“They” (The media) always wanna focus on the battle being about armstrength. Who the BW cares if you can throw the ball from endzone to endzone if you can hit a target and throw a catchable ball! So tired of that argument, if he gets the job done who cares? I love how I hear he moves the ball and has a knack for finding the open man, but gosh darn it doesn’t look pretty. I’m sorry but isn’t that the job of the QB to do exactly what he is good at? Didn’t know that it was important for a sports reporter to think you throw a pretty ball, it’s not a flipping beauty pageant. Well that’s my rant for the day lol

It will idiots. It will.

But, oh, so good!

That may take a while. Pre-Season could help answer some of those questions. I think the questions are legitimate. I don’t take them as personal indictments on Moore’s value as an upstanding athlete, guy, or student of the game. I don’t think Kellen takes it that way.

Try taking the same kind of question and applying it to a different player to test its sanity. Here are two examples I can think of right away…

Question: Can Warrick Dunn, in spite of his prolific college career at Florida St., take the pounding an NFL RB must handle at 5’8" and 185 pounds? Will he be able to run between the tackles consistently or will NFL defenses know it will be to the outside everytie he’s in the backfield?

Answer: Dunn went on to have a terrific career with the Bucs and had several Pro-Bowl and All Pro years.

Now take that very same question and replace Warrick Dunn’s name with former Oregon Duck LaMichael James. Do you feel the question is valid until proof is supplied?

Reporters, NFL teams, Coaches…these guys are asking perfectly rational questions. If anything is irrational, I’d say it’s the assumptions I’ve seen on this board. I’ll wait to see how Kellen does when he gets his chance, until then it’s a valid question that remains open and there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s not a prediction one way or the other on Kellen’s ability to play at the pro level and it’s certainly not an indictment on Moore’s value to CFB as a player and, one day hopefully, a coach. Jeeze Louise peeps. :D

with any efficiency…there are hundreds on examples. Moore is the latest.

“Montana graduated from Notre Dame with a degree in business administration and marketing. Although the NFL Combine was not formed until 1982, NFL scouts still evaluated potential draftees through the use of combines in 1979. Candidates were rated in a number of categories on a scale of one to nine, with one being the worst mark and nine being the best mark. The categories they used were contingent on the position that the athlete played.

Despite his performance on the field, Montana was not rated highly by most scouts. At one combine, Montana rated out as six-and-a-half overall with a six in arm strength, used to judge how hard and how far a prospect could throw the ball. By comparison, Jack Thompson of Washington State rated an eight, the highest grade among eligible quarterbacks.

In the 1979 NFL Draft, the San Francisco 49ers selected Montana at the end of the third round with the 82nd overall pick. Montana was the fourth quarterback taken, behind Thompson, Phil Simms, and Steve Fuller, all selected in the first round.

Montana earned the nickname “Joe Cool” for his ability to stay calm at key moments, and “Comeback Kid” for his history of rallying his teams from late-game deficits. His teammates in San Francisco called him “Bird Legs” due to his very thin legs and small calves."

We all know the rest of the story….

Comes 2012 and another possible Legend in a similar mold….Kellen (on the) Moore