Max Duggan is Jerry's guy at the Senior Bowl

Zordon said:
Last time we drafted a farm boy at QB...just sayin'.

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Lol Aikman is from west Covina, he ain't no farm boy. His family sent him to Oklahoma for football
 
exciter said:
They got smashed by the media on every pick through the 5th except for the Tolbert pick and that was just one analyst because he had Tolbert ranked 88th best player... he was 88th pick. I still remember reading one guy screaming we should have taken the A%M TE that ran a 5.1 40 (combine) and spent the season on the Patriots practice squad over Ferguson!!!!
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Yeah you are right they hater that draft. A lot of those guys produced for us this year.
 
Never thought much of Jerry's talent evaluation, but in this case he's right. If you've been watching any of the Senior Bowl practices - and I watched them all - Duggan's the best QB there, and it's not close. Disclaimer: I'm a TCU alum, but I'm also a retired sportswriter and don't have a problem setting biases aside. I've watched every college game Duggan's played, and I'll be the first to say he drives you nuts. I told a pal and fellow alum at the end of last year that I thought it was time to give up on him as a starter and use him the way the Saints use Taysom Hill. But I also said it would be a shame, because the kid is so talented and the intangibles are so high that if he could ever raise his completion percentage to anything close to 65% he'd be a Heisman candidate. That happened, and he was. What people have to understand is that Gary Patterson didn't give a damn about offense and the kid never got any decent instruction until this year. His QB coach was graduate assistant Kenny Hill until Dykes took over and Garrett Riley started whispering in his ear. The raw material is there. Duggan was a 4-star recruit pursued by every major program in the country -- Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame, you name it -- and was considered the best QB prospect to come out of Iowa in 30 years. He's got an above average arm with touch on the long ball and the ability to throw off-platform, runs a sub 4.6 (and that's FAST for a QB), is tough as nails and is a relentless competitor. But his mechanics are still a mess for all the reasons noted above. However, he's a coach's kid and will soak up good coaching like a sponge. If he's there from the third round on and there's no other crying need ready to be picked then he's well worth drafting and developing. Give him 2-3 years of good coaching, let him work off-season with a QB guru like Jordan Palmer, and there's a real chance that you'll have something really special down the line; not just a career backup.
 
MReed53 said:
Never thought much of Jerry's talent evaluation, but in this case he's right. If you've been watching any of the Senior Bowl practices - and I watched them all - Duggan's the best QB there, and it's not close. Disclaimer: I'm a TCU alum, but I'm also a retired sportswriter and don't have a problem setting biases aside. I've watched every college game Duggan's played, and I'll be the first to say he drives you nuts. I told a pal and fellow alum at the end of last year that I thought it was time to give up on him as a starter and use him the way the Saints use Taysom Hill. But I also said it would be a shame, because the kid is so talented and the intangibles are so high that if he could ever raise his completion percentage to anything close to 65% he'd be a Heisman candidate. That happened, and he was. What people have to understand is that Gary Patterson didn't give a damn about offense and the kid never got any decent instruction until this year. His QB coach was graduate assistant Kenny Hill until Dykes took over and Garrett Riley started whispering in his ear. The raw material is there. Duggan was a 4-star recruit pursued by every major program in the country -- Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame, you name it -- and was considered the best QB prospect to come out of Iowa in 30 years. He's got an above average arm with touch on the long ball and the ability to throw off-platform, runs a sub 4.6 (and that's FAST for a QB), is tough as nails and is a relentless competitor. But his mechanics are still a mess for all the reasons noted above. However, he's a coach's kid and will soak up good coaching like a sponge. If he's there from the third round on and there's no other crying need ready to be picked then he's well worth drafting and developing. Give him 2-3 years of good coaching, let him work off-season with a QB guru like Jordan Palmer, and there's a real chance that you'll have something really special down the line; not just a career backup.
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Thought I read he had health issues?
 
RS12 said:
Thought I read he had health issues?
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He had the heart ailment that required surgery before last year's season (congenital and discovered during a Covid test). Operation was successful, he played all but the first half of the first game that year, and didn't miss a single game this year despite running over linebackers in every game. That issue is considered a closed book.
 
RS12 said:
Thought I read he had health issues?
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Correction -- make that surgery prior to the 2020 season. So it's even farther in the rearview than I remembered. Patterson held him out of the first half of the first game that year and they fell behind something like 28-0. He started the second half and came within a point or two of bringing them all the way back. Last year he played the second half of the season on a broken foot and still didn't miss a start. Obviously healed and didn't affect his play this year.
 
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ChronicCowboy said:
Do we have a problem with accurate quarterbacks? Duggan wasn’t even a pro prospect until this season.

Why do we treat the QB position the way we treat kicker when it relates to high draft picks? Take a QB somewhere in the first three rounds. Duggan is a day 3 pick.
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Dude balled out in the Big 12 Championship Game, did everything he could to try to will his team to victory.

If you missed it, go watch a replay on Youtube................it was an amazing performance, even though they ended up losing the game.
 
Yep. Still can't believe Dykes took the ball out of his hands in OT. No way that kid was going to be denied. Not the first time Duggan's done something like that, either. Kid's got the heart of a lion. If there was a scale for "will to win," he'd be off the charts.
 
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