What about Landry Jones ? He's a four year starter at a big time school and is a gun slinger and seems like a good QB. What do you Draft guru's think about him ?
I'm not a fan of Jones. He might become a back up QB in the NFL, I doubt he will ever be a successful starter. He is an inconsistent player, especially against talented teams. Seems to never make the big play when needed. Looks great at times and then looks awful. Not very mobile and plays out of the shot gun quite often.
Gotta retract something i previously said, seems like his "football IQ" is not so good, at least that's what most college scouts say. I'll take there word.
I like Jones. There are definitely things in his game that he needs to get better at and wouldn't want to draft him in rounds 1 or 2. But as a 3rd or 4th round pick he'd be perfect.
I think Jones is very defensible as a top of the 2nd round pick. I don't think he's a 1st rounder but I think he might well go there to a team desperate for a QB, hopefully not the Jets. He's big and he has a strong arm. He's played in a pro style offense. He's peaking at the right time just as his college career ends. In a lot of ways he reminds me of Chad Henne but in a better program for a QB to excel in. The issue that the scouts have with him is his mental toughness. They skate all around the pond on that one without every coming right out and saying it but Jones clearly has left people with the impression that he folds under pressure. So if a team did take him in a position that would suggest they planned to start him they'd be really wise to make sure that was a 2014 or later proposition. That would give them the opportunity to really get him grounded. Two years on the bench wouldn't hurt. The guy has made a lot of great throws in his college career and he has led the Sooners to some very interesting wins at this point. He has thrown the ball as much as anybody in the country over the last 4 seasons. He's really a gunslinger. The question is whether or not he's got the shakes.
Jones just adds to the list of developmental QBs who all have ability but are not their yet. If someone could coach him up he would be a BEAST of a QB, but he is not a starting qb at the nfl level
Picks like that almost always fail. If the guy was really good there is no way he is hanging out in the 4th round waiting to get taken. So the only way you find a great QB in that situation is if everybody missed something (including you) and you have excellent coaching to go find that value and get it to come out. If you really needed a QB you went and got one. You didn't wait until the 4th round to take a guy at the game's most valuable position that 32 NFL teams (including you) had passed on at least 3 times. There are other thing that come into it, like a GM having his job on the line with a 1st or early 2nd round QB but not really being in jeopardy with a later pick, but the thing that is most important is that nobody really thought the guy was that good to begin with or somebody would have snapped him up early.
