Matt McGuire's Prospect Profiles: Matt Ryan, Colt Brennan and Joe Flacco

[Walter]

http://walterfootball.com/draft2008P.php

Can be found here by scrolling down just a bit

[NoNonsenseCoach]

How much of a concern is being a 25-year-old rookie? I see it as not being a positive thing, but not to much of a negative either. John Beck is a 26-year-old rookie.

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Matt Ryan
Player Comparison: Tony Romo

I have seem Matt in a few games and I don't see that at all

Colt Brennan
Player Comparison: Chad Pennington

I thought Pennington couldn't throw a 15 yard pass.

Other than the Player Comparison good job

[Walter]

Pennington can throw the ball 40 yards downfield.

The big deal with Pennington's arm is he can't throw a 10- or 15-yard out because the throw is so weak it tends to get picked off. There's no zip on the ball.

Brennan has the same problem.

[Matt McGuire]

How much of a concern is being a 25-year-old rookie? I see it as not being a positive thing, but not to much of a negative either. John Beck is a 26-year-old rookie.

Beck didn't come from a gimmick offense and won't have much of a learning curve in terms of learning a pro offense as opposed to Brennan. Plus he doesn't have Brennan's character concerns.

Beck might end up being a product of such great coaching at BYU (all their QBs show a lot of distinguished passing attributes), but on tape he looked great, and I think with time in the NFL he will be a good quarterback.

Brennan is an awfully risky prospect and in my time studying the history of translating college QBs to pro QBs Brennan rates very low and he has a lot of bust factors.

[NoNonsenseCoach]

Oh, I wasn't trying to compare Brennan and Beck... just their ages. I was saying it didn't seem like teams cared to much that he was 26. It obviously wasn't a positive, but did not seem to slow anyone down.