There is no way anyone who understands football could look at the film of cornpone Mahomes or Bridgewater 2.0 Watson and think they were better prospects than Trubisky. San Francisco passed on all 3 of them.
Texas Tech has literally been the most laughable gimmick offense in the history of organized football. Mahomes was putting up the same numbers that Coach Kingsbury once did in that system. Then he wound up playing for a head coach who has literally never found a QB he could fail with. Matt Moore just went from coaching HS football to nearly beating one of the best teams in the NFL last night while playing for Andy Reid. Read: Patrick Mahomes is. NOT. THAT. GOOD.
He's dumber than a second coat of paint, his footwork stinks, and he's no more accurate than Trubisky. The only thing he has going for him that Alex Smith did not is he's aggressive down the field, which works when you have that system and that kind of speed at WR.
Watson isn't in that easy a system, but he is playing with DeAndre Hopkins, who will be in Canton one day.
And neither of them are playing Nagy's joke of an offense, which is what is most important. Nagy can pull out all the trickery he wants, but his arrogance is leading to a stubbornness where he develops game plans with a lack of fundamentals, and he seems to have no interest in learning from his mistakes and getting better.
First......you sound like a guy who reads the box score and just thinks Mahomes must be some system guy. That isn't it. He has an incredible arm and he can throw accurately from any platform......COUPLED WITH, his ability to keep his eyes downfield scanning for targets at all times.....plus he's a good dude, who LOVES football and is dedicated to the craft.
Now...about white/black. First...I am not sure how or who gets to decide if someone is black, part black, black enough, white enough etc.....I don't think it's a good idea to judge skin color. In the case of Mahomes....his mom, who is white, and from a small town in northeast, TX, is a TRUMP supporter and fairly public with her faith. She's pretty typically "white" if there is such a thing. Does that make Mahomes a white guy? His dad was a black athlete...does that make him a black guy? I don't know. I also don't care. As others have point out....he's a winner. That's what matters.
If I were a marketing guy, whose only job was to get the most out of some dudes marketability....being a winner in the NFL still gets it done..but SECOND to that, would be Mahomes....(and to a lesser extent, a Watson) Mahomes...Black athlete dad who seems humble and professional. White mom with big tits from a small town, who is overtly conservative. Pat's skin tone and lineage is black enough to be "black" and white enough to be "white". He's the "everyman" dream of a marketing professional. There isn't a demographic out there he doesn't relate to. EVERYONE loves the guy!
As far as Pace Being racist....I don't think that's a fair take here....Teabiscuit was the "consensus" QB at the top of the list. Pace probably likes his job....I can't imagine you'd risk your highly paid, high profile job, because you want to pick a dude whose skin color was in line with your ideal at QB. ......I'd even buy that he interviewed Watson and Trubs and thought Trubs was smarter........Andy Ried had Watson and Mahomes in.....and it leaked out that they didn't think Watson was very good with the whiteboard stuff they threw at him. Houston had them both in.....it leaked out that they LOVED Mahomes, and liked Watson. If you consider both of them Black...maybe Paces mistake was not interveiwing Mahomes. Perhaps Watson just isn't very good at expressing his thoughts about plays etc on a blackboard....maybe Trubs was good at it.
I don't think Pace made a racially motivated choice when he took Trubisky.
Here is a picture of the Houston War Room as they were selecting Watson by the way.....NO ONE was happy except GM Rick Smith (who had been directed by owner McNair to go get Watson)
