{"id":70019,"date":"2022-04-28T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=70019"},"modified":"2022-04-27T09:19:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T13:19:39","slug":"qotd-the-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/04\/28\/qotd-the-nfl-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>NFL scouts can (and do) measure just about everything about a prospect prior to the draft, but they can&#8217;t quantifiably measure heart and leadership, two of the most important yet undervalued skills a quarterback can possess.<\/p>\n<p>Every year they draft these big, strong, good-looking guys that can chuck it a country mile. And three years later they turn out to be Joey Harrington or Tim Couch or Jeff George or some other bust who couldn&#8217;t lead a hungry lineman to free barbeque, let alone an entire team to a championship. <\/p>\n<p>Dan Wetzel, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/news;_ylt=Am0w.q8K1j_47ilNwLgvmmFDubYF?slug=dw-young042606&#038;prov=yhoo&#038;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Follow the Leader&#8221;, <em>Yahoo! Sports<\/em><\/a>, 2006-04-27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL scouts can (and do) measure just about everything about a prospect prior to the draft, but they can&#8217;t quantifiably measure heart and leadership, two of the most important yet undervalued skills a quarterback can possess. Every year they draft these big, strong, good-looking guys that can chuck it a country mile. And three years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,41],"tags":[572,179,960,290],"class_list":["post-70019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-quotations","tag-leadership","tag-nfl","tag-nfldraft","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-idl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73282,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70019\/revisions\/73282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}