Quote
max
Quote
zn
Quote
max
Wentz is more like Joe Kapp than Roger Staubach.
He's actually more like Terry Bradshaw, only smarter but without Bradshaw's rocket arm.
McNair.
And it adds further ammunition to the question, why didn't Fisher want a McNair type QB that he had so much success with?
For whatever reason, Fisher saw Goff as enough better than Wentz to make the change from the style of QB that he had tangible success with. I don't believe he would have gone with Goff if he saw them both as close to equal.
Either way it is just us making up the idea that if Fisher had success with McNair then he was therefore screwed into a permanent mindset.
That doesn't even make sense.
It's not like there was a McNair and a Goff to choose from in 95. He took the best qb. What McNair and Goff do have in common, though, is that they both came out especially green. Which means that did not scare him.
Fisher is on record about what he liked about Goff. He also liked Bradford. The 3---McNair, Bradford, Goff--are not like one another. They took McNair in 95 because he was the best qb in the 95 draft. It didn't indicate some kind of permanent qb-type fixation.
Now we can go all conspiracy theory and act like Fisher embedded a reporter in the 2016 war room in order to stage an elaborate lie about which qb he preferred. A lie which included an oscar level sparkling eye effect. Or we can recognize that when a coach says this much about at this length about a player, odds are overwhelming in favor of the idea that he means it:
Quote
Michael Silver
April 29, 2016
[
www.nfl.com]
"I love Carson Wentz," Fisher said, "but Jared Goff is gonna be my quarterback. The way he gets the ball out -- how he knows where to go with it and gets it to the receiver perfectly, in stride, in the tightest of windows -- it's a sight to behold. You look at the way the Patriots play, with Tom (Brady) just zipping the ball to (Julian) Edelman and (Danny) Amendola before you can even think about touching him, and that's where football is today. And trust me, Todd Gurley will be the best friend a young quarterback can have."
Gesturing through the window to a stoplight on the corner of Olympic Boulevard and Figueroa Street -- suspended high above, across the street, a good 50 yards away -- the coach continued, "See that red light up there? If you gave most quarterbacks six footballs and said, 'Throw it at the red light,' they'd put it in the vicinity of the light, maybe a few feet away. Jared would hit the light. Hell, he'd probably break the light."
His eyes sparkling with excitement, Fisher reached for his wine glass and took another sip. It was almost time to draft, and he'd been in control of this one for nearly a fortnight -- and the veteran coach was savoring every drop of it, even the horribly invasive au jus shower.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 10/13/2017 08:27AM by zn.