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I personally want Jake Long. If he's not available, my second pick would be Ellis or Dorsey. I'm just not convinced Matt Ryan is worth taking a 3rd overall chance on, and think one of those three would be the safer long-term choice. I believe that with a solid o and d line, our existing set of QBs is good enough to keep us competitive until we find the right guy for the future.Jeff Haseley said:
Excellent point - I tend to agree with you. There is good depth to the QB position in this draft. Even if they just waited one round before selecting their QB, they'll still likely have everyone available except Ryan. And if Baltimore does the same thing, it could get very interesting in the green room yet again for QBs. The decision that Atlanta makes will also be a big determining factor on what the Chiefs will decide to do. If Atlanta takes anyone but Jake Long, there's no way Long will get past Kansas City. If someone takes Jake Long before Kansas City, the Chiefs will probably take Ryan Clady and thus the OT run begins. It'll be interesting to see what happens with that 3rd pick.
I'd rather have Long/Brohm as opposed to Ryan and whoever else they get in rd2.
I don't really see him as a top 5 pick, and honestly could see him falling out of the top 10. Really, if you were to stack up Ryan against Brady Quinn, I'm not sure Ryan is that much better of a prospect.As for Atlanta, I see them going with either long if they're available, and if not, possibly d-line or trade down.
Might as well set up a poll at the Falcons homepage to see what the fans want. Winner is the pick. Horrible way to run a franchise.
I was just listening to a report on the QBs in this draft and the person commenting said that Ryan ranks on par with Roethlisberger, E. Manning and Rivers. If that is the case then he is worth the 3rd overall pick.
And, there's the rub. Not everyone equates him to those established QBs. I don't know one way or the other, I don't watch enough college ball to say one QB is better than another, I just believe that an interior lineman has less "bustability" than a QB who is stirring up quite a bit of debate on his ability to be a franchise QB.
I only saw a few of BC's games but personally I wasn't impressed enough by him to think of him as the must - have, franchise qb that he's being touted as. Overall he seemed more like a qb you want to not lose the game for you rather than a qb who will win games for you. Yes he won the first game versus virginia tech and played wonderfully for the last couple of minutes was pretty mediocre until then. That said I wouldn't mind the falcons taking him in the second or even late in the first but definitely not at 1:3 and not at the expense of passing up one of the longs or dorsey
I watched some BC games and had to totally opposite impression. I felt that Ryan was in reality the ONLY reason BC won half their games. BC just was not a very talented football team. He had by far the worst supporting caste of any of the top QB prospects.
Unfortunately you quoted my post before I was able to edit it. I will agree that bc had mediocre' wrs and I have no problem if the falcons were to draft ryan...but it would have to be in the late first or with their second round pick. I just can't see him worthy enough to spend a high draft pick on especially over both of the longs and glenn dorsey. I mean look at guys like tom brady, tony romo and drew brees...none was a first round pick.
Sigmund Bloom thinks he's a franchise QB, and, "rates as high as any Qb to come down the pike in years" and so do I
This is cherry picking. For instance- here are all the guys drafted in the fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh rounds of the draft since 2000:Chris Weinke
There's a lot of bias in looking at it this way. First round picks, because of the money and publicity are almost always given the chance to succeed. You'd be better off taking away the guys from the first list who didn't get a shot to start.
Ok how about this argument then. The GM came from a team whose franchise qb was drafted in the fifth round. In addition the new HC came from a team who saw their "franchise qb" whom they drafted in the first round become injury prone, never live up to expectations and eventually be replaced by a qb drafted in the fourth round who in his first season as a starter had one of the best TD - INT ratios in the league. With dimitrioff's and smith's past experiences why would they feel the need to draft a qb not only in the first round but early in the first round?
