ROFLMAO It has zero to do with "babying" QBs. Whatever. Remain ignorant. It's no skin off of my nose.
Why because he isn't perfect from day one? That's just silly! Hack has prototypical size, a cannon for an arm, football IQ that is off the charts, was running an NFL-type offense at 18, can read Ds, and is only 21, but he is a wasted pick because he needs to work on his throwing mechanics? Right! ROFLMAO SMH
11 for 31 against scrubs of one of the worst teams in football with 1 int. Fire the fool who scouted Hackenberg, now!!!!!
I think we saw what Hack is. As of now (and his college career for that matter) he NEEDS a clean pocket. When he senses the pocket crumbling he either panics or tries to do something beyond his ability, or both. That's when his mechanics go to absolute shit. Until he can handle that, he won't be starting.
Posts like this are the reason the acronym SOJF exists. I didn't want to draft Hack in the second round, and I think he played maybe the worst game I've ever seen a quarterback play on Thursday, but this is just foolish. Plenty of people are of the opinion that the patriots would've scooped him up later in that round if we didn't, so should the patriots have fired Belly? At some point, the keyboard warriors here have to accept the fact that they sit at home and type on the Internet for a reason while the actual NFL scouts get paid to do their job. I didn't like the pick and I think he looks terrible but I'm still willing to give a bunch of professionals a shot at doing their job. Especially someone like Chan who has been doing this for what seems like three decades. Edit: And you seem to forget that while you point out he did it again scrubs, he was playing behind one of the worst offensive lines I've ever seen.
No. I didn't. But if I wore panties, I certainly wouldn't have gotten them in a bunch like you are right now over Hackenberg and one preseason game.
He was picked too high and we are now establishing a pattern of blowing 2nd round picks. Do you agree with that?
Anyone who agrees with that is a fool because the kid has played about three total quarters of football in his first year, which everyone with a brain knew would be a total break down and rebuild year for him. And our second rounder from last year was hurt for most of the season and is behind the eight ball again this year. If you're considering injuries a "blown pick" then again, you're part of the reason the acronym SOJF exists.
A SOJF really means blindly accepting any schmuck we happen to draft that the film shows no tools are there. Yet, they believe we can change him.
So again I ask, keyboard warrior… Suppose the patriots took him later that round like plenty have suggested they would, would he still be "any schmuck"?
Not in today's NFL it isn't. You take a QB you like when and where you can if you aren't drafting in the top 5. The Jets aren't likely to be drafting that high again any time soon. As several have pointed out, he never would have lasted until the 3rd round. If he fixes his mechanics this offseason, he could our starter for the next 15 years.
You know it is too high, but you think he can be fixed. He has way more wrong with him than throwing mechanics and it's easy to see in the 3+ quarters he had made debacles of. Again I ask, (since it is so easy to fix this guy and turn him into our next franchise QB for the next 15 years) what is your plan? You don't buy fix-r-upper QB's with 2nd round picks. No one in the NFL has, because if they can't be fixed you simply release them. You sure don't waste 3-5 years trying to fix it either. There isn't any way the Patriots would have drafted Quackenberg. Unless it was 5th round or later.
