BTB: Bruce Arians’ elite NFL quarterback looks an awful lot like Dak Prescott

[jday]

Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians is currently promoting his new book “The Quarterback Whisperer: How to Build an Elite NFL Quarterback” (co-authored with Lars Anderson). It is an entertaining and educational read from a coach who was instrumental in the careers of Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck, Ben Roethlisberger, and Carson Palmer (his current QB). Along with some very insightful observations about the life of a football coach and the players they coach and develop, it goes into some detail about just what he believes are the traits that make a top NFL QB. If you are a Dallas Cowboys fan, it is also very encouraging, because Dak Prescott seems to check all the boxes. And it also seems to validate the approach Dallas, including head coach Jason Garrett, took with Prescott during his incredible rookie season.

Early in the book, he lays out a basic explanation of how some teams get it right in trying to find that all important franchise quarterback while others fail miserably.

Read the rest: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/201...ke-dak-prescott-dallas-cowboys-peyton-manning

 

[calicowboy54]

Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians is currently promoting his new book “The Quarterback Whisperer: How to Build an Elite NFL Quarterback” (co-authored with Lars Anderson). It is an entertaining and educational read from a coach who was instrumental in the careers of Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck, Ben Roethlisberger, and Carson Palmer (his current QB). Along with some very insightful observations about the life of a football coach and the players they coach and develop, it goes into some detail about just what he believes are the traits that make a top NFL QB. If you are a Dallas Cowboys fan, it is also very encouraging, because Dak Prescott seems to check all the boxes. And it also seems to validate the approach Dallas, including head coach Jason Garrett, took with Prescott during his incredible rookie season.

Early in the book, he lays out a basic explanation of how some teams get it right in trying to find that all important franchise quarterback while others fail miserably.

Read the rest: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/201...ke-dak-prescott-dallas-cowboys-peyton-manning

Ok then if this is right we really lucked out, because we were going after Connor whats his face and party on Memphis before we landed Dak.

 

[ShiningStar]

Ok then if this is right we really lucked out, because we were going after Connor whats his face and party on Memphis before we landed Dak.

Paxton Lynch was a target of ours as well I believe

 

[jday]

Ok then if this is right we really lucked out, because we were going after Connor whats his face and party on Memphis before we landed Dak.

We went after both Paxton Lynch in the first and Connor Cook a little later and were leap-frogged by the Broncos then the Raiders respectively. So yeah, very lucky.

 

[Typhus]

No team saw it, the guy had never taken a snap under center his entire college career.
Sometimes the sun shines on an old dogs ***.
I'm just happy he wears a star on his helmet,, doesn't matter how.

 

[AsthmaField]

Arians is the man.

 

[jday]

Arians is the man.

He hit the nail on the head when he said, "What matters more than arm strength and other physical tools is what's happening between the QB's ears." This is a 100 year old game and finally someone get's it. I honestly have no idea why it took so long.

 

[sean10mm]

He hit the nail on the head when he said, "What matters more than arm strength and other physical tools is what's happening between the QB's ears." This is a 100 year old game and finally someone get's it. I honestly have no idea why it took so long.

The problem is that teams are super bad at measuring a quarterback's mental aptitude for the pro game. In 2000 Brady was an A+ prospect in that area, and the entire league missed it. And he was a winner at a major college program, it's not like he played at South Hudson Institute of Technology or something. Nobody saw it in Kurt Warner either. Joe Montana was taken at the end of the 3rd round, so it's not like anyone had a clue in the past and the league just lost the script. Nobody could really tell that Peyton Manning was infinitely better than Ryan Leaf when they were drafted, and the difference was 100% mental.

It's 2017 and we're really not any better at it.

If you pick a guy based on a book full of numbers you measured, you can always say you took every precaution and were just unlucky. If you pick a guy based on hard to measure things and he craps out, you just look like an *** and get fired. I think that's the trap a lot of GMs and scouts fall into.

 

[jday]

The problem is that teams are super bad at measuring a quarterback's mental aptitude for the pro game. In 2000 Brady was an A+ prospect in that area, and the entire league missed it. And he was a winner at a major college program, it's not like he played at South Hudson Institute of Technology or something. Nobody saw it in Kurt Warner either. Joe Montana was taken at the end of the 3rd round, so it's not like anyone had a clue in the past and the league just lost the script. Nobody could really tell that Peyton Manning was infinitely better than Ryan Leaf when they were drafted, and the difference was 100% mental.

It's 2017 and we're really not any better at it.

If you pick a guy based on a book full of numbers you measured, you can always say you took every precaution and were just unlucky. If you pick a guy based on hard to measure things and he craps out, you just look like an *** and get fired. I think that's the trap a lot of GMs and scouts fall into.

That's a really good point. Because at the end of the day, these GM's and Scouting departments are staking millions and their job on guys they pick. Honestly, I'm not sure what the remedy is, but I do think either the Head Coach, the GM or both probably need to take more time to get to know these guys...especially when looking for their franchise QB. If you caught my RiDakulous post (http://cowboyszone.com/threads/ridakulous.379312/), there were things that should have stood out more that ultimately didn't. Rather or not that info was readily available before draft day is debatable but I suspect it was.

The problem is as a Head Coach you have to be on the look out for hyperbole. Every head coach in college probably talks their guys up a bit; so how does a coach/scout in the NFL differentiate between what is embellishment and what is truth?

 

[DFWJC]

We went after both Paxton Lynch in the first and Connor Cook a little later and were leap-frogged by the Broncos then the Raiders respectively. So yeah, very lucky.

Zero doubt about that.
Dak was Dallas' 5th or 6th favorite QB.

Just glad they pulled the trigger at the of the 4th

 

[ShiningStar]

Zero doubt about that.
Dak was Dallas' 5th or 6th favorite QB.

Just glad they pulled the trigger at the of the 4th

which just proves the combine is not a science.

 

[DFWJC]

which just proves the combine is not a science.

Yep
See Brady, Wilson, Romo as well

I think the Pats may have found good value late in the draft at QB as well last year. Time will tell.

 

[Bigdog]

I think I read an article where Peyton Manning described what he thought makes a good qb. He said ( for what I could remember):
Intelligence (able to read defenses)
Poise under pressure
Accuracy (who cares if you can throw a ball 70 yds from your knees; reference to Kyle Boller).
Pocket Prescence

There was three more but I can't remember.

 

[Melonfeud]

Arians is the man.

I heard on the radio the other morning he had something removed surgically like a small tumor on his liver (I can't remember exactly)
Godspeed, Bruce.

 

[RS12]

If I were an NFL player, he is one of the coaches I'd most want to play for. No pretentious BS, he just lets it all hang out.

 

[DFWJC]

If I were an NFL player, he is one of the coaches I'd most want to play for. No pretentious BS, he just lets it all hang out.

Carson Palmer would've retired already, but he's having to much fun playing for Arians.