Thoughts on Stanford vs Notre Dame Game.

Clausen is overrated, I agree. Good thing the Browns are probably gonna pick him :D

I couldn’t agree more; I’ve been actively advocating for Jake Locker since the start of November and I really believe this kid will turn out to be the best QB of them all. Unfortunately, we’d better hope that a team like the Rams rather want, say, Jimmy Clausen over him and that the Browns don’t have the patience to deal with another first-round QB after Quinn. We’ll see

Really? I thought Clausen was awesome.

I’ll be blunt. I think the argument that Clausen is overhyped because he plays for Notre Dame is completely crazy and doesn’t make any sense at all. Did I just wake up and it’s 1990 when people still thought Notre Dame was any good? What hype? Florida gets tons of hype, Texas gets tons of hype, Oklahoma gets tons of hype, aren’t all those QBs getting more school based hype than Clausen and Notre Dame? Don’t more people hate Notre Dame (and I’ll guess you’re one of them), then think that they’re a team loaded with talent? This is the internet age where every decent team plays 5 games on some ESPN channel, every player gets dissected by hundreds of wanna be internet scouts and then those dissections get read by a thousand people each. These aren’t the days where everybody watches and cheers for Notre Dame because they always play on NBC and that’s the only game that’s on. The huge majority of Notre Dame fans are in their 40s or older because of that whole NBC thing and it doesn’t seem like there are many Notre Dame fans hanging around on this Bills blog. Nobody cares that Jimmy Clausen plays at Notre Dame.

I find it to be humorous that the people who don’t like Clausen all use Notre Dame as a reason why and then every person who does think highly of him never mentions Notre Dame as a reason. Hmmmm……

I also love the argument that Clausen is hyped because he plays at Notre Dame and he’s also surrounded by this amazing talent. Wouldn’t logic dictate that the surrounding talent is also hyped because they play at Notre Dame? Or that none of them are particularly overhyped at all?

Here’s the argument I always use: the NFL doesn’t overhype players because of schools. If we go back and look at all the players drafted out of Notre Dame over the last five or ten years, not only do you see very few overrated players, it reads like a list of the NFLs best franchises finding steals in the middle rounds. The NFL doesn’t overhype Notre Dame guys and the NFL thinks (more like will think) that Jimmy Clausen is a top five pick.

And Brady Quinn is about as relevant to the discussion about Clausen as Vince Young is when we’re talking about Colt McCoy. He’s the QB who played before him and it doesn’t mean anything. People compared Aaron Rodgers to Kyle Boller because they played back to back at Cal.

was about as gutsy as the Fred Jackson throw or the Moorman throw to a DL, Ryan Denney.

If we are not going to go with Edwards then we have to make the case that whoever we draft is a significant improvement over Edwards and has a higher ceiling. Edwards will be fine as a solid NFL QB under the right circumstances. The main problems Edwards detractors have is his conservatism (which is a matter of style not talent), his deep ball, and short slants. Unless a new young QB can definitively show that they can throw a beautiful slant and show zip and touch on the deep ball, they aren’t a better option than Edwards.

I like Clausen but his deep balls are not even close to good strength. Any NFL caliber DB will eat his arm for lunch. Also, he did not seem accurate on the deep balls.

Harbaugh would be a good NFL coach like Cohwer. One thing to remember about Cowher is that he had some up and down years, especially a string of down years. But he had a patient owner and fan base. One thing we’ve shown that we are not is patient. If Harbaugh cannot get it done in three years, he would be gone the way of Mularkey and Philips.

I do have to say, I will take Gerhart any day. I say we draft him and put him in the FB position so that we have a true offensive threat to run or catch the ball but who can also block and that’ll make some things happen.

My only concern is I do not think there is alot of upside with him. I think talent wise he has already peekd. He has been coached from a young age by some QB guru on the west coast, then was coached by Weis who is one of the best QB coaches. normally, that is a good thing. In this case, I just have a gut feeling that we are seeing the peek of Clausen. Now anyone who has read any of my posts know I am a huge Locker and Bradford fan. Saying that, I was extremely impressed by Tony Pike yesterday. His poise in the pocket, his arm strength(much stronger than I thought), his timing on his throws, and his leadership were great. We could definitely get him in the second round. hat would give us the abilitly to get a top ten stud on one of the lines.

I know Buffalo doesnt need him but he reminds me of Lee Evans. Regardless of when he gets drafted i think he will be a stud in the league.

What game were you watching last night? Clausen was outstanding as usual. If anything, there is a backlash against Notre Dame in the press and to call Clausen “overrated” based on the game last night is absolutely asinine. Buffalo would be lucky to get such a prospect at a need position.

Why do his receivers always have to slow up to make a play on the ball rather than clausen hitting them in stride?

The guy has one good season and all of the sudden he is not only the best college coach available but a sure-fire NFL coaching dynamo? Seems odd to me