There was no cleaner National Champion than the 2023 Michigan team. We won the title without a head coach our last 3 games, without a LB coach our last 6 games, and without our guy who tries stealing signs the last 10 games.
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I never thought he would be a top-round draft pick. My guess is he is picked in the 4th/5th round. As good as he was, especially in the playoffs, he struggled throwing the ball deep. I am a Browns fan and I hear prominent (as in radio hosts) Buckeye fans advocating for the Browns to take him, saying he fits Stefanski's system perfectly. I don't really see it, but I have rooted for worse.He has 5 throws on that video. Go to all the sites where they comment or rank about the QBs and it says the same thing.
His best case scenario is if Chip Kelly convinces Oakland to draft him early.
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You are trying to excuse McCord's season at Syracuse because he had subpar talent, yet now you're saying Howard's starts in an equally talentless KSU team matter so much? Typical hypocrisy from you. McCord wasn't guaranteed the starting job and he didn't want to have to compete again so he left. Again, this is very well known.
It wouldn't be shocking if McCord was drafted ahead of Howard. NFL GMs are pretty notoriously stupid around draft time. Brandon Weeden was picked ahead of Russell Wilson, Trubisky went ahead of Mahomes, Brock Purdy was the last QB taken in arguably the worst QB class of all-time, and let's not forget where Tom Brady fell to. Regardless, the play on the field matters most, and Howard was clearly better than McCord. He will also be a better pro.
He was always going to face an uphill battle considering he will be 24 at the start of his rookie season, and he's obviously not a perfect prospect. That said, there isn't a QB in this class that is going to be ready to come light it up week 1. I'd greatly prefer to see Cleveland take him later in the draft than waste the #2 pick on any other QB though. It's always stupid to focus on the combine alone to evaluate both QBs and WRs since they're working with guys they have no experience with.
Wait a minute -- of course it would be shocking to you if McCord is drafted ahead of Howard. Howard is a WAY better QB and he is mobile and he can make all the throws. McCord is terrible, he is a statue in the pocket and would have lost you multiple games because he wasn't good. Am I getting all your comments right?
What excuse am I making for McCord's season. The guy finished top 10 in the Heisman and threw for almost 5,000 yards.
It wouldn't be shocking at all. Are you saying NFL GMs get it right all the time? Trubisky was the right pick over Mahomes? Josh Rosen was the right pick over Lamar Jackson? Giovanni Carmazi was the right pick over Brady? I never said McCord was terrible, he's not. He wasn't good enough to be OSU's starter, which is why he left. It also says something that he was a 5* blue chip prospect in his class and Howard was the 882nd rated prospect in his class.
Let me refresh your memory:
There are plenty more, but you get the picture. For the sake of consistency, McCord had all of those elite teammates at OSU, and had two years learning the system and getting rapport with his teammates before becoming a starter, and Howard still outplayed him across the board in his one year at OSU coming in brand new. McCord had an elite talent advantage in nearly every game in 2023 and yet his numbers were worse than Howard's, despite also playing weaker defenses. The talent level at Syracuse is obviously lower, but his schedule in 2024 was embarrassingly weak. The ACC was so weak they didn't even have a single top 25 defense. He finished 10th in the Heisman due to volume alone.
There is nothing to make an excuse about for McCord's season. The guy put his team on his back and carried them to a 10 win season, something Syracuse had done ONCE in the past 20 years. Take McCord off Syracuse and they are mediocre. Take Howard off Ohio and nothing changes -- the next guy who steps in puts up monster numbers because you have the best skill position talent in CFB and are more talented than every team you face. (This last fact is why Michigan fan's love Ryan Day -- Ohio will always be more talented, but Day gets outcoached every time he faces Michigan)
Newsflash - Syracuse was mediocre with McCord. They got slaughtered by the 10th best team in their conference and shit the bed at home against the 16th best team in the conference (you read that right, 16th best team in the conference).
Newsflash -- Syracuse has signed 2 five star at 13 four star recruits total since 2000. To put it in perspective -- Ohio had 75 blue chip recruits on their 2024 team, which is 60 more than Syracuse has signed in just under 25 years. Syracuse is a mediocre program, which makes what McCord did so much more impressive. Syracuse won 10 games and finished ranked in the top 20 when the season ended. Prior to McCord, they had ONE season in the past 20 years where they finished ranked.
2024 Syracuse ranked 48th in the overall talent composite on 247. From 2020-2023, Kansas State ranked 68th, 70th, 69th, and 69th. Please, stop embarrassing yourself.
I said from the get go, McCord is a better QB than Howard. You said McCord was a terrible QB and even wanted to blame him for losing to Michigan.
Why are you ignoring the fact that you stated Howard didn't have less talent at KSU than McCord had at Syracuse, which I proved to be bullshit? Oh right, you're breaking out the emojis. It's your tell for when you know when you've been proven to be a retard.I said from the get go, McCord is a better QB than Howard. You said McCord was a terrible QB and even wanted to blame him for losing to Michigan.
Seems to be, the NFL agrees with me. After watching what McCord did at Syracuse and finishing top 10 in the Heisman with Howard nowhere in sight, CFB agrees with me. Then seeing the combine when Howard had to make all the throws he will need to make in the NFL -- the scouts agree with me. Once McCord is drafted ahead of Howard -- NFL GM's will agree with me.
But keep making up numbers -- it is highly entertaining. Next you are going to say 2024 Ohio would beat 2023 Michigan
