Cactus Jack wrote:bmurph128 wrote:Actually, with Wilson it definitely makes a big difference.
He does a good job of getting deeper drops, but he bails out of the pocket too soon quite a bit.
I don't think it matters THAT much, but Brady and Manning are arguably the best two QBs to ever play....so there's that.
On the flip side Favre, Young, Montana - and there are a slew of other QBs that are not "prototype" height.
Wilson is the only one that it actually holds back of that group IMO, which is why I don't consider him to be a top flight QB.
You'll come around eventually.
He's a really good player - from that perspective I have come around lol.
People really are just doing him a disservice when they say he's a top 5 QB though. Just as an example: Drew Brees carried his offense for years in New Orleans without a top flight RB, top WRs or a top OL - often stuck on mediocrity because of their defense, which Brees had no control over.
Those guys all were made to look better than they were - but I would be hard pressed to even name the LTs that blocked for Brees. He did have some solid interior OL, but he made Marques Colston into a household name, and had Jimmy Graham looking infinitely better than he did in Seattle. The best RB that Brees has had was probably Ingram (until Kamara), who was considered a first round bust for years.
Now, this comparison is not fair to Wilson because Brees is light years better than him - but then that's kind of my point. When people talk about the top QBs, I've seen a lot of Rodgers/Brady/Brees/Wilson - that's insane to me, unless you're acknowledging that there's a big gap there between 3 and 4.
Jared Goff IMO was the extreme example of what I'm talking about last year: he had a season statistically that when you look at it, was one of the best in the NFL. But I wouldn't even have him cracking the top 10 yet. All about circumstances.
