can languish on a bad team.
You can't be a great college quarterback if you had a losing record, overall. That's **** near impossible. All this tells me is that the Heisman is a f*cking joke.
Jared Goff finished as one of the best passers in cfb last year. The past 2 seasons he was rated very highly by PFF (cff, i guess?) and all they do is judge by their actual performance on every play in every game. He has like the worst record of any
[URL=https://www.canesinsight.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1]#1 [/URL] pick ever. guess what else, he owns just about every Cal passing record, and he only played 3 seasons (Cal btw has like 4 1st round qbs in their history, including Aaron Rodgers). he beat Mariota's pac12 records, and he left his jr yr, he'd absolutely own the pac12 record book if he stayed his senior yr. My point is he also couldn't overcome a ****ty defense. His first 2 years he won a combined 6 games!
Now Kaaya isn't as good as Goff, and isn't going to be a 1st round pick. I think his ceiling is a 2nd round pick. He just doesn't have a good enough arm to be taken too highly (kinda like Kessler). But you are crazy if you don't believe Kaaya isn't the best qb we've had in over a decade, and the 2nd best qb in the ACC right now.
Bone up. Kaaya is projected everywhere as a high 1st rounder.
Kessler was about 6 feet tall and never possessed Kaaya's deadly accuracy. Kaaya can drop a ball on a Zika baby's pin head at 40 yards.
You can save this post, but Kaaya will not be a 1st round pick (based on everything he's shown thus far). He doesn't have the athleticism of a Mariotta, Wentz, Lynch. He doesn't have the arm strength of a Hackenburg, Winston, Lynch, or even Goff who never really had a great arm. Kaaya's arm is average as far as strength is concerned. He is very accurate, especially in the middle of the field. However when he throws to the sideline, he just can't make the throws as often as he needs to. He definitely can't scramble, and he really needs to work on his pocket mobility, which was the main reason Goff was so good. I will say Kaaya is lucky as **** we switched coaches. He's definitely smart enough to be an NFL QB. Just everything I've seen doesn't scream 1st round to me, which is also why I believe he will stay for his senior year.
Basically, if he plays this year how he played the past 2 seasons, he will not be a 1st round pick, and likely wouldn't leave early. BUT he's a very good qb still, and can easily win us bowl games and take us to the playoffs, etc