The Flack On Flacco

[stan]

Check this out.

[CARavensFan]

This link was already included in the "Joe Flacco Highlights" thread on this board.

[Raven07]

yea thats all fine and dandy but you look at Flacco's Highlights compared to Troy Smith's highlights and there's just no comparison needed.......Troy is the better athlete hands down.

[Devastat1on]

yea thats all fine and dandy but you look at Flacco's Highlights compared to Troy Smith's highlights and there's just no comparison needed.......Troy is the better athlete hands down.

Is that why so many other teams passed up on him?

[Raven07]

hardly... if you remember during the course of last year draft and post-draft everyone was saying that "if he (Troy) was just a tad bit taller, he'd be a first rounder for dead certian.

[samic]

Harbaugh said that Troy has what it takes to be a starter in this league, he proved that in the way he has played. It's now up to him to go out and win the job! I'm very hopeful that Troy can start for us and lead this team into the future.

[Raven07]

for me personally, im rooting fully for Troy on this one, i really want to see what he's got, and how he goes about from week to week, preparing, practicing, playing, working out..... plus the fact that he has all the tools (physically and mentally) to get the job done and done well at that. so im rootin for Troy. even though im all for whoever goes out there and wins us ball games.

[Ravens_Pwn12]

i didnt know joes first name is smokin

[Devastat1on]

i didnt know joes first name is smokin

That wasnt serious right?

[Ravens_Pwn12]

That wasnt serious right?

hahahhahahha it was a joke hhaha

[MongooseMcGrath]

Check this out.

The only way to see the guy play in by going to youtube since his junior varsity school wasn't on TV outside of a 10 mile radius from where they were playing. You can't see any of his bowl game highlights since his school wasn't eligible. But wait a minute, he can throw the ball 70 yards and he can throw the ball to 1 of his 4-5 receivers against D-1AA talent, so he is def gonna be good in the NFL!!!!!!

[ck335]

look at Flacco's Highlights compared to Troy Smith's highlights and there's just no comparison needed.......Troy is the better athlete hands down.

[GoBirds2008]

They say Joe has an arm and pretty accurate...

[saver509]

Bad second round pick... wish Limas Sweed from Texas would have fell to us...

[saver509]

Check this out.

Cool video I have never seen this before...THX

[berad]

Ray Rice was a bad 2nd rounder?

[Ravensfan420]

Ray Rick was a GENIUS pick by ozzie. Joe Flacoo maybe a good pick, the future will tell.. I dont think he'll ever have the mobility but hopefully im wrong.

[berad]

Ray Rick was a GENIUS pick by ozzie. Joe Flacoo maybe a good pick, the future will tell.. I dont think he'll ever have the mobility but hopefully im wrong.

QBs don't necessarily need "mobility" to be effective. Countless players have had immensely successful careers with slow legs.

[Ravensfan420]

Yeah but I bet they had an o-line and some nice big and tall WR's.. I didnt say he would be unsuccesful i was just talkin about his mobility mechanics.

[Redreed]

QBs don't necessarily need "mobility" to be effective. Countless players have had immensely successful careers with slow legs.

Agreed, but wasn't his mobility one of the things all the draft experts were raving about anyway? I could swear I heard the phrases 'deceptively quick', 'surprisingly mobile', and 'great feet' at nausea during the swell of media attention he got in the draft coverage.

[Ravensfan420]

he maybe quick against some smalltime college team.. Remember he played for Deleware.. No big fast lineman or LB's like d1. It's hard to compare him when he hasnt played the big games in his past....

[berad]

he maybe quick against some smalltime college team.. Remember he played for Deleware.. No big fast lineman or LB's like d1. It's hard to compare him when he hasnt played the big games in his past....

Um, he played against Towson, duh, the perennial powerhouse of Football

[Ravensfan420]

ROLLS ON FLOOR LAUGHING. :lol:

[Redreed]

ROLLS ON FLOOR LAUGHING. :lol:

Otherwise known as ROFL? I thought threads were the whole reason started typing ROFL instead of the words.

All caps FTL, BTW...

[Ravensfan420]

Most people who type ROFL aren't actually rolling on the floor laughing.. I really was so it made more sense to just type it out. It wasn't very challenging to do! Sorry I'm different. If everyone did the same thing I'd go crazy! Variety is the spice of life

[Ravens_Pwn12]

QBs don't necessarily need "mobility" to be effective. Countless players have had immensely successful careers with slow legs.

Yeah Tom Brady and Peyton Manning arent very mobile and there the best qbs in the nfl

[POE]

Flacco is a stud! The O-line will grow around him, the addition of Ray Rice has set up a young 1-2 punch for the future now all we need to do for the 09' draft is go out and get Heyward-Bay WR from Maryland to have the 1-2-3 punch on offense. With Darius' hands, speed and height it would solidify the WR spot for us for years with Flacco throwing to him, Clayton, D-Williams, Mason for a few more years I guess and handing off to Rice. The future is ours fellas!!

[FlacDog5]

[quote name='Ravensfan420' post='58888' date='Aug 17 2008, 09:37 PM']he maybe quick against some smalltime college team.. Remember he played for Deleware.. No big fast lineman or LB's like d1. It's hard to compare him when he hasnt played the big games in his past....[/quote]

He was recrutied by Pitt! so he has played aganist D1.

[BuckWilds]

[quote name='FlacDog5' post='62535' date='Sep 4 2008, 09:33 AM']He was recrutied by Pitt! so he has played aganist D1.[/quote]

Some people need to go watch some CAA games (the poster to which you replied). I'm not talking cellar dweller folks like Towson (although they are getting better). I'm talking Villanova, UMass, Delaware, James Madison... The whole team isn't huge/fast, but there are some outright beasts on some of these teams in D-1AA. Flacco has seen enough of them throughout the playoffs and the CAA to know something about it. It's not like Delaware doesn't play Navy and ACC teams to within a touchdown (in both directions I might add) either...

I think playing against the Ravens D for a few weeks has done him some good.

[bollweasel]

[quote name='Zhamtao' post='62631' date='Sep 4 2008, 04:48 PM']Some people need to go watch some CAA games (the poster to which you replied). I'm not talking cellar dweller folks like Towson (although they are getting better). I'm talking Villanova, UMass, Delaware, James Madison... The whole team isn't huge/fast, but there are some outright beasts on some of these teams in D-1AA. Flacco has seen enough of them throughout the playoffs and the CAA to know something about it. It's not like Delaware doesn't play Navy and ACC teams to within a touchdown (in both directions I might add) either...

I think playing against the Ravens D for a few weeks has done him some good.[/quote]

I have been following NFL football (old fan of Baltimore Colts - saw Unitas play in person) for over 44 years and I am almost certain that Joe Flacco is going to be a good one. He just needs to get some time under center. Just as I had major doubts and concerns about Boller from the first day I saw him in action, I have the opposite view of Flacco. The reason I state this is Flacco's mechanics are much better and his poise and demeanor is directly the opposite of Kyle Boller. Now, with this being said I am not espousing that Joe will go out against the Bengals and light them up, he will no doubt struggle early on like virtually every young QB including future HOFer's like Unitas. I just hope that most Ravens fans are astute enough to realize this and give the young man time to grow and develop.

Boller was thrust into the starting job way too soon and it probably hurt his development although, even had he been brought along slowly his mechanical issues would still be the same, but perhaps he would have had better poise. I just hope starting Flacco so soon doesn't damage his psyche. He seems like a strong minded, even keeled kid (again the opposite of Boller who was physically tough but otherwise not very tough minded under pressure) and I hope thrusting him into the starting role this soon doesn't harm him long term.

As far as his mobility, he may be slightly slower afoot than Boller but his pocket awareness is night and day better and I think he will be much more mobile than Kyle was, as Kyle had the knack of running right into the pressure instead of avoiding it. Of course, Troy Smith is fantastic in this regard and Flacco shouldn't be compared to him in that regard, but Flacco is much more of a pure pocket passer than the scrambler type in Troy. I think Troy will become a decent backup to Joe which is always important to have on any team.