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You think finding a QB in the draft is easy?
Joe Namath became the first NFL player to throw for 4000 yards, doing so with 4007 in 1967. The Jets haven't had a 4000 yard passer since, despite drafting 28 QBs over 56 years, 6 drafted in the 1st round, 4 drafted in the top 6.
The Vikings have had 8. Culpepper once, Favre once, Moon Twice, Cousins four times. And only one of those was drafted by the team.
They also had 18 head coaches in that time period, 1 every 3 years. The Vikings had 8 in that time period. Not exactly an environment conducive to developing QBs.
Quote: @medaille said:
They also had 18 head coaches in that time period, 1 every 3 years. The Vikings had 8 in that time period. Not exactly an environment conducive to developing QBs.
Four of those coaches were Bill Parcells, Rex Ryan, Herm Edwards...and Bill Belichick for a day.
Living and acting in fear of failure is a solid recipe for continuing to reside in the middle of the pack.
Quote: @purplefaithful said:
Hey, many of us lived through this shit.
Many choose to forget
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Minnesota_Vikings_starting_quarterbacks
Not many team's can claim a trio like Spergon Wynn, Brooks Bollinger and Sean Mannion. Although Mannion has played for the Bears so there is another possible barrel bottom that could be defined. Interesting that a barrel, by definition, has an equal diameter top and bottom, for what its worth.
Quote: @pattersaur said:
Living and acting in fear of failure is a solid recipe for continuing to reside in the middle of the pack.
Who's doing that?
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
You think finding a QB in the draft is easy?
Joe Namath became the first NFL player to throw for 4000 yards, doing so with 4007 in 1967. The Jets haven't had a 4000 yard passer since, despite drafting 28 QBs over 56 years, 6 drafted in the 1st round, 4 drafted in the top 6.
The Vikings have had 8. Culpepper once, Favre once, Moon Twice, Cousins four times. And only one of those was drafted by the team.
and yet we think we are going to draft a replacement that will be better than Cousins
Quote: @Vanguard83 said:
@ MaroonBells said:
You think finding a QB in the draft is easy?
Joe Namath became the first NFL player to throw for 4000 yards, doing so with 4007 in 1967. The Jets haven't had a 4000 yard passer since, despite drafting 28 QBs over 56 years, 6 drafted in the 1st round, 4 drafted in the top 6.
The Vikings have had 8. Culpepper once, Favre once, Moon Twice, Cousins four times. And only one of those was drafted by the team.
and yet we think we are going to draft a replacement that will be better than Cousins
Listen mister, if we say we're going to draft our QBOTF this draft? We damn well mean it.
How many QBs have had a JJ, a 17 game season, and pass friendly offense in a game that strongly favors the passing game more now than ever in he history of the game? I'm not saying this as a knock on guys that have done it recently, but the game has changed drastically in the favor of the QB the last couple years. Almost 1/3 of the QBs in the league passed for over 4k yards the last 2 seasons.
As far as the Jets ineptitude, well they aren't exactly the role model for how to run a franchise, been plenty of WTFs from that crew over the last 50 years.
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