Gang Green Nation Community Mock Draft Pick #4
by John B on Mar 21, 2010 12:39 PM EDT
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You never know what the Redskins are going to do in real life. GGN reader eighthoursaway tries to give Dan Snyder some advice on what to do.
With the fourth pick of the Gang Green Nation Community Mock Draft, eighthoursaway picks for the Washington Redskins...
Sam BradfordWatching Jason Campbell play quarterback in the NFL is very depressing. He has shown (small) glimpses of promise, but I think it's time to move on and bring in someone fresh. Bradford has great pocket presence and could add some excitement to this team's passing attack. They have plently of talent in the backfield and some decent WRs, not to mention Chris Cooley and Fred Davis, both excellent TEs. Campell still seems uncomfortable in the pocket and I don't see him every getting over that. Change is good.
My reaction:
I am probably one of the biggest critics of Mike Shanahan around. I think he's overrated and is living off three big years at the start of his tenure in Denver. With that said, one thing I will never question is his ability to get the most out of quarterbacks. He got Brian Griese, Jake Plummer, and Jay Cutler to have good years. That's not exactly a trio like Manning, Brady, and Brees. Even though any quarterback taken this high is talented, there is always risk involved. A guy like Shananhan mentoring a young quarterback minimizes that risk and gives Bradford a good situation in which to work.
I don't like Bradford as much as Jimmy Clausen. It doesn't have to do with injuries. It seems like he took a bad hit last year and then tried to come back too soon and aggravated that same injury. He should be fine. It has more to do with Clausen's experience in a pro style system while Bradford played in a gimmicky spread against bad Big XII defenses with a great offensive line. Even so, I like him because of his accuracy. The Redskins are trying to rebuild in a tough division. There's no better way than taking a guy with the goods to become a franchise quarterback, particularly with a coach adept at developing players at the position.
David's reaction:
I can't disagree with this pick, even though I see Clausen being the better option, it's close, the reasoning is solid, I have had them taking a QB from the start, I think it's pretty clear they don't have the confidence in Campbell, they have a lot of pieces in place, they just need to get the right signal called. Good pocket, accurate passer, seems like he has a good head on his shoulders. If given the right system I think Bradford can have a good effect on the team. Solid pick, it's the position I would of gone with. Possibility to go with some offensive line help here, but I think you made the righ call getting the signal caller in.
Next up are the Chiefs with michael28102 and the Seahawks with arrowshockey16.
The Draft:
1. St. Louis (David Wyatt)-Ndamukong Suh, DT, Nebraska
2. Detroit (TheSanchize6)-Gerald McCoy, DT, Oklahoma
3. Tampa Bay (nrmax88)-Russell Okung, T, Oklahoma State
4. Washington (eighthoursaway)-Sam Bradford, QB, Oklahoma
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Campbell does fine considering he has like one option on offense
I don’t think their problem is QB. Campbell gets hurried on like every damn play and he manages to play pretty conservatively and not give up a ton of turnovers. I think Shanahan could get the most out of him, if he surrounds him with some talent. And that talent should start with the OL.
As an aside… I think that if they are gonna go QB, they should go Clausen instead of Bradford. Not because Clausen’s better than Bradford, but basically because (and sorry to say this David cos I know you love ND) Clausen’s an asshole and that would jive well perfectly with Shanahan’s assholeness. :)
I really think his charachter has been stigmatized for something he did as an 18 year old. The whole showing up in the stretch hummer portrayed a certain picture to the national media that they have run with for the last three years. What they have failed to do is actually watch him grow up. He isn’t the same guy that came in that night, he has matured, he has grown up, and what has he done over the last two years that really can be charachterised as him being as “asshole”? beer olympics, is that the only thing? The only problem was he got caught, all these college kids are going to be involved in underage drinking, that’s what college is about.
Jimmy had a lot of expectation coming in, hell the media were already saying he was better than Montana when he rolled into ND, try and live with that as the starting QB. He doesn’t talk to the media a great, deal, won’t give you essay length responses, he just wants to play football, and everyone of his team mates over the last two years, talked about his maturity and him blossoming into a leader on the team. Unfortunately the media still paint him with the same brush they did as a 18 year old because they haven’t watched him grow up.
Him dropping because of “attitude” and “leadership” problems is completely ridiculous.
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I'll take Clausen over Bradford.
Doesn’t that shoulder worry people? Look at what happened to Chad after his first shoulder problem. Any hit to the right arm and I would be cringing every time if Bradofrd were my QB.
"Relax, all right? Don't try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring; besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. It's more democratic."
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Exactly, I can’t understand how that doesn’t bother people a little more, he was protected well at Oklahoma until last year and a couple of hits and he went tumbling with serious shoulder issues. Clausen took one of the biggest beatings in NCAA history in 2007 with the amount of times he was sacked and hit. In 2008 he was hit quite a lot as well. I’m not sure I would trust Bradford as my starting QB
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Hey man I agree with ya, the kid’s got talent and obviously you can’t judge him based on something that happened 4 or 5 years ago. But I’d be lying if I said whenever I see him or hear him talk I don’t think “wow that guy’s a smarmy douchebag”.
I guess he does have one of those faces, and if you take that with the image the media give you, it’s not surprising you might not him all that much. However watching him, I saw one tough SOB who loved to play football, and would put it all on the line for his team. Saw him come back into a game limping all the way suffering with severe turf toe on the final drive with the Irish down, and he led that drive and found the TE Rudolph (who is going to be an absolute stud when he comes out) for the score in the endzone. Could barely walk, but he insisted on getting back into the game. I have to admire the guy for what he did here.
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Bradford is no. 1 qb on most boards.
But you can’t go wrong with either. Personally, I like Bradford. Clausen had very good recievers working with him too.
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