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still think we should have held onto him. maybe get a draft pick? who knows. got a draft pick for colt and brady Quinn"what a waste of 2 first round picks"
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Jerry's catching lightning in a bottle, man!
The last time a Cleveland QB went to Dallas, they went to the Super Bowl.
Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
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Good for Brandon. I hope he gets in a situation where he can carve out a 7-8 year career.
I wish him well.
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Holmgren must have told him what a great QB he is?
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I wish him the best except if he's playing the Browns.
He could not ask for a better opportunity than setting behind Romo, waiting to get another chance.
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Jerry Jones is such a sucker. What's his infatuation with failed baseball pitchers...
Chad Hutchinson, Drew Henson, now Brandon Weeden...
Although, if Deon Sandcastle is really Deon Sanders, it could be no coincidence that Brandon Weeden looks just like Chad Hutchinson's fraternal twin brother 
Maybe Hutch is pulling the wool over old Jerry Jones' eyes again
***Gordon, I really didn't think you could be this stOOpid, but you exceeded my expectations. Wussy.
Manziel, see Josh Gordon. Dumbass.***
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NFL teams and fans have an overt fascination w/strong armed, big QBs. Doesn't matter if they are as dumb as a box of rocks. They keep giving them chances.
On the other hand, smart QBs like Brees, Rodgers, Wilson, and now perhaps Teddy, are passed over.
Stupid is as stupid does.
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This is why I continuously preach we need to take the smartest QB in the draft. We've had the gun slingers and it gets us nothing but 3rd and outs...
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This is why I continuously preach we need to take the smartest QB in the draft. We've had the gun slingers and it gets us nothing but 3rd and outs...
You need to rethink that one.
There are quite a few wonderlic winners who are horrible QB's.
http://www.nflstatanalysis.net/2011/03/qb-wonderlic-scores.html
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There is a difference between football smart and academic intelligence.
For example, reading coverages is all about processing information rapidly. It has nothing to do w/mathematical equations or verbal reasoning or recalling facts.
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There is a difference between football smart and academic intelligence.
For example, reading coverages is all about processing information rapidly. It has nothing to do w/mathematical equations or verbal reasoning or recalling facts.
If you have a link to "football smarts" please post it, otherwise, this is just blather.
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I know you are a funny guy, but are you serious or joking?
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Sometimes I just get tired of all the bickering over subjective nonsense around here. if you have a preference that's fine, state it as such, not as the end all of factual knowledge.
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Common phrase used often. Football smarts, being able to find the best outlet quickly and get the ball to them. Being able to predict what the coverage is going to be after the snap. Being able to sense pressure surrounding. Etc...
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Sorry, didn't mean to come off terse, it's generally not my style.
Yes I know it's a common phrase that is often over used on this site and unless there is a way to truly measure it, it should be shelved.
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I wasn't bickering w/you. I love your humor. You make me laugh. I just didn't understand your comment.
Football smarts and academic intelligence are different. You really can't see how reading coverages is different than being able to do chemistry?
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Compare the way Weeden operates after the snap to the way Hoyer operates after the snap... or if you're not a Hoyer fan, then any of the other top QBs.
I only use Hoyer because he was plugged into the same offense with the same play caller and players, yet seemed to make it run more efficient and it wasn't all JUST b/c he was more accurate and etc. It was because he seemed to have a freakin' clue out there.
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Lets revisit that I was responding to a comment about taking the "smartest QB in the draft". Now that screams "Wonderlic" scores, nothing more.
Now it's being changed to, "football smarts", fine, as soon as you have a way to measure this wonderful thing known as "football smarts", I'm all in. Otherwise we're talking about peoples perceptions or opinions and if they are presented as facts, please adjust them and present them as they are, opinion.
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There is a difference between football smart and academic intelligence.
For example, reading coverages is all about processing information rapidly. It has nothing to do w/mathematical equations or verbal reasoning or recalling facts.
If you have a link to "football smarts" please post it, otherwise, this is just blather.
I think he's trying to say you can be smart/educated in one area in life but sometimes not in another.... In Weeden's case he just seemed like he obviously wasn't football smart. He didn't get it. He didn't have it for a QB. I don't think he ever will.
Now I don't know how he did in school, nor did I ever see any interviews with him that didn't involve football talk, so I can't say if he was a smart guy off the field or not.......But you know what? It doesn't matter much anymore because HE'S FINALLY GONE, thank God. And that makes me happy.
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If Romo got injured it would be too much fun to see Weeden having to start several games for the Cowboys. They are on TV WAY WAY WAY too much, and it's been that way forever.
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Okay...................it's my opinion.
Really?
You can't see the difference between processing coverages rapidly and a fluent vocabulary or the ability to sort statistics? Really?
I knew exactly what the original poster meant when he said "taking the smartest qb in the draft." He wasn't talking about calculus, he was talking about football intelligence. And it is not opinion.
Not sure why you are so cranky tonight, but give it a rest, bro.
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They have the Wonderlic test for intelligence, what is the counterpart test for Football Smarts? Certainly there must be one to eliminate any subjective feelings people would naturally bring into an evaluation.
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Alright man, you win. QBs intelligence is measured by the Wonderlick score.
Have a nice night...........
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C'mon, you know that's not what I'm saying. Have a nice night. 
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It's called the interview. They make these quarterbacks walk through different plays coverages and decisions to make sure they know their stuff.
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It's pretty obvious that you have to have a Wonderlic above 14 to be successful.
I think 25 or above should not raise a concern, but anything below that would cause a team to take a second look.
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...I was responding to a comment about taking the "smartest QB in the draft". Now that screams "Wonderlic" scores, nothing more.
Now it's being changed to, "football smarts", fine, as soon as you have a way to measure this wonderful thing known as "football smarts", I'm all in. Otherwise we're talking about peoples perceptions or opinions and if they are presented as facts, please adjust them and present them as they are, opinion.
WHAT MAKES A FOOTBALL PLAYER SMART?
POSTED BY NICHOLAS DAWIDOFF
Not long ago, I was talking about daily life in the N.F.L. with Ryan Fitzpatrick, the veteran Tennessee Titans quarterback, who studied economics at Harvard. “It’s such a physical game,” he said. “You see three-hundred-pounders hitting each other, and people think of the physicality. When people see the game, they think we’re meatheads; they think of the way jocks acted in high school. But we spend more time studying than we do on the field.”
During the period of more than a year that I spent with the New York Jets coaching staff while writing a book, I came to understand what Fitzpatrick was talking about. Football is a grand spectacle—never more so than in the playoffs, which begin this weekend—and it depends on layers of sophisticated tactics that are not immediately apparent. Winning certainly requires imposing your athletic will on an opponent; that part of the game is easy to see. Yet victories also redound to players who can outthink their adversaries. Because there are so few football games in a season, football players generally don’t learn about members of other teams by playing against them, the way baseball and basketball players do. Until they face another team—and, in a given year, they won’t see most of those outside their own division—N.F.L. players are unlikely even to be able to name most of its members. Football players must master the opposition conceptually. In addition to the raw speed and strength that professional football requires, the game involves more mental preparation than any other team sport.
In developing a game plan, coaches typically break down everything that happened in the opponent’s past four games to granular levels of “tendencies”—down, distance (to a first down), field position, and time remaining on the game clock. Once assembled, this research fills many pages of the game-plan binders players are given on Wednesday to prepare them for Sunday. (Teams have also begun to use iPads.) The binders are dense with intricate drawings and written instructions. They are often as thick as a left tackle’s fist.
The crucial portion of the game plan is a selection of new plays and modifications to old ones the coaches have created for the current opponent. N.F.L. coaches are deft and obsessive probers of game film; they live to devise. The problem is that there’s a limit to how much fresh information most players can absorb before each Sunday. Marv Levy, who coached the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls in the early nineties, told me he always fell back on something the legendary Notre Dame coaching innovator Knute Rockne once said: “I never ask if a player has the will to win. I ask if he has the will to prepare.”
Levy also wanted to know if players had a brain for football. Since every N.F.L. roster possesses talent sufficient to defeat any given opponent, one of the most coveted qualities in football players is what N.F.L. personnel men call “football intelligence.”
What kind of mind is ideally suited to football? Pat McInally studied history at Harvard, Class of 1975. He was the sort of undergraduate who, out of curiosity, visited the law-school classes of Clark Byse, the professor who was an inspiration for the Charles Kingsfield character in “The Paper Chase.” McInally was also an All-American receiver and punter. He went on to spend ten years as a wide receiver and All-Pro punter for the Cincinnati Bengals. But as far as the N.F.L. was concerned, McInally became a legend when he sat down to take the Wonderlic test and earned a perfect score—the only player ever to do so.
The Wonderlic is a fifty-question examination that tests the ability to answer increasingly difficult questions under time pressure—in this case, a limit of twelve minutes. There might be questions about pattern recognition, numerical sequences, word definition (What is the difference between “flammable” and “inflammable”?), trigonometry, and logic. “I thought it was funny we had to take an intelligence test,” McInally, now a collector of rare books and real estate who coaches at the Brethren Christian High School, in Huntington Beach, said. “I just blew through the thing.”
Among active players, Fitzpatrick is reputed to have the highest recorded Wonderlic score, a forty-nine. Or perhaps it was a forty-eight. Wonderlic scores are not made public, and while Fitzpatrick confirms that he answered forty-nine questions, skipping one that “didn’t make sense,” his score is a mystery even to him: “I have been told multiple scores, so I am unsure at this point.” Fitzpatrick has never found much of a relation between his academic talents and his football skills, but, he said, he knew that his ability to solve problems on the clock would distinguish him in the eyes of the N.F.L. draft directors. So he approached the Wonderlic with ferocity, completing it in nine minutes. His performance helped him enter the league—the average score for quarterbacks is in the high twenties. (For wide receivers, the mean is about ten points lower.) During Jets game-plan installation meetings, I saw how it gave the defensive coaches a source of motivation: they called Fitzpatrick “Big Brain,” and told their players they needn’t worry, because, under pressure, what would he do—throw a book at them?
More than any other position, playing quarterback requires mastering a farrago of detail, and then sifting through it while staring at eleven large people eager to break your face. The best N.F.L. quarterbacks, like Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and Peyton Manning, have reputations as keen, obsessive students of opposing defenses, whose schemes they decode in real time. And yet, what does it say that the great model of lethally consistent play, Peyton, scored a twenty-eight on the Wonderlic while his more erratic brother, Eli, scored a thirty-nine?
One theory some in the N.F.L. hold is that the highest-scoring quarterbacks are too rigidly scholarly, prisoners of research who don’t handle in-game adjustments well, while those whose scores are very low simply can’t handle a high volume of preparation.
Oliver Luck was twice an Academic All-American quarterback at West Virginia University, spent five years in the N.F.L., went on to law school, and is now the athletic director at his alma mater. His son, Andrew, (Stanford Class of 2012, architectural design; Wonderlic, thirty-seven) is the Indianapolis Colts’ excellent second-year quarterback. “Football intelligence to me is situational awareness,” Oliver Luck told me. “The variables in football are so many. Every play is a decision and you do it at full speed. Life involves more thought.” (If there is a dark undercurrent to a discussion of bright football players, it has to do with life after the scrum and the long-term effects that hits to the head can have on the brain.)
That said, Oliver Luck thinks that there have been certain moments post-football when his aptitude for the game has been helpful to him. “I remember distinctly sitting for the Texas bar exam after I finished law school,” he recalled. “There were maybe five hundred people in there. People were sighing and groaning. A guy one table away from me suddenly lost it. I wanted to tell him, ‘Suck it up! You can do it!’ The way I would in the huddle. I was focussed. I knew how to work through that test.”
While the defensive playbooks are much thinner than those for the offense, a defender who is a skilled interpreter of what he sees across the line of scrimmage is extremely valuable. Marty Schottenheimer played linebacker before winning two hundred games as an N.F.L. head coach, and once told me he considered the position the perfect apprenticeship for football leadership.
The Redskins’ London Fletcher is undersized and thirty-eight years old, but he’s been able to play for so long because he is a defensive Peyton Manning: seeing the game so lucidly, yelling out the offensive play about to unfold, changing alignments before the snap, organizing the field in real time. Similarly, Lavonte David, who has been with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for two years, is just two hundred and thirty-four pounds—ten to fifteen pounds lighter than most at his position—the Wonderlic scores out on the Internet for him are not especially high, and, like all players, he makes the occasional boneheaded play. But he possesses dedicated study habits and a football clairvoyance that, come Sunday, finds him ignoring the blocking flow only at the one moment during a game when the offense runs the ball away from it.
The Hall of Fame Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman Alan Page weighed two hundred and forty-five pounds, the dimension of a modern fullback. Even so, Page was terrifying. His forty-yard-dash time wasn’t anything special, either, but he says that he could run down faster opponents because he always had sense where he was in relation to the blur of bodies around him—he could “understand the situation.” Page is now an Associate Justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court. “Being a football player requires you to take your emotional self to places that most people shouldn’t go,” he said. “You wouldn’t want to get to know the person who was in my head on a football field. I likely see some of these people in my current job—those who can’t control that person—and they do not do very nice things.”
I asked him, “You could control that person on a field?”
“Most of the time,” Page said.
The safety, standing at the rear of the defense, must compensate for the mistakes of others; football intelligence matters more at this position than any other on the defense. At five-eight, a hundred and eighty-eight pounds, the Bills safety Jim Leonhard, a nine-year veteran, is among the smallest and also the slowest starting defensive backs in the game. And yet, watching him on film, he appears to teleport to the ball. Leonhard’s name seems to enter any conversation about football intelligence; he knows every teammate’s responsibilities in every call, and understands the game as twenty-two intersecting vectors. “He’d walk off the bus and you’d think he was the equipment manager,” Ryan Fitzpatrick said. “He’s still in the league because he’s the quarterback of the defense.”
From 2009 to 2011, Leonhard, a Wisconsin graduate, was a member of the Jets and, like everyone else around the team, I used to marvel at his study habits. He spent defensive meetings patiently tutoring the other safeties. One day, he showed me a hundred-and-nineteen-page PowerPoint document of his thoughts on the team’s defense—lecture notes. I asked Leonhard if, in his time with the Jets, an opposing offense had ever done anything that surprised him. He shook his head no.
Recently, we spoke again about the cerebral aspects of football. “You can see one thing while watching film, and then on the field your perspective shifts,” Leonhard said. “It’s the active recall of information on the field.” As he gazes across the line of scrimmage, he looks “for things that don’t make sense.”
In football, as in so many parts of life, the true measure of intelligence is elusive. On a Sunday field, if you combine diligent, grinding application with presence and intuition, you can triumph, even if you are slow and have a Wonderlic score of twenty-four, like Jim Leonhard. “If you notice that a team’s vertical passes come in certain personnel groups, or in certain field positions, you can change your techniques in those situations to not only be able to cover the wide receivers but to have an opportunity to get interceptions,” he said. I have watched Leonhard make several interceptions; the impression is of a crowd of bison pawing beneath the soaring ball and then a tiny prairie dog suddenly rising from the earth to secure it.
There are “situations that come up in every game: a third down and one in the fourth quarter or a third down in the red zone to force a field goal,” he told me. “Offensive coördinators usually have a couple of calls they feel they can win these situations with. They won’t run the play the same as you’ve seen it [on film], so being able to decipher a shift or a motion or a change in personnel is usually necessary. The smart players can do that consistently.”
Not every smart player will find that his intellect is drawn upon; a good deal depends on his position. The Titans’ Pro Bowl cornerback Alterraun Verner completed his mathematics degree at U.C.L.A. with a G.P.A. over 4.0. Football is a game of precise timing and geometry played on a numerical grid, and it might seem that Verner’s study of calculus, differential equations, and integrals could be of help to him. But as a cornerback, Verner is alone out on the edge, isolated with the receiver he’s covering. The relation between his studies and his sport “is not as big as some want or hope it to be,” he said. “I don’t think about angles or quadratics out there. But math people solve problems, and that’s the way you approach film study. We look at all the variables.”
Verner would have no trouble learning his team’s entire defense, but that would be pointless; feeling so removed from the real complexities of the sport, he said, “I get bored sometimes.”
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Why is an artist an artist when the rest of us are not artists?
Is it because they practice being an artist more than we do or could it be because they have an inner, God given if you will, ability to see something with their eyes and process it in such detail within their brains that their brains can guide their hands to replicate on paper, with a pencil, or brush, so much better than the rest of us. Are they "art smart"? Can that be taught that? Does it only come from the repetition of many hours of practice?
In grade school you sometimes see a third grade kid who's drawings are head & shoulders so much better than others his age. Why? Is it from his years and years of practice? I think not.
Rather, I think we all have different, gifts if you will, that make one so much better at something than that of his peers.
I fancy myself a musician. Realistically not a great one but I have fun. Growing up I'd come across another kid my own age and we'd play together. A couple of times I'd be taken aback by him as he was so far beyond my ability. Talking to him it appeared he didn't practice any more than I did. We worked on pretty much the same type and style of music. But somehow he seemed to really get what he was doing while I struggled with the "get it" part.
Practice develops finger dexterity and physical memory. Study develops understanding. But how does one account for a peer to be be so far advanced while seeming to be no brighter in any other regard?
Music all about scales and understanding them to the degree that one can understand how they relate to each other. This understanding, through study, makes it possible to eventually just do it without really thinking about it much at all.
But some people have that in spades. It just seems to make sense to them.
Others study in their every spare moment and struggle with the deep understanding of the relationships within those scales so that they are always thinking when they're playing which slows their ability to just let 'er rip.
Some people seem to be just naturally good at art. Some are naturally good at music. Some are naturally good at math, or writing, or speaking.
Some people are football smart. They excel at that deep understanding which allows them to read and react without thinking about it. They quickly make their decision and throw the ball, or make their decision and move toward the ball, the tackle or the interception.
They seem to be naturally good at processing football information. They fully absorb the overwhelming bulk of information and it becomes second nature to do the right thing, make the right play, It becomes instinct rather than a describable thought process. While their peers are still struggling with thinking about what to do, the football smart player is already doing it.
QB number one holds onto the ball while he's trying to figure out what's happening down the field while QB number two already knows what's happening down the field because he recognizes, by the subtle movements of the defenders, what they're going to do and where they're going to be. But before they can get there he has already thrown a pass to his WR for 12 yards. Meanwhile QB number one has held onto the ball too long because he couldn't process the information he was seeing quick enough to make a decision so the defenders are already in place to defend any pass he throws. So he instead scrambles around in the backfield and gets sacked or flips an underhanded, desperate toss that is intercepted for a pick-6.
QB number one is not football smart. QB number two is.
I can't begin to formulate in my mind in what manner one would go about developing a test for football smart. The only one I can think of would be to put them out on the field in a game situation and see how they do.
Those who are football smart get big contracts. Those who aren't get cut.
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I agree with Vers 100% - "processing information rapidly" is the most important role of any QB. Those that do - succeed. It is the starkest contrast between Weeden and Hoyer. Hoyer knows when he has been beat to the punch too... He then throws it to the ballboy while Weeden is trying to hard to salvage a play and flips it to a defender. In his defense, he has no choice, because he can seldom win the "processing" battle at the snap anyway. There might not be stats to support all of this but when you watch it every week, all around the league, you don't need them.
When you're good at it you can "get in a rhythm" with play calling and execution and have the defense playing on their heels. That is the key to offensive success in this league. We saw Hoyer do that on several drives. I saw Weeden do that once in his first year against Cincinnati. All of Weeden's failure was due to his inability to process information fast enough after the snap, it killed drive after drive and led to desperate QB play in every game he played in. That can happen after three bad drives in today's NFL.
I doubt that any of this has anything to do with Wonderlic scores. I think wonderlic scores have a lot more to do with whether or not players will screw up their lives off the field.
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I agree with Vers 100% - "processing information rapidly" is the most important role of any QB. Those that do - succeed. It is the starkest contrast between Weeden and Hoyer. Hoyer knows when he has been beat to the punch too... He then throws it to the ballboy while Weeden is trying to hard to salvage a play and flips it to a defender. In his defense, he has no choice, because he can seldom win the "processing" battle at the snap anyway. There might not be stats to support all of this but when you watch it every week, all around the league, you don't need them.
When you're good at it you can "get in a rhythm" with play calling and execution and have the defense playing on their heels. That is the key to offensive success in this league. We saw Hoyer do that on several drives. I saw Weeden do that once in his first year against Cincinnati. All of Weeden's failure was due to his inability to process information fast enough after the snap, it killed drive after drive and led to desperate QB play in every game he played in. That can happen after three bad drives in today's NFL.
I doubt that any of this has anything to do with Wonderlic scores. I think wonderlic scores have a lot more to do with whether or not players will screw up their lives off the field.
The article ddubia posted on this thread does not agree with your last sentence so much. Kinda interesting. Link:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2014/01/what-makes-a-football-player-smart.html
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The last time a Cleveland QB went to Dallas, they went to the Super Bowl.
I thought that too, but I dont see these Cowboys being good enough.
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Its usually done in extensive interviews like when we have QBs visiting us we will test them on the Blackboard...which I don't think exists any more...White board with color makers. You see Gruden doing his interview with a QB and have him draw stuff up from his request.
I believe the session with Gruden and Weeden he came off as a dummy ergo - football smarts.
Well this is usually done in our private meetings with the QBs. Farmer has been to the games he didn't put too much into the Pro-days probably more interested in some late round picks. I'm sure we have meeting set up before the draft on probably 5 QBs at the least in those meeting I'm sure we will be testing the Football knowledge more than anything.
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I agree with Vers 100% - "processing information rapidly" is the most important role of any QB. Those that do - succeed. It is the starkest contrast between Weeden and Hoyer. Hoyer knows when he has been beat to the punch too... He then throws it to the ballboy while Weeden is trying to hard to salvage a play and flips it to a defender. In his defense, he has no choice, because he can seldom win the "processing" battle at the snap anyway. There might not be stats to support all of this but when you watch it every week, all around the league, you don't need them.
When you're good at it you can "get in a rhythm" with play calling and execution and have the defense playing on their heels. That is the key to offensive success in this league. We saw Hoyer do that on several drives. I saw Weeden do that once in his first year against Cincinnati. All of Weeden's failure was due to his inability to process information fast enough after the snap, it killed drive after drive and led to desperate QB play in every game he played in. That can happen after three bad drives in today's NFL.
I doubt that any of this has anything to do with Wonderlic scores. I think wonderlic scores have a lot more to do with whether or not players will screw up their lives off the field.
The article ddubia posted on this thread does not agree with your last sentence so much. Kinda interesting. Link:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2014/01/what-makes-a-football-player-smart.html
Yeah, it was more or less a dumb statement on my part anyway, I was tired lol. I guess my largest concern are the peripheral tests, stats and qualities we use to "evaluate talent". How far down the flow chart does a wonderlic score come into play in determining a player's success on the field? The hot topic in this years crop of QBs is hand size... really? "Johnny this, Johnny that... oh but he has big hands!" C'mon, man!
Most of these kinds of things should only be used as red or green flags - if you score extremely high or extremely low, it might have an impact. If they pass or fail all of the other tests that actually determine how a player will translate to the field of play, wonderlic means next to nothing imo.
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not sure Jery is on board with this
Does Jerry know who Stephen signed?
Color Jerry Jones confused on the Cowboy's latest signing.
When asked if newly signed Brandon Weeden would be in the mix as a number 2 quarterback, Jerry gave the reporter an askance look and asked him to clarify the question.
When clarified, Jones said he thought his son had bought a Brand of weed eater to be used around Cowboys stadium.
One has to wonder if Jerry really has his finger on the pulse of his team, expect him to start coming to work in jump suits soon.
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Nice find, bro. Not that many will consider it. LOL Nah............Wonderlick = Football Intelligence in their eyes. 
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If you think back, Weeden wanderin' around lost under that flag was an omen, it really was..... Definitely a "D'oh!" moment.
(It sounds like something that would happen to me, but don't tell anybody.)
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