Cutler, Romo, Brees, Brady, Dalton, Ryan, Smith, Flacco, Newton.... just of the top of my head a litany of guys that were complete unknowns for the most part after a few years in the league.
Yet people are so quick to throw out college QBs playing the same or less amounts of time in a wildly fluctuating talent pool.
It goes the other way too- lionizing college players over a couple lucky years.
Too much weight is put on college performances- especially poor ones.
Whatever Green bay does to assess football IQ needs to be decoded and used throughout the league- because they have that shit figured out.
During the Favre years, they churned out backup after backup that found long term starting gigs.
They hit a perfect pick when looking for Favres replacement and developed him perfectly.
Then, when Rodgers went out for an extended period, they were decisive enough to cycle through several guys in several games before launching them all and bringing back flynn for the wins needed to make the playoffs.... No sitting on their hands and hoping the guys they had would click.
They saw immediately what they had, decided it sucked, and moved on it.
I am honestly of the opinion that Green Bay could find and develop a serviceable starter in every draft no matter how low their pick is- they are just that good at it.
Long way of saying that the sexy prolific picks very well might not be worth a shit, but there is likely a guy with a good mind sitting on the board somewhere with average physical skills that very well could be a long term solution if a team could look past irrelevant college results.
