I really lashed out at some people when the JJ comparisons rained in after the Outback Bowl, but I'm starting to come around to that point of view. While I don't think that Anthony is half the idiot that JJ is, I've become awfully, awfully impatient because we suffered through 3 years of JJ spiking the ball into the ground. And yet again, there is a more promising option just chilling on the sidelines.
A big part of playing quarterback at the D1 or NFL level is intelligence as well as having the physical skills. At the NFL combine every player at the combine has to take the Wonderlic test. The Wonderlic is a basic IQ like test consisting of 50 multiple choices questions. Mainly word association, simple logic and basic math. They have 12 minutes to complete the 50 questions. The only NFL player ever to score a perfect 50 was former Cincinnati Bengals punter Pat McAnelly. He was a Harvard graduate. Matt Mauck scored a 30. Matt Flynn scored a 38. I couldn't find JJ's score but he did have the lowest rating overall of any player at the 2012 Combine. Here are some scores of past and present NFL QBs Ryan Fitzpatrick (48) Alex Smith (40) Eli Manning (39) Colin Kaepernick (38) Andrew Luck (37) Tony Romo (37) Aaron Rodgers (35) Tom Brady (33) JOHNNY MANZIEL (32) Peyton Manning (28) Russell Wilson (24) Robert Griffin III (24) Tim Tebow (22) Terry Bradshaw (16) Dan Marino (15) Of course neither AJ or Harris has taken the Wonderlic yet but while Harris seems to be more articulate and well spoken in interviews he has made a few glaring mental errors on the field. He needs to play more and get into the rhythm of the game instead of making a few handoffs in the 4th quarter of a blowout. He does seem to have better football instincts than Jennings at this point of their careers.
Dude, the bottom two guys on your list are Hall of Famers and the top two guys suck. I'm not sure what point you were trying to make.
Just food for thought. By the way Mo Claiborne scored a 4 and tied for the worst ever. I have taken the Wonderlic. Its ridiculously easy. I don't see how anybody with any grey matter at all could miss more than 5 or 6 questions.
But the championship didn't come in the same year Mauck put up those crappy opening numbers. He was pretty sharp early in '03.
So wouldn't you think a person of higher intelligence would grasp the complexities and learn to process that knowledge into action faster than a person of lower intelligence, assuming that they are equal physically?
Not necessarily. Terry Bradshaw could not spell CAT. If he could have scored higher than an 11 on his ACT he would have played at LSU. But his innate understanding of the game of football was impressive. He made his own calls and they were generally good ones.
You can't go wrong with: Hand the ball to Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier - Pass the ball to Lynn Swann and John Stallworth. And Bradshaw had natural physical gifts that were off the scale. In hight school he set a national record for throwing the javelin
I believe Mo Claiborne is dyslexic, and if so, a written, timed test is NOT an indication of that person's intellect. As a teacher and the mother of a dyslexic child, I can say that with absolute certainty.