You May Never Get Another Shot at a QB...

I hear this every year...


You can't pass up a chance to draft a franchise quarterback. You may never get another chance to draft a franchise quarterback.

It sounds good. Except it's complete bullshit.


This year there were 5 potential franchise quarterbacks, I'll admit that's a lot. And that's unusual. But the idea that there won't be a potential franchise QB or two in any given draft is incorrect.


Here are the QB's who were taken as top 10 picks in the past 10 NFL Drafts...

2008

Matt Ryan-3


2009

Matthew Stafford-1
Mark Sanchez-5


2010

Sam Bradford-1

2011

Cam Newton-1
Jake Locker-8

2012

Andrew Luck-1
Robert Griffin III- 2
Ryan Tannehill-8


2013

NONE

2014

Blake Bortles-3

2015

Jameis Winston-1
Marcus Mariotta-2

2016

Jared Goff-1
Carson Wentz-2

2017

Mitchell Trobodsky
Patrick Mahomes

Matt Ryan and Cam Newton have played in the Super Bowl. Carson Wentz might have joined them this year if he hadn't gotten hurt. Mark Sanchez played in 2 AFC Title games. Bortles just played in one.

Andrew Luck has been awesome when healthy. Bradford and Stafford have been solid if not spectacular.  Winston is up and coming, Mariotta led the Titans to the playoffs as did Goff.

RGIII has been plagued by injuries. Tannehill has been a bust as been Locker. But overall? That's a pretty solid selection. And I haven't even mentioned the picks from 11-32 or in subsequent rounds.

My point is that people kiling the Giants for taking Barkley over one of the 5 QB's, IMHO, are off base. Chances are the Giants will get another chance to pick Eli's successor.

Sooner than you think.

Playoffs?

In this weeks, Weekly Mail, I lamented the fact that none of my 5 loser teams qualified for the playoffs this year. You would think that would happen more often, but if you break the year up and make it the school calendar, you'll see it has actually never happened (or at least not since I started following sports) For the sake of this experiment, we started the year in September, so we go World Series, Super Bowl, NCAA Tournament, Stanley Cup, NBA Finals in that order.

I can't believe I'm writing this, but based on that formula, this is the first time it has ever happened that not ONE team of mine qualified for the post season.

In college basketball, I only count the Big Dance (not the NIT or Conference Tourneys) In baseball, I don't count the Wild Card play in game.

Here, see for yourself...

1981/82

Mets- No
Jets-Yes
Knicks-No
Rangers-Yes
St. John's- Yes


1982/83

Mets-No
Jets-Yes
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-Yes
St. John's-Yes


1983/84

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-Yes
St. John's-Yes


1984/85

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-No
Rangers-Yes
St. John's-Yes

1985/86

Mets-No
Jets-Yes
Knicks-No
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-Yes

1986/87

Mets-Yes
Jets-Yes
Knicks-No
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-Yes

1987/88

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-No
St.John's-Yes

1988/89

Mets-Yes
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

1989/90

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-Yes

1990/91

Mets-No
Jets-No
Rangers-Yes
Knicks-Yes
St.John's-Yes

1991/92

Mets-No
Jets-Yes
Rangers-Yes
Knicks-Yes
St.John's-Yes

1992/93

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-No
St.John's-Yes

1993/94

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

1994/95

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

1995/96

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

1996/97

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

1997/98

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-No
St.John's-Yes

1998/99

Mets-No
Jets-Yes
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-No
St.John's-Yes

1999/2000

Mets-Yes
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-No
St.John's-Yes

2000/01

Mets-Yes
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-No
St.John's-No

2001/02

Mets-No
Jets-Yes
Knicks-No
Rangers-No
St.John's-Yes

2002/03

Mets-No
Jets-Yes
Knicks-No
Rangers-No
St.John's-No

2003/04

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-No
St.John's-No

2004/05

Mets-No
Jets-Yes
Knicks-No
Rangers-No
St.John's No

2005/06

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-No
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

2006/07

Mets-Yes
Jets-Yes
Knicks-No
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

2007/08

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-No
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

2008/09

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-No
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

2009/10

Mets-No
Jets-Yes
Knicks-No
Rangers-No
St.John's-No

2010/11

Mets-No
Jets-Yes
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-Yes

2011/12

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

2012/13

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-Yes
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

2013/14

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-No
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

2014/15

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-No
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-Yes

2015/16

Mets-Yes
Jets-No
Knicks-No
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

2016/17

Mets-No*
Jets-No
Knicks-No
Rangers-Yes
St.John's-No

2017/18

Mets-No
Jets-No
Knicks-No
Rangers-No
St.John's-No