A Solid Case Why The Redskins Are Targeting Ryan Mallett

His line and WR’s sucked. And actually, you could make the case that he was his teams best RB.

was the QB who managed to hit Anthony Armstrong in stride this season. Donovan couldn’t do that in any of his 13 games.

where in the hell have you been for the last 3 months? I feel like I have been fighting this uphill battle alone.

I love the detractors who point to any flaw they can about Ryan(he’s too tall, he injury prone, he’s stupid etc.). I have been directing these same people back to his stats for months, yet they still continue to agrue. So people just don’t like the kid, and will find any reason in the world to tyr and diminish his value with unfounded reasoning.

I wasn’t, and am still not 100% sold on how well he fits into our offensive scheme, but with a QB of his calibur, you certainly build your system around his strengths. The kid DOES throw very well on the roll-out, and of course he has the arm strength to make every throw reqiured of a top-notch NFL QB.

I have also been making the arguement to show what he did against SEC defenses. There was actually one poster who said they wouldn’t touch him because of his poor bowl game last year; unbelievable! What, the kid isn’t allowed to have a bad freakin game?

I think Mallett has the most potential of any QB in the draft (more than Cam, who I don’t like as a prospect). I’d even be okay with the idea of drafting him in the second round. I was just pointing out a flaw (yes, Tiller) in his game. His movement is more awkward than the other QBs you mentioned—it’s just something we need to take into account when evaluating him. To fall in love with a prospect to the point where you start ignoring flaws is dangerous. It’s also important not to nitpick to the point where you ignore all of a guys’ strengths. I’m just trying to stay between those two extremes.

“Heart, smarts, and accuracy”. Also played in the puny WAC.

I think poster “Dammit Cerrato…” is actually Tim Tebow secretly trolling this site trying to give more cred to QBs in bad QB drafts that only have their Bible Studies classes to lean on as a crutch due to talent and athleticism deficiencies.

When you go back and watch film of Ponder over the last 3 years, what do you see that makes you think he will survive in the NFL? I see and injury prone, underachiever, who now has arm problems. Do you see the same?

The Packers other safety should have made the Pro bowl, I can’t remember his name right now but didn’t he have like seven interceptions?

Almost every player on the front seven is playing out of position in the 34. The only exceptions that I see are Adam Carreker and London Fletcher. Rak remains a liability in coverage and also in my opinion stopping the run. He’s playing too tall from a two-point stance. He’s a much better pass rusher as a 43 defensive end.

I have been leaning that way for a while. I am admittedly one of those guys who hasn’t really seen these guys play and gets all his information from what they read (I do read more than just here there). At first I think I started Ponder out of process of elimination, but the more I read about him the better I like him.

I do, I think he’s the guy to want leading your team. For a guy who had s around him in Washington, and a bad record, he did lead them down the field when he needed too. USC twice, Washington State, Nebraska when it was needed. I like Locker but he cannot start in a year, not at least to where he can be successful. I make this point not only because of Locker’s development, but because of the support around him (or lack there of) this team is not going to be competing for awhile, so why rush a project like a Locker or a Dalton to the field. This roster is not ready, and it takes time. One of these guys may be the answer, but it doesn’t have to be now. I’d prefer Grossman out there, I know we’re not going to win this season, and I think the real fan knows the process involved in something like molding a team.
Ponder is no sure thing, as much as everyone is arguing it.

talk about shooting an absolute blank on a high-draft pick. I almost fall out of my chair when I read that one guy screaming for Dalton/Locker picks based on character. I think we have an expert from the Southern Baptist Convention trying to influence our decisions in D.C. ’fellas

He’s going to be a stud, and the other teams know that despite I’m sure everyone (like us apparently) has a fiery little minority who doesn’t like a particular selection, like drafting Ryan Mallett. I can see Mallett being a B+ version of Dan Marino without a doubt, can’t wait/really hope we get the chance & bite on it to nab him in the 1st. If not, at least go Tyson Smith.

WRs are just as unpredictable as QBs – moreso because they’re less prepared for the unique (non-unique to QBs transitioning from the NCAA to the pros) from collegiate star to ump’teenth option in most cases. Crossing my fingers for Ryan Mallett to wear Redskins colors on draft day, or if he doesn’t make it to #10, for that man to be Tyson Smith.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_/id/25963/gruden-qb-camp-ryan-mallett

Click on the link and the video and try your best to like what comes out of Mallet’s pie hole.

D’Onofrio, Tony Shalhoub, plus Smith & Tommy Lee Jones

Sugar water.

Case in Point 1: Mallett isn’t Mike Vick, but neither are Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Matt Hasselbeck, or Big Ben Roethlisburger. He can roll out & did successfully against SEC defenses, the most blistering & difficult for QBs to face in the NCAA
Case in Point 2: Has best arm strength in the draft
Case in Point 3: Has the best short-pass and intermediate-pass accuracy. On long-passes has the most energy in his throws and only needs to be taught to set his feet better.
Case in Point 4: Mallett’s stats. They don’t lie.
Case in Point 4A: Despite unforeseen betrayal by Michigan after Carr left & being shunted off by Rodriguez, being penalized a year for filing a transfer request to Arkansas, then going to a school where he was unfamiliar with the coach & personnel, he improved dramatically against the most potent defenses in college football – and he wasn’t face-crushed Byron Leftwich-style.
Case in Point 4B: Kyle Shanahan runs a modified West-Coast offense that is designed for big-plays instead of dink & dunks. If we draft Mallett in the 1st-round, we can build protection for him if we don’t repeat past mistakes & mortgage picks for trades and stick to a plan of drafting hogs over the next two years.
Case in Point 4C: Also, the Shanahans emphasize the running attack when big-play passes are not in the mix, and their typical stable of running backs will take pressure off of Mallett too.
Case in Point 5: Played in a pro-style offense under Bobby Petrino. The most daunting aspect of developing quarterbacks is getting them to get used to the pro-style. That’s already been done for us. All he would need to be taught would be to improve his legwork and setting his feet under pressure.
Case in Point 6: Compare his numbers to Locker’s stats. The numbers don’t lie, Locker is just not that great a prospect. He has the physique but not the ability. And regarding Locker’s superior rushing stats., it’s a lot easier running from PAC 10 defenses that in part helped Oregon blitz offensive #‘s like scalpels through butter on the sun. Which makes his passing stats that much less auspicious, and leads to 6A.
Case in Point 6A: Then couple that with the fact that Locker had a stable collegiate career where coaching turnovers & offensive philosophy revolutions didn’t force him to adjust to a new coach, adjust to new personnel & a new receiving corps, or adjust to a new conference like the SEC and its attendant best defenses in the country

And any concern about his athleticism is overblown. No he’s not going to outrun defenders, few QBs do. But he’s not totally inept. He can side-step a defender in the pocket and is a quite effective passer when rolling out. If you watch the video above, you’ll see a quarterback who can evade the rush a little bit and can pass the football with zip and accuracy on the run.
Case in Point 7: Has the best field vision of any QB in this draft. And in terms of “attitudinal” concerns, unless you go to BYU or Liberty, finding a normal college student athlete that hasn’t gotten drunk and/or smoked grass is easy tracking jackalopes. You find me a student that hasn’t experimented in college, which for 90% of people plays a key laboratory function in the proper socialization of emerging adults, and I’ll track you down a unicorn.

Case in Point 8: Most importantly in terms of intangibles, our team, the Washington Redskins are THE most uniquely endowed with the right veteran personnel to inoculate Mallett from any maturity growing pains. The way our team leaders like London Fletcher-Baker, Chris Cooley, Rocky McIntosh, and especially (and counter-intuitively) DeAngelo Hall – who’s been through growing pains before but found his path to righteousness in Washington, have handled so much in their careers, to most recently presenting a united front against Haynesworth & were in solidarity with Shanahan when they collectively showed Haynesworth who’s boss when he pouted, in a vacuum a team might give pause if they were young, developing, and dumb in terms of inexperience like the Bucs, but we don’t have that kind of makeup. We HAVE the personnel to groom this guy perfectly, from our players to our coaches.

That being said, all of this nonsensical smattering by a few nuts about picking Locker, much less Andy Dalton, is about the dumbest alternative I’ve read & there isn’t a single consistent NFL source that’s echoed drafting either of them as high as in the first 10 picks. Alternatively, GMs at the most consistently improved organizations (Patriots, Jeff Ireland & the Dolphins on-record) are showing interest at possibly picking him at a “steal” discount price if he fell to them.

So I ask you, since you’ve been uncreatively redundantly regurgitating everything the media parrots and repeats over & over without any innovation in argument at all, how about them apples. The discussion gets alot richer when you say more than what you heard ESPN talking heads say & read in virtually indistinguishable and unchanging pre-draft report analyses. No pick’s a sure thing – and there are arguments against him because of the intrinsic imperfection of almost any high draft pick, but you haven’t made any.

As such he’s as good a QB pick we’ll get a look at to build around in the near-future, especially if you contextualize our player personnel’s preparedness to help groom him and what he brings (cumulatively see above).