Welcome to the Patriots Jarrett Stidham

scott99 said:

Love seeing Stidham to WR Ryan Davis in this game. Pats signed Davis as an UDFA yesterday after the draft. Stidham showed why he was highly thought of, just did some great things in that game. Just wasn’t enough of those kind of games, though Auburn really is a running team.

I really think Belichick, Brady and McDaniels can coach this kid up, and he can be a good NFL QB.

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Davis looks great. Nice pick up.

4th round pick is a "safe bet". Patriots hedging on Stidham.

If he stinks, 2020 QB draft has a strong field and Patriots can look again.

If Stidham looks promising this year, then 2020 QB draft may not be as important.

Stidham probably has this year to prove/show he is capable, as 6-time SB QB, Brady will be 43 in 2020.

primetime said:

He beat Alabama by himself in 2017 and he's got all the arm talent in the world and he's athletic as hell. He was pretty pedestrian this year and seems to fold under both mental and physical pressure. If he had played well this year we're talking a top-10 pick, especially in this QB crop. I don't know what to make of him but he's got the most talent of any QB you're going to take in the 4th round.

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I saw him in games in2017 and thought he looked very good. Did not see him until Senior Bowl this past season but thought he looked good in that game. I think it's a good pick.

Can’t wait to get a Stidham #56 jersey.

I like this kid. He has some good intangibles. I have relatives from Alabama that are big Tiger fans and that spilled off on me.
What will be more important for him if he is the heir apparent to TB is his mental toughness makeup. Not that type of toughness to stand in the pocket under duress. But that type of toughness of having to be the one who replaced the GOAT.

Tony Eason 2.0?

damning with faint praise I see...

AQPE said:

Tony Eason 2.0?

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Let's hope Dan Marino 2.0. One similarity is that both Stidham and Marino had outstanding junior years and less than impressive senior years. Marino fell to 27th in the first round in the draft in which the Pats picked Eason at 15. Stidham fell all the way to the fourth round this year.

some nice throws in this video.

Stidham was elite at Baylor. Probably the wrong system for him at Auburn. Very talented certainly.

captain insano said:

some nice throws in this video.

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My second favorite QB in this draft shocked we got him near the end of the 4th.
Really thought the Chargers would take him.

AQPE said:

Tony Eason 2.0?

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He's in next year's draft.

SBLIII said:

Stidham was elite at Baylor. Probably the wrong system for him at Auburn. Very talented certainly.

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And he was 19 year old freshman at Baylor, when he was playing so well. Auburn actually recruited him, but he chose Baylor.

I believe he would've been a 1st round pick if he stayed at Baylor, he was tearing it up.

Some yahoo who is a part of the Dallas Pats fans club is running his mouth about how all kinds of self-important Stidham supposedly is. From the fact that he decommitted from Texas Tech to go to Baylor and then left Baylor after the Briles scandal before going to Auburn after a year at Community College.

Says the kid lacks commitment to taking care of himself (aka rehabbing injuries / studying the playbook).

I mention this because I've found nothing that supports the guys claims about Stidham being selfish or that he didn't rehab properly or didn't study the play-book. Something that I'm sure would have come out in Pre-Draft scuttlebutt.

IcyPatriot said:

Heard he has some back issue which he played through all year.

Another one who will be IR'd and he'll get a year to be acclimated.

A good pick and we'll see who gets picked next year to compete with him and Etling.

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His back got hurt during his first start for Baylor. He played through it. It wasn't until he suffered a broken bone in his ankle during his last game as a freshman that he was forced to miss a start. Baylor's Bowl game that year.

Redman443 said:

BB failures
Kevin O’connell
Ryan Mallett
Probably Etling
Jacoby Brissett

BB successes
Brady
Jimmy G

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How was Brissett a failure? He was a successful starter for the Pats and did as good as anyone could do for a horrible Colts team that had no O-line to speak of.

p8ryts said:

I saw him in games in2017 and thought he looked very good. Did not see him until Senior Bowl this past season but thought he looked good in that game. I think it's a good pick.

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Stidham had a down year in 2018, mainly due to an O-line that wasn't as good as 2017. That's not to say he doesn't have issues. He does. As others have pointed out. But they aren't insurmountable.

VJCPatriot said:

"Lowering our chances" by spending a 4th round pick? L-O-L. This wasn't a premium pick that the Pats just spent, this is your typical mid round, hope you can get a backup player out of this pick type of selection. And if Stidham only turns out to be a backup QB who never sees the field, and only gives you practice snaps, he actually fulfilled the value of that pick and did it on a cheap rookie deal.

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Pats have done damn well w/4th round picks the last decade.

8 of 11 have earned multiple starts, contributed to SB wins, and/or been big time players. Complete flameouts in parens, but otherwise, these aren't a buncha JAGS. Don't poo poo what the Pats have actually done vs the league in general.

2017 - Wise
2016 - Mitchell
2015 - Flowers, Shaq (Tre Jackson - injury induced?)
2014 - White, Stork, Fleming
2013 - (Boyce)
2010 - Hernandez
2009 - (Rich Somebody)

Unsurprisingly cold reception by most of the board. Here is from someone who was close enough to both sides to know a thing or two about the pick (via Reiss) - ex Pats scout and director of Senior Bowl - Jim Nagy:

"My first exposure to Jarrett was at Auburn's pro day two years ago. He was just lighting it up. I don't know if you've seen him throw live yet, but he's the most beautiful thrower of the football in this year's draft class. He was so accurate that day to all levels, I grabbed a couple buddies on the coaching staff and asked, 'Is this him every day or is this an aberration?' They were like, 'This is him every day.' So my first exposure to Jarrett was so good, I've been on the bandwagon since. ... Now Auburn didn't have the year they were supposed to have this year and the fan base was disappointed. And Jarrett will tell you he didn't have the season he wanted, either. But when you evaluate the quarterback position, even more so than the other positions, you have to evaluate what's going on around the quarterback. It was just kind of a s---storm: A young offensive line that never jelled, they had protection issues with their young running backs ... but Jarrett became the whipping boy. I went to bat for him. I think Jarrett could end up as one of the steals of the draft. The popular narrative of this year's draft was that there were the four quarterbacks -- [Dwayne] Haskins, [Kyler] Murray, [Drew] Lock and [Daniel] Jones -- and then the next tier of [Will] Grier, Stidham, [Ryan] Finley, [Clayton] Thorson. To me, there wasn't a big shelf between the two groups at all. So to get Jarrett Stidham in the fourth round, he could potentially be the next guy."


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