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Originally Posted by Mattyk
23 teams passed on Rodgers, a lot of teams are kicking themselves over that.
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Exactly. Noone knows how a player will turn out. You have to draft based on skill set, personality, and not a whole hell of alot more. Its implementing that QB and creating the environment for him to thrive in which is the hardest part. Noone knows the finality of drafting a certain player, even 5 years after the draft pick, because different teams, different circumstances and different systems and coaches each affect different players in different ways, a la Ryan Leaf could have thrived if say he was drafted by the Dolphins instead of the Chargers, and if Manning was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons instead of the Colts, he could have been a bust. In short, you could say that its mainly the organization and the coaches that make or break a player, in one sense.
That being said, I feel comfortable handing RG3 over to this group of coaches. If Kyle can do what he did in Houston with Schaub, then he should be able to at least replicate it with a specimen such as RG3 in theory. Hopefully, Hankerson and Garcon will become top notch players at their positions in order to help that progress.