Schaub: Second coming of Elway or second best in Texas?
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Jennifer Floyd Engel gets in a nice dig today:
Big, strong and available has a way of turning usually sane NFL types into schoolboys with crushes, incapable of seeing clearly.
What other possible explanation is there for an "an NFL scout" telling the Houston Chronicle that Texans QB Matt Schaub "is better than Tony Romo"?
What is crazy is said NFL scout is not alone. ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper Jr. said Wednesday he'd take "Schaub ahead of Romo, no question about it, 16 exclamation points."
Said scout based his assessment on his belief that Schaub rocks at game management and in-game control while Romo needs work. He must be the world's best scout, too, because he learned all of this in Schaub's two starts and 36 appearances as a backup to Michael Vick.
He may be the second coming of John Elway.
What is more likely is he'll end up being exactly what he is now -- the second-best starting NFL QB in the state of Texas.
SLAM!
The Chronicle sports page frequently goes overboard with cheerleading for its favorites (or crushes, if you will), so finding the silly Romo/Schaub quote on those pages was hardly a surprise to some of us. But it's interesting that non-locals do notice such things.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 03/29/07 09:38 AM | Print | Comments (1)
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