Originally posted by boomer49er:
Claiming someone is a great leader is the most generic, lazy, and cliche analysis I can think of. I want someone to tell me, specifically, what Mac Jones has done that qualifies him as a better leader than any other QB in the draft. I'll wait.
Some guys are great leaders, some guys aren't and you can easily pick out the great ones. Dak Prescott had a leadership quotient through the roof. Guys were ready to jump in front of a moving train for him, they believed in him to a crazy degree, everyone swooned over him from teammates, coaches, school faculty, other students and people in the local community. He had a surplus of charisma, it was easy to tell that he was a strong field general.
I wouldn't put Jones or anyone else at that level because Dak had a tier all to himself but you can see that this guy has a tremendous amount of respect from teammates, from coaches, how he took control during games, even at the Senior Bowl you had scouts praising his leadership ability and how he was quickly taking over drills and telling people where to line up, what they needed to he doing. Teammates and coaches will usually say something nice about a player, nobody wants to f**k someone's draft status but with Jones you've seen a lot of over the top kind of praise from teammates and around the program.
"The guy was just playing two weeks ago," Rhule told reporters on Wednesday. "The fact that he's here, I think, speaks a lot about who he is. You get a chance to see his intelligence. He makes really quick decisions. He processes information quickly, highly intelligent. He's an alpha. He's the first guy on the practice field. He's the first guy in the runnings.
"He's got a lot of really, really, really strong traits."
"Mac has always been a workhorse," Leatherwood said. "Ever since he came on campus, he has been one of the hardest workers. I feel like it has been consistent with him coming into this fall camp. He works his ass off and he's a great team player and leader for our team."
"Guy's accurate. He's a friggin' winner. He's a real dude," an NFC scout said. "Obviously, his teammates (receivers Jaylen Waddle and DeVonta Smith) are coming out and talking about how they'd play for him over Tua -- I don't think it's a slight to Tua, these guys have had a lot of success with Mac as the guy. He's got a chance to be a stud in the league."
There's no question that he's a very good leader but that in itself obviously isn't enough to have success at the NFL level. Its a good trait to possess as a quarterback but it takes a whole lot more. I don't see any of these QB's as lacking in that area so really its a toss up but its clear that Jones handled himself very well.
