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Rookie/Young QB Evaluations: Week 2

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Dak Prescott (Dallas)

 

The Good:

Way to avoid turnovers, young man! He does a great job of setting his feet before throwing the ball and simply does not make questionable throws. He used his mobility nicely, this week, which was an added bonus considering he scored a running touchdown. Dak did what most young QBs failed to do, and that was simply not losing the game.

 

The Bad:

I can't think of any instance in particular but you can't convince me that there aren't potential TD passes out there with Dez, Witten, Williams, and Beasley on the field. He also failed to get Terrance Williams involved at all, which is bad. Williams thrives on targets, and if he's rarely targeted, he's practically useless.

 

Overall:

Dak is fine. He's not close to Romo as far as making tough throws is concerned, but he might be better at avoiding turnovers, which is a good thing. I don't think he's approached stealing the starting gig yet, but if he starts throwing TD passes, Tony is in trouble.

 

Carson Wentz (Philadelphia)

 

The Good:

Holy ball placement, Mr. Wentz. Very rarely do we see some of these throws, even from longtime elite QBs. Carson Wentz has put on a clinic in his first two starts as far as elite arm talent is concerned. The question is, can he keep it up? He's also avoided turnovers, which is key in a ball control offense. I still can't believe how comfortable he is making adjustments and calling audibles and protections at the LOS. This shit is unreal. He's not throwing for 400 and 4, but he's doing things from a maturity standpoint that we have not seen from a rookie QB in recent memory.

 

The Bad:

SLIDE. GET OUT OF BOUNDS. Stop taking hits, Carson. Also, he nearly killed Nelson Agholor on a throw into triple coverage (with great placement, mind you) that Agholor still managed to catch while being annihilated. There were a couple of these throws from Wentz tonight. He needs to keep that in mind, moving forward. Your receivers can't make plays for you if you unnecessarily put them into concussion protocol.

 

Overall:

Carson Wentz is not throwing a boatload of TD passes, but he's got complete control of the offense and continues to make throws we just don't see from that many quarterbacks in the game of football at all. So far, he has been far better than I expected and I'm thrilled to be speaking so highly of such a high character individual from my home state.

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Trevor Siemian looked pretty comfortable against the Colts. He wasn't making the best throws possible at all times, and he got picked off on a screen pass, which is really more pre-snap adjustments than post snap mistakes. You take the ball and throw it in that situation, but if you read the guy coming in on the blitz, you check out of the play into something else. He can run the scripted offense, and is decent at improvising under pressure, but you can tell the mental game isn't all the way there yet. Still, this is better QB play than we had with Peyton, so I'm satisfied with the early results.

 

Carson Wentz is doing a lot of impressive things with his adjustments and throws under pressure, but I am noticing a trend for him to put everything on his back, which leads to him taking some high risk shots. He has to be careful if he doesn't want to RGknee himself out of the league. I know his team is stupid unreliable (those drops, maaan) but sometimes you need to remember the season is a marathon, not 16 wind sprints.

 

Marcus Mariota showed good mental toughness to rebound after last week's choke job against the Vikings, but he wasn't this omnipresent impact machine or anything. He took the throws that were there, made the important touchdown throws he needed to, and the Titans walked away with a win they probably wouldn't have got otherwise.

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I think Siemian looked a bit better than he did in week 1. His average was up a bit, and he moved the team really well on a few of the drives. He does need to see the CB breaking on the ball on the INT, that was an easy pick-6 if Butler doesn't blow a tire. I think he will, but I blame some of that on the predictability of Garyball... that was a film room turnover 100%.

 

This is what I like about Trevor Harambe:

 

http://gfycat.com/UncommonAcclaimedCock

http://gfycat.com/HappygoluckyWeirdDalmatian

http://gfycat.com/OffbeatBadHagfish

http://gfycat.com/ThirstyIllfatedCottontail Mathis breathing down his neck, 25-yards in the air, that ball is perfect.

http://gfycat.com/RemoteQuickFlamingo

http://gfycat.com/SnivelingAcrobaticImago

 

The thing that impresses me is the consistency. His throwing motion, release, even the damn spiral is almost perfect everytime. Every time he throws. Like Razor said, the mental aspect of the game has a ways to go. The guy only played like 14 games in college and now 2 at the pro-level. At any rate, it's a fuck of a lot better than Peyton Manning last year already :badass:

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I think Siemian looked a bit better than he did in week 1. His average was up a bit, and he moved the team really well on a few of the drives. He does need to see the CB breaking on the ball on the INT, that was an easy pick-6 if Butler doesn't blow a tire. I think he will, but I blame some of that on the predictability of Garyball... that was a film room turnover 100%.

 

This is what I like about Trevor Harambe:

 

http://gfycat.com/UncommonAcclaimedCock

http://gfycat.com/HappygoluckyWeirdDalmatian

http://gfycat.com/OffbeatBadHagfish

http://gfycat.com/ThirstyIllfatedCottontail Mathis breathing down his neck, 25-yards in the air, that ball is perfect.

http://gfycat.com/RemoteQuickFlamingo

http://gfycat.com/SnivelingAcrobaticImago

 

The thing that impresses me is the consistency. His throwing motion, release, even the damn spiral is almost perfect everytime. Every time he throws. Like Razor said, the mental aspect of the game has a ways to go. The guy only played like 14 games in college and now 2 at the pro-level. At any rate, it's a fuck of a lot better than Peyton Manning last year already :badass:

 

I wanted to evaluate Siemian again, but had to miss that game. I'm pulling for the guy, but I also want to see Paxton Lynch.

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Kessler-Chart.png

 

This chart is a pretty good explanation as to why I liked the QBs I did. Kessler is immaculate when dinking and dunking. Paxton has the GOAT deep ball. Wentz is inconsistent beyond 20 yards. Goff has the ability to do well on anything between 0-30 yards. Hackenberg and Cook are jokes.

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I read Kessler added about 10-15 yards on his deep ball since being drafted. Can't find it right now though.

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I read Kessler added about 10-15 yards on his deep ball since being drafted. Can't find it right now though.

Really doesn't matter much IMO. As long as he is accurate he's fine. I'd rather him hit 40 accurately over have him hit 55 inaccurately.

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doesn't say shit about poise.

 

he's gotten better every game. stop hating because he wasn't on any of your 'big boards'.

 

besides, the 4th link down I posted was poised af.

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doesn't say shit about poise.

 

he's gotten better every game. stop hating because he wasn't on any of your 'big boards'.

 

besides, the 4th link down I posted was poised af.

I'm hating because everyone is jerking him off even though he's mediocre as fuck :yao:

 

Response after season opener was that Siemien was gods gift to football.

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