Lamar ist raw no doubt. But it was right to draft him, we might have gotten a franchise QB at the end of the 1st round. That doesn't happen very often. At some point we had to get a QB. It's better you'd draft them in advance.
Lamar’s throwing motion is not time consuming. You want to see a time consuming motion look no further than Sam Darnold. He has a baseball pitchers throwing motion. Wonderlic has nothing to do with how good the QB is going to be. You can have Ryan Fitzpatrick scoring almost perfect on it or you can have Jim Kelly and Steve McNair with awful scores. The fact that Lamar Jackson didn’t have an agent has a lot to do with his wonderlic score. I’m sure an agent with expierence with Qbs would’ve shown him how to prepare for the wonderlic.
Besides, his base isn't always narrow. Even his college tape shows improvement in that aspect, the main thing to work on is zillions of repetitions, until the proper stance becomes natural.
Actually it’s a statistical fact that the overwhelming percentage of NFL starting QBs have higher Wonderlic scores. Having a high score doesn’t guarantee success, but a low score has historically spelled failure. Not saying it’s impossible, but the statistical odds are against him.
An agent would've clearly helped Lamar for the wonderlic. You can be an intelligent guy, but you have to be prepared for the format of the exam.
Whatever you want to think, but there’s really nothing special about the format of the test. It’s been used throughout the employment world since the 1930s to measure the abilities of entry level employees to learn and solve problems. As with any test I’m sure there’s a margin for error, but there’s no factual way to rationalize a score of 13 is anything but below average.
his release is very fast. not time consuming at all.
Winding up takes time. If he can develop a more conventional release he will be smoother and quicker. And as an NFL QB he’s not going to be running the ball a third of his plays in a game as he did in college. It’s a concern how that affects his passing and decision making abilities.
And some of the highest scorers on the wonderlic were downright awful qbs. It asbolsutely means nothing. All it means is he isn’t good at standardized tests.
Yes, high scores mean nothing, but low scores mean everything. It just a fact, not an opinion.
I would never use the wonderlic as a gage for anything and as mentioned earlier, if he had an agent, he would have been more prepared for the exam.
Please don't forget Dan Marino who had a pathetic score as well that went on to be quite adept at reading defenses.
Yep, there’s always a chance, but not much of one. Marino(16), Bradshaw(16), Kelly(15), McNabb(15). A few guys out of several hundred, not the best odds.
lol.......Did you even read the article? If so you’re ignoring facts. And the test questions are very basic, there’s really nothing to prepare for, an agent would be of no help. If you wanted to know the format or do a practice exam a simple google search gives you that.
Jeff George sucked. just sayin’ lol
