2013 NFL Season

Green Bay plays SF and Washington back to back to open the season. Sounds like a smart pickup to get a read option simulator into camp and practice. As good as Rodgers is...he's not exactly good practice for what they're going to see with Kaepernick and Griffin.

I really like signings like this, tbh. To me it's a lot like the Tebow situation in New England. Young knows he's not there to compete or even think about competing with Aaron Rodgers. Same with Tebow and Brady...there is literally no pressure on these guys because you'd have to be brain damaged to believe that there will ever be a QB controversy in either situation. Just the chance to come in and contribute and maybe revive your career a bit in the eyes of the other clubs.

Robert Baratheon_sl said:

Gyou'd have to be brain damaged to believe that there will ever be a QB controversy in either situation.

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Remember when Vince Young scored a 6 on his first Wonderlic test take?




Yeah. This guy is pretty sure he'll be starting before long.

Grimmlokk_sl said:

Remember when Vince Young scored a 6 on his first Wonderlic test take?




Yeah. This guy is pretty sure he'll be starting before long.

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I don't know about VY personally but I know some players have literally filled out their name answered a couple questions, quit and turned in the test because it means absolutely jack fucking shit and hasn't stopped anyone from being drafted ever. Now if teams stopped drafting people who scored low on this test (good fucking luck) maybe I might consider the wonderlic to be something that you could base someones intelligence off of. No consequences and apathetic teams/athletes means you can't tell if they tried or like some people did exactly what I mentioned.

BurnemWizfyre_sl said:

I don't know about VY personally but I know some players have literally filled out their name answered a couple questions, quit and turned in the test because it means absolutely jack fucking shit and hasn't stopped anyone from being drafted ever.

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He did do a re-test.

Scored a 14. Just over half the average for QB's.

But really, a 6 point Wonderlic is just a fun way to say he's retarded.

Grimmlokk_sl said:

He did do a re-test.

Scored a 14. Just over half the average for QB's.

But really, a 6 point Wonderlic is just a fun way to say he's retarded.

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If he did a re-test then yeah ok, it just doesn't apply in all cases that a low wonderlic means retarded.

Also Dez Bryant scored a 6 and fucking tried, maybe that's why it took him 2 and a half years to understand the playbook. I think this should be used in the suit against the NCAA as proof that they don't even give student athletes a college education.

It's possible that GB will use VY for defensive practice, but I truly think that the larger part of it is just that the terrible tandem of Graham Harrell and BJ Coleman scares no one. (Especially since the OL will be patchwork again, and Rodgers won't by lucky forever.) If VY is better, one of the two gets the boot; if he's not, VY gets dropped at the final roster cuts.

I still don't know why GB didn't pick up a QB prospect in the fourth round or so.

Wombat_sl said:

I still don't know why GB didn't pick up a QB prospect in the fourth round or so.

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They did. He hurt his knee and they waived him.

Gaige_sl said:

They did. He hurt his knee and they waived him.

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Nah, Matt Brown was undrafted.
(For that matter, Coleman was 7th round in 2012, Harrell was undrafted.)

Probably because they are still earlier in Rodger's career. They weren't planning to see the starting LT go out for the year prior to the first preseason game, nor are they actively planning to get Rodgers hurt by fielding the worst line they can. The articles make it clear they are trying to do something with the line to protect their QB. Plus, what QB would you have them pick and why would it have been a better choice than whoever else they got?

Elurin_sl said:

I feel like Dallas fans are the only ones who ever use this argument about players blowing off the Wonderlic. I don't know why you feel the need to white knight retarded people. It's ok if Dez Bryant is an idiot. He's obviously talented. I could give a shit if some Redskins player is a functional retard. I don't watch football for the intelligence of the players. I watch it because it's modern day gladiators. It's why I could give a shit about players on steroids.

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All Dallas fans disregard the Wonderlic based on your sample size of 1. It hasn't really translated to anything meaningful on the field. If you look at wonderlic scores from top players, they're all over the place. Dan Marino had a terrible score and was one of the greatest players of all time at a position that takes by far the most intelligence

Famm_sl said:

Probably because they are still earlier in Rodger's career. They weren't planning to see the starting LT go out for the year prior to the first preseason game, nor are they actively planning to get Rodgers hurt by fielding the worst line they can. The articles make it clear they are trying to do something with the line to protect their QB. Plus, what QB would you have them pick and why would it have been a better choice than whoever else they got?

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You can't really just pull your qb for the season because you don't have a great O-line. But you also have to take what you get when it comes to backup qb. Hopefully for the Packers, there being absolutely 0 chance for Young to take the starting spot and working with one of the greats might help him get to "slightly above terrible"

Elurin_sl said:

I feel like Dallas fans are the only ones who ever use this argument about players blowing off the Wonderlic. I don't know why you feel the need to white knight retarded people. It's ok if Dez Bryant is an idiot. He's obviously talented. I could give a shit if some Redskins player is a functional retard. I don't watch football for the intelligence of the players. I watch it because it's modern day gladiators. It's why I could give a shit about players on steroids.

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Both Dez and Mo Claiborne (who was the player who supposedly wrote his name and then blew it off) are dumb as rocks but those positions are the ones where the Wonderlic has obviously never mattered.

Now QB and Center, you should be worried.

Archie has quite the pimp hand.

So BB today referred to Amendola's training camp play so far is "dependable"

So obviously BB wasn't referring to his durability, but the word choice was funny. Amendola has missed like 15-20 games in 3 years.

Wes Welker missed 3 games in 6 years... how is that even possible.

New Season of Hard Knocks starts tonight!