Outrageous -- Patterson deserves a shot

It seems weird that Lewerke is at least getting a shot. Thought Patterson was at least better than Lewerke.

Look, you can be good in college and have no pro prospects. It happens with top college basketball players all the time. Im appreciative for the wins Shea gave us, but at the same time I would not want him on my NFL team’s roster. Poor arm strength, indecisive, inaccurate. He is absolutely not an NFL QB. Sorry but thats life for him

I think NFL teams are probably looking for quarterbacks who don't fumble snaps or trip over their own feet in big games.

As Clint Eastwood said to Gene Hackman before shooting him at the end of Unforgiven, "Deserve's got nothing to do with it."

NFL teams couldn't care less about a player's place in his school's record books. They only care about who can help them win, and correct me if I'm wrong but it's kind of difficult for a QB to get their attention if he doesn't consistently hit WR's downfield. Shea never did.

Shea had some great moments for Michigan. At the end of the day he was a decent QB but he never became the big-time 5* playmaker we all thought we were getting. He didn't show much that would excite an NFL scout.

And 32 teams who evaluate talent in order to win and make money want nothing to do with him. 

Puzzling...or maybe not.

https://www.si.com/college/michigan/football/shea-patterson-nfl-draft-u…

"I think the biggest thing is, 'What does he do well?'" the second scout said. "He's not very accurate. He doesn't have a big arm. His deep ball efficiency is below-average. His mechanics are really a concern. I don't know if he works with a private coach or not but someone should have rebuilt him. He throws from so many arm angles and it's lazy. Guys like Mahomes and Rodgers do it because it's required. Patterson seemed to do it because his mechanics are shoddy."

Patterson certainly had enough opportunity to make a case for his potential. While I'm grateful for his loyalty to the team, he just had to many performances in big games in which he didn't rise to the occasion. Looking at the  4th Q in the Alabama game last of the season, for example, he just couldn't hit the receivers in stride. His arm strength just isnt there for the pros IMO.

Although it’s sad for me to watch someone’s career dreams shattered, if you’re lucky enough to live for at least 70 years, then you might understand that none of us “deserves” anything.  

Without knowing why Shea Patterson hasn’t signed with an NFL team, it’s not like he has no other options. If he wants to pursue a pro football career, but no NFL team is willing to sign him to a contract, then he could offer to work for no pay as a training-camp invitee to add to the number of quarterbacks available to throw during NFL preseason practices.

He could wait until the XFL emerges from bankruptcy or some other pro football league is started. He also could try to negotiate with Canadian Football League teams or speak with the Texas Rangers about pursuing a pro baseball career in the minor leagues, but as a 39th-round draft choice who hasn’t played baseball regularly since his junior year of high school, his pro baseball opportunities may be very limited.  

If professional sports won’t be in his future, then graduate school and working as a graduate assistant coach for a college team might be opportunities available to him.  He could speak about those kinds of opportunities with another former Michigan quarterback who wasn't selected in the NFL Draft, the current Offensive Coordinator at Indiana, Nick Sheridan.

If he deserved a shot he’d get a shot

so...the NFL...with 32 teams, trying to decide on a qb, Tampa has Brady. Chiefs seem set, Cinci just spent $26 million-plus contract money...call it 29, oh wait, Miami, Chargers, Raiders, Packers, Eagles, yeah maybe being one of the top qbs is hard...

Let's see, he beat uh...Northwestern in a clutch game, and MSU, and...nobody top 10 in his two seasons. Maybe it had more to do with lazy receivers, maybe it had to do with horrible game plans, maybe it had to do with injury, maybe it had to do with golf vs summer prep...MAYBE 32 NFL offices said...nope, he's not the guy to take our program forward. Get over it. Hope he enjoys his degree, becomes a great representative of the University and football program, finds success outside college football and maybe even joins the PGA? My NFL dream was cut short well before his. Life is difficult.

If McCaffrey does not get hurt, Shae loses his starting job in the WI game. Hard to see how you translate that to a shot in the NFL.  There are maybe 100 QBs total in the NFL, including scout team.  Hard to see Shae breaking into that list.

Please!!! I saw him live in October vs Iowa and then I saw Joe Burrow live in the SEC Championship game as well as Trevor Lawrence against South Carolina. Patterson looked like a JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL QB compared to those two. It was ridiculous in how much difference there was between them. Patterson was good in high school but no where near an NFL QB and Michigan;s records during his 2 years proves it. Amazing how Harbaugh can't recruit a top QB. Had Tua come to AA to play, Harbaugh would have sit him for two years because "he has to get experience" to play at Michigan and he would have left. 

b618 is either a burner account Maizen set up a couple years ago, someone who hit the sauce a little early today, or a relative of Shea's. Three options... you pick.

He has no future in football. He had a good past in football, but he doesn't have a future in it for pretty obvious reasons. He often didn't make reads, or when he did he made bad reads, or when he made good reads he made bad throws. He made good throws too, but not enough of them. Those things were glaringly obvious at the collegiate level, they'll be even more pronounced in the NFL. I wish him all the best, certainly I'm no better, I have no place in the nfl, neither does he. His future success lies elsewhere. 

I don’t know why this result was not blatantly obvious to all of us here. 
 

What is the difference between QB at the CFB level vs. NFL? Simple. You HAVE to be able to deliver the ball into windows less than 1/2 the size of those in CFB. What does the require as a pre requisite? Velocity. If your ball floats, it’s a pic. 
 

What is the next most important skill in the NFL? Read and recognize. How many WRs did Shea miss that were, upon further review, wide open. An NFL scout doesn’t have too see that in film too many times to say hard no. This is something, like velocity, that cannot be fixed and they know it. 
 

Next? Pocket presence. The ability to stand in there until the last possible second in the face of a pass rush and deliver the strike. She’s bailed out of at least a dozen clean pockets this year. NFL scout sees that. Hard no. 
 

He was a high 3* that camped his way to 5* status. You can fool college recruiters because they look at 18yr olds very raw and talk about potential. They LOVE camps. So did Shea. But the NFL knows what they are looking at and no rivals writer can fool them. 
 

BTW, this is the problem with camps. Participation merits something and that something is ratings. Long time HS coach from Wisconsin told me a couple years ago that you could build a serviceable B1G offensive line from unrated kids in Wisconsin. They work family farms and have no time to go to camps. He counted off 8 kids that ended up in the MAC, or D2, that played in his conference over a decade that spent time in the NFL.