If You Were Starting an NFL Team From Scratch Which QB Would You Pick?
Just something I thought about yesterday while watching Cam Newton completely grandson the entire Redskins defense. If you were picking players for an NFL team and had the chance to select any current quarterback, who would you choose?
I know most of the Bostonians wanna say Brady, but Brady is old as shit and you don’t wanna have to draft another QB in 2 years. Aaron Rodgers SHOULD be the consensus pick as he’s done everything in the world to earn it, but personally I gotta go Cam. This motherfucker is ridiculous. If football was a mental handicap Killa Cam would be full retard. I’m not sure if ya’ll got the Red Zone Channel like I do to be able to see this dude dominate opposing defenses every week with a shitty team, no RBs, and only one receiver, but every Sunday my mind is blown. I’d trade Vick for Newton straight up right now, if only for the fact that Vick is in his 30′s and Cam is like 17. Also, don’t forget that redheaded Andy Daulton’s BENGALS are 4-2. Also: Brees, Rivers, Manning, Vick, Roethlisberger, Ryan, Flacco, Stafford, Freeman, LUCK…lots to choose from.
Oh, and if anybody says Tebow do everyone a favor and hurt yourself.
Cam is gonna be good until he tries to dive for the endzone one too many times and fucking dies…you need a solid pocket passer with a little mobility…Rodgers is the play
Cam brings fans to the stadium. id rather watch him anyday then Rodgers. spot on
Rodgers by a mile. The best QB in the game now and still young
For a single game or season, still Brady. Starting a franchise, Rodgers of course. Respect to Cam’s abilities, but defenses always figure out how to at least manage mobile QBs after a few years.
Besides Steve Young has any scrambling QB ever been great? Fun to watch, sure. Can even get you to the playoffs. But QBs who base a lot of their game on running almost never seem to be able to have long term success. How’s Vince Young doing?
Cannot agree with Cam, until he plays a couple seasons. The man is off to an awesome start, but its too soon to call him the Best.
Have to take Rodgers
The fact that you even consider Cam over Rodgers shows that you are a fuckin moron.
What, Rodgers has the all-time completion % and I think QB (which means squat) rating. And sadly enough those things win games and out running line backers is only fun to watch.
I’m calling it right now everybody take a look at his numbers from his Heisman campaign, we’re he ran train on the entire SEC. He made some supposedly untouchable SEC defenses look stupid and its only a matter of time till he duplicates those numbers in the NFL. Just wait there is going to be a year were he passes for over 3,500 30+TDs fewer than 10 INTs, 1,200 rush yard and 10+ rushing TDs. Dude is a freak and thats not about to change. Newton over Rodgers any day
Andrew Luck for real long term or Aaron Rodgers for the next 5 years. Rodgers does manage to take a lot of hits and he turns 28 soon.
As a Pats (and Brady) fan, I have to go with Rodgers. Guy seems like he’s still on the upswing. I really like Newton, and what he’s done so far is pretty unbelievable, but he makes too many plays with his legs. He is a torn ACL waiting to happen.
Yeah let’s pick Andrew Luck who hasn’t played an NFL down yet.
Another blog where you say nothing funny and prove that you don’t know shit about sports…how do you still have a job?
Luck is the best QB prospect in 30 years and is nearly as good an athlete as Newton. Of course he is white so nobody will say that.
Randall Cunningham back in the day was awesome. If anyone picks anyone but Rodgers they should hurt themselves. That dude is ridiculous. And this is coming from a guy that would let Brady prima nocte my future wife and wouldn’t even ask him to wear a condom.
Guess what, I know another black running back who was the end all be all for mobile QB’s too, I man this guy was probably the fastest player on the field and he was behind center! Shit, I mean this guy was so damn good he even managed to trick a team into paying him $100 million after rotting for nearly 2 years in prison for executing dogs. Well, that idiot broke his leg once doing his damn thang, and he also has about 3 concussions this year, gets crushed on the regular by D-ends, and will never win a superbowl. So, I’m going w/ Rodgers without even thinking twice about it.
Michael Bishop all day
Tebow…comeback history
Gotta go with Favre. STill the best. I would build my franchise around him.
give me brady everyday and twice on sundays and mondays
Rodgers is by far the best QB in the league. Personally I would never build a team around a QB like Newton or Vick, having a running QB doesn’t make up for the fact that you have shitty running backs. Run-first QB’s are pointless and only make sense if you have no WR’s to begin with. Steve Smith is having a good year because hes a beast, if Cam was good there would be at least a couple other receivers with god numbers, but there aren’t. Meanwhile Rodgers connects with 10 different receivers a night.
Besides its a passing league now anyway, give me an accurate/strong passer, a ton of capable receivers, and a couple decent backs; thats what wins superbowls (e.g. Packers, Saints, Patriots).
Tom Brady, Drew Brees or Aaron Rodgers. Everyone else is on the outside looking in.
Great post! I’m not 100% who I would choose but it’d be between Curtis Painter and Charlie Whitehurst.
^ apparently this guy has never heard of Tom Brady if he thinks Rodgers is by far the best QB in the NFL
@RC Cola — Andrew Luck? Seriously idiot?
What if Newton was white? Would you still have picked him?
Cam is going to go airborn at the goal line, like he did Sunday, and get fucking paralyzed by a linebacker. If im his coach, Im telling him to never do that shit again.
Rodgers IS the best QB in the NFL. I am a Vikings fan. Rodgers>Brady>Cam Newton by a mile.
@tornopen- Why not? I was basically saying young rookie level QB by the way (real long term). He would have been #1 in this year’s draft over Cam and teams are salivating over him right now. Didn’t hear anybody talking about tanking to get Cam last year. Rodgers would be the pick right now for established QB’s who are still young enough to build a franchise around, but for a long term 15 year guy Luck is the pick.
Cant go anyone other than rodgers. Honestly i think cam newton is overhyped big time. Hell be good, but when the dust settles, i see him more along the lines of a big ben/josh freeman type-great players but not the elite qbs. When you look past his 400 yd games and big runs you notice hes not pinpoint accurate like rodgers. Sure he will only get better but why pass on a proven guy in rodgers? All the alltime greats are pure passers (montana, marino, brady, manning)
The Andrew Luck pick really makes me laugh. Is Ryan Leaf still available? Anywho, Rodgers all day long. He has the arm, the accuracy, the escapability, all the intangibles, and a ring. If this question was asked 3 years ago, then answer would have to be Tom Brady.
Rodgers was second in QB rushing yards last season…so, I think that makes him a mobile QB as well. Newton is off to a nice start, but any pick other than Rodgers is moronic.
I agree with everyone making statements about not trusting a running QB….and I am not really a Cam Newton fan… BUT… Have any of you dipshits noticed that he is 4th in the League in total passing yards?
Cam wins a Lombardi in the next 5 years. Guaranteed.
Cam = 8 TD’s 9 ints….Rodgers 20 TDs, 3 ints…ill take Rodgers
and brady, brees, rivers, schaub, stafford
nah as a Pats fan I concede that the right choice is Rodgers. younger, more mobile, throws well too. For 1 season i’d still say brady, but for a new franchise its rodgers
brady hands down. idc if hes 33.
Rohan Davey
Rodgers and it isn’t close
It’s a passing league and any QB that rely’s on running too much will get hurt eventually. Without a doubt. That being said I think Newton does have the ability to learn to be a pocket passer and get rid of ball quickly. That’s what got P. Manning and Brady rings and so many wins in this league. Rodgers is pick now because of age but it would be inr=teresting to see what other QB’s would do in the GB offense. Team is stacked with talent and coached very well. Ah fuck it, I’ll take Vick.
@RC cola. you are a moron and thats an insult to morons everywhere. Just cuz he is a decent prospect and is almost guaranteed to be the 1st overall pick next draft MEANS NOTHING! how many 1st overall picks have become a bust. I am not saying Andrew Luck will be but it could easily happen and so you cannot say he is the guy to start a franchise with. I am as big of a pats fan as there is but the answer right now is aaron rodgers. brady is close but he is on the decline in his career. Rodgers has many more years as an amazing QB
bro, that is the most ridiculous thing ive ever heard, im from boston, loyal pats fan to the death, but rodgers is the guy, right now at least, he’s young but also, his QB rating is like 50 points higher than cams, literally
this is a ridiculous question
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