My Admission Of Guilt: We Need A QB!

He’s a good cover corner, for sure. I just wouldn’t expect him to keep playing this well for an extended period of time.

How about his blown coverage, letting Roddy White over the top of him in the corner of the end zone mere seconds after Singletary chewed out the entire team for playing without their heads in the game?

Look, Goldson is a lot better than Roman…but that doesn’t mean that he’s actually good. Several times, he’s gone for a hit instead of trying to make a play on the ball, and I’ve counted at least 4 times so far this year that he’s been completely steamrolled by offensive players. Dashon Goldson is somewhere near league-average. No more, no less.

And you’re crazy – Shawntae Spencer has had his side of the field on lockdown pretty much all season. I’m sure he’ll come back down to Earth eventually, but right now, Spencer playing about as well as any DB in the league.

When in reality he’s probably somewhere average to slightly below average.

Don’t make a bold statement like that and try to rush the conversation on, because it’s blatently false. A tip pick from a backup QB and I guarantee he has no more than 2 pass deflections. He surrendered a TD to White, the game winner in Minnesota. The jury is still out but he isn’t making plays plays plays!

I’ld rather have Jake Locker than Jimmy Clausen.

Wow.
Really?

Care to explain that logic?

I mean, Locker has high upside, but Clausen just flat out outperformed him when they played against each other.
And the effort he put into today’s game was amazing….poor pass protection, no running game, and all of his top targets were well covered.
Yet he still kicked ass.

There may be more busts in the first round then great QBs but name a great QB outside of Brady and Montana that came after the 2nd round. There is a much greater chance to get a great QB in the first round then in the later rounds.

Most of the better QBs come later in the rounds

But we don’t know who it is and what are the chances of us landing him?

Off the top of my head:
Late round QB success stories:
Joe Montana
Matt Hasselbeck
Tom Brady
Kurt Warner
Tony Romo (does he count?)
Brett Favre/Drew Brees (both 2nd rounders….do they count as “late round steals”?)
Matt Schaub (same situation as Romo….sort of?)
Jake Delhomme (well obviously he sucks now, but he used to be good)

1st round successful QBs
Big Ben
Jay Cutler
Phillip Rivers
Eli Manning
Peyton Manning
Aaron Rodgers
Carson Palmer
Troy Aikman
Terry Bradshaw
John Elway
Joe Flacco (he counts right?)
Matt Ryan
Kerry Collins (does he count?)
Donovan McNabb (does he count?)
Dan Marino
Joe Namath

(I’m a young fan so I don’t know many other QBs from back in the day)

That’s 16-9 in favor of 1st round QBs.
There’s a reason they’re picked in the first round.

Being a Meyer and non-pro style offense product, although I’d say his stellar comp. % bodes well for his translation to the NFL. McCoy on the otherhand, I don’t see why he wouldn’t.

Is he even coming out this year? I heard that he is staying one more year but not sure

If we only had to give up one 1st round pick. I wouldn’t give up both 1st round picks or a future 1st round pick. But i would give up one 1st round pick, two 2nd round picks and a mid level player (Jason Hill, Adam Snyder etc)

We could draft that tackle with our other 1st round pick. Plus we have no idea what we are going to get from the Jets (which i am under the belief is at least a 2nd) and all the money we have to spend in free agency. Just can’t discount doing it if the chance came to get Clausen who i believe is a Montana/Young type QB

Clausen is either going to take the league by storm like Matt Ryan or become an instant bust like Alex Smith. It’s hard to imagine a middle-ground.

LOL

Anyone watch Clausen’s performance against the Trojans today? Injured, no running game, sacked 6 times, hit 21 times and almost led a 3 TD 4th quarter comeback.

I am in no way discounting Locker

Yeah my roomates are from Washington and they say hes legit

They’re saying he hasn’t had reps in the offense and that’s all that’s slowing him down, that and he’s a rookie. Look at the QB in Miami a year on the bench in the same system for two offseasons does a lot for young QB’s!

He held up all his High School championsip rings and talking about how he was going to do the same thing for Notre Dame. Well, hows that going for you Clausen? Their are several QB’s I’ld rather have over Clausen. Not to mention, we need to fill holes on the OLine and at the Safety position.

All I said is he was outplayed in ONE game, now if that’s his career so be it. Frankly this Clausen Johnson riding is ridiculous, he’s not even coming out this year!

Commentators on ESPN say the same

He managed the Offense well, was he on the road or ws Clausen?

Lets wait for the next Montana, this being his son LMFAO

People still have that?

He was also ranked 3rd after Stafford and Sanchez for the 2009 QBs in the draft. The reason he fell to the 5th was his learning disability but the 49ers found a system that works for him.
In the preseason he only showed poise and a great touch. That fact that he does not throw with the laces means nothing as that is how he always threw. A case in point is that Hill and Smith both throw with the laces and aren’t that accurate.
I say, give him the opportunity to succeed next preseason. Draft another QB this year in a later round…. Maybe someone will thing that Clausen has acne and he will fall to the 5th round.

And (obviously) Davis only does that out of the shotgun – when taking snaps under center, he throws with the same grip as anyone else.