The QB: The Making of Modern Quarterbacks by Feldman Bruce

Author:Feldman, Bruce [Feldman, Bruce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Itzy, Kickass.to
ISBN: 9780553418460
Amazon: B00KAFXA8Y
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Published: 2014-10-28T04:00:00+00:00

THE COLLEGE COUNSELORS WERE able to sleep in and skip the climb. But Saturday was a big day for them, too. That’s when the Counselor’s Challenge was scheduled.

Every year, a half dozen or so college QBs also came to the week-long camp to compete against one another in addition to their roles assisting the Elite 11 staff. The 2013 group was the most star-studded batch of college counselors the camp had ever had. There was Johnny Manziel; Devin Gardner; Tajh Boyd, the ACC’s Player of the Year; San José State’s David Fales; Georgia Tech’s Vad Lee; and Louisville’s Teddy Bridgewater, a guy many were projecting to be the first overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft. Gardner and Boyd came to Oregon a few days early just to get in some extra work with Whitfield.

The opportunity to compete against the Heisman winner and the possible first overall draft pick had the other guys fired up. Especially Boyd. “That’s all he’s been talking about for two days,” said Gardner.

It’s doubtful Manziel would’ve even bothered to come halfway across the country for the event had George Whitfield not been helping coach. Manziel was there because of Whitfield. And a few of the other college QBs were there because of Manziel.

The six quarterbacks competed in a series of different passing drills, testing their footwork and accuracy. Manziel and Bridgewater were touted by most at the Elite 11 as the favorites. The other remaining Elite 11 coaches pegged Boyd, the most talkative counselor, as the winner. In the Clemson quarterback’s last game, against eighth-ranked LSU on New Year’s Eve in the Chick-fil-A Bowl, Boyd showed how “clutch” he could be when he converted a fourth-and-sixteen throw into tight double-coverage from near his own goal line to spark a last-minute, come-from-behind victory. Boyd was telling anyone who would listen that he was going to win the Counselor’s Challenge.

David Fales, the San José State quarterback, was on the other side of the spectrum. In a camp full of alphas, Fales was the quietest quarterback on the Nike campus. In truth, none of the other counselors had ever heard of Fales till that week. Even though Fales led the nation in completion percentage (73 percent) and carried the Spartans to a Top 25 finish in 2012, it was not as if he’d arrived at college with much buzz. San José State only had to beat Indiana State to get him out of junior college. Before Fales’s stint at Monterey Peninsula College, he was at Wyoming (for less than a month) and Nevada and was buried on the depth chart at both places.

Fales later admitted that he’d always wondered how he compared to the other top QBs in the country. Turned out, at least in that kind of setting, Fales was more than capable of holding his own. His pinpoint accuracy, particularly while throwing on the move, had all the Elite 11 coaches and campers hooting and hollering with every perfect pass as he jumped to a big-points lead over Boyd.

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