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I could see how some people could use anti-semitism against Rosen, but I actually didn't make the connection for quite some time that he's even Jewish (I guess the name should have given it away, but I wasn't even putting two and two together; sometimes I'm not very bright). Maybe I'm wrong, but he gives off vibes of having a weird, passive aggressive attitude. I've never come away from reading one of his interviews without feeling uneasy about him as the face of the franchise. I could be dead wrong, but the fact that so many other people have picked up on it makes me think it's more than anti-semitism.
I disliked Rosen's game after watching him multiple times in college -- he's a very good pocket passer, but not in the way that Brady is, because Brady can move and doesn't panic. Rosen is not great in the face of pressure. He processes too slowly. Additionally, he just had a terrible rookie year by any metric, so I feel justified in my coolness toward him as a prospect.
Josh Rosen Stats | Pro-Football-Reference.com
Yes, I get that you can't always judge a player early, but all the things I was concerned about in college have only been amplified in the pros. If he were released and we picked him up for the minimum, then fine. But to trade anything for him at this point would irritate me. He is a very clean, accurate thrower when there's no pressure in his face. I don't like his lack of awareness against blitzers, though, and I don't think a 55% completion rate and more INTs than TDs is all that exciting.
Fair. I really respect your opinion, by the way. I admit I didn't watch a lot of the Cardinals this year either, so maybe he did reveal himself as a fraud. I just thought he was the best QB peospect last year and would have a hard time passing on him for a 2nd or something.
I just remember a lot of "Josh isn't hungry, he doesn't love the game, he's not a leader" takes that either explicitly or implicitly mentioned him being a rich tennis playing kid who never faced adversity and was clearly just in it for the money (you can almost see someone flicking their nose knowingly as they wrote that). His coaches and teammates at UCLA pretty stringently disagreed, but that was still the narrative.