The Green Bay Packers will reportedly bring in Baylor quarterback Bryce Petty for a pre-draft visit, which should tell you something.
It should tell you the Packers are not 100 percent sold on Scott Tolzien as their No. 2 quarterback. It should also tell you that they may finally be serious about getting Aaron Rodgers a top-tier backup.
Petty isn’t Jameis Winston or Marcus Mariota, but we’ve seen him ranked as high as the fourth-best quarterback in this draft. UCLA’s Brett Hundley is third and Colorado State’s Garrett Grayson is often ranked ahead of Petty.
Still, Petty is no slouch. He’s likely a third or fourth-round pick.
Not only have the Packers only chosen a quarterback in one of the past six drafts, that guy was seventh-round pick B.J. Coleman.
The Packers M.O. in recent seasons has been to try to develop some barely drafted or undrafted guy like Coleman or Graham Harrell to be the No. 2. That, or pick up some scrap heap guy like Seneca Wallace, Scott Tolzien or Matt Flynn (for a second run).
In 2014, Petty threw for 3855 yards, 29 touchdowns and seven interceptions. He was better statistically as a junior, when he threw for 4200 yards, 32 touchdowns and three interceptions.
Obviously, he doesn’t throw a lot of picks. Who does that remind you of?
Perhaps the only knock on Petty is that he played in a spread offense at Baylor. It’s tough to determine how his game will translate to the pros.
Don’t know why people make such a big deal out of spread offense not translating. Tom Brady, Joe Flacco, Rodgers, Russell Wilson, and Cam Newton run the spread all the time and have great success.
Because college QBs from spread offenses are usually behind the curve on reading defenses and going through progressions. RG3 still has issues with that, and scouts are concerned that Mariotta will as well.
Russell Wilson is terrible at going through his progressions, but he overcomes it by scrambling until the defense breaks down.
Because the college spread and the nfl spread offense are different. You can get away with not having a good arm in college with the spread offense but in the nfl they’ll be exposed. Those guys you mentioned have what the college guys don’t. Arm strength and accuracy, they also are able to read defenses and put in a ton of prep, that’s why most starting qbs are first round picks, of course there are exceptions like Brady, Wilson and kaepernick but even colin struggles mightily with actually reading defenses and getting past his second read quickly. The college game is just slower and easier to manipulate with athleticism.
Right. So it’s not really the spread as much as the arm and football IQ. If you have a guy with a high football IQ and has a cannon for an arm, it doesn’t really matter if he plays spread in college or not. That was my point. This Petty guys supposedly has a cannon for an arm so he’s going to have a chance.
Petty needs to sit for at least two years for anyone that drafts him. Good leader on the field and all the requisite measurables are there. The single read spread offense QBs need time to acclimate themselves to multiple read systems.
Well, if the Packers think he has potential, that will kick him up a few notches on almost everyone else’s draft board.
Smoke & Mirrors. .. Now watch the ViQueens draft the guy in the 3rd round
Fuck the ViQueens