1st Round QB trade up

[painekiller]

I have been doing more looking into a few guys

Jacoby Brissett has an arm and is athletic. We have never had a strong armed QB who can run. Watch the video.

NFL.com has the following blurb about him

Bottom Line With his size, arm and competitiveness, there are times when Brissett will remind you of Jameis Winston, but Winston understood the nuances of the position early in his college career while Brissett is still learning. Brissett’s overall ability as a passer is NFL-****caliber and he should continue to show rapid improvement on the next level with better weapons and protection. While an NFL staff will need to help him overcome his bad habits and learn to be more consistent with his pre****snap recognitions, Brissett has the tools to become an NFL starter.
-Lance Zierlein

And I have relooked at Cook. Watch the video.

NFL.com's Lance Zierlien has this to say

Bottom Line As a four-year starter, Cook has the big game experience and the production from a pro-style attack that should warrant early consideration.The concern is that his short and intermediate accuracy has never shown the improvement and consistency that scouts expected to see. His inability to take over in big games this year could hurt his cause. Cook flashes the potential of an NFL starter, but he has the makeup of game manager over playmaker.

If the team likes either of these guys and can get them, I think I would be ok with it.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by painekiller

And I have relooked at Cook. Watch the video.

This video shows off a lot of the good stuff I like about Cook's skillset. Vision, poise, size, strength, mechanics. NFL ready, at least from the neck down. LZ compared Cook to Hoyer in that article, which is an AWFUL comparison. Just terrible. Cook is nothing like Hoyer.

Couch scouts and draftniks hate that he skipped the Senior Bowl. Big frickin' whoop. Real scouts will see him at the Combine and his pro day, plus Cook has AMPLE game film from winning so many games at Michigan State. The negatives bantered about regarding his leadership... maybe it's Cutler-esque in that regard, but not Leaf-like. Not sure how much these off-field knocks on Cook will truly stick in NFL warrooms.

Cook has a teammate in this link aggressively disputing these notions.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...qb-connor-cook

"I don't buy any of that, one bit. I feel like, as he is my brother and he is family to me, it's kind of my obligation to try to kill some of that noise," Harris said. "Hopefully I can do that by getting people to understand from the inside of that locker room that we loved him and that he was the best quarterback in the country, no doubt about it.

"It's been a mystery to us, and it's really unfortunate. He's a great guy who comes from a great family. It's hurtful to me as well because he's part of our 2011 class that's been able to do so many special things at Michigan State. I know him, I know his parents well, his sister, I know everything about him. We talk all the time. For how close and tight-knit the team was, to me it's been kind of blasphemous, the amount of things that have been said about him."