**Brian Billick, Super Bowl-winning coach and current analyst for the
NFL network, takes on the 2018 draft class of quarterbacks and follows
them for two years, identifying the tangibles and intangibles of
success, in search of the key to better predicting who will make it as a
top-ranked NFL franchise QB.
** There are elite athletes in every sport -- people who possess
tangible and intangible qualities that allow them to overcome daunting
odds, spot opportunity in the midst of adversity, and turn defeat into
victory. No position embodies this dynamic more than football
quarterbacks, and nothing is a greater test of performance than the
NFL.
The tangibles -- metrics, stats, ratings, bowl games, championships --
are critical to evaluation. But they're not enough. Every year, highly
rated college quarterbacks are analyzed, critiqued, hyped up and/or
doubted, and those who manage to survive the scrutiny are drafted early.
Some of those early picks make it to the top, some end up journeymen,
and some just wash out. Why? What separates the elites from the pack?
In THE Q FACTOR, former NFL coach Brian Billick takes the highly
promising 2018 NFL quarterback Draft class -- the most touted class
since 2004 (Manning, Roethlisberger, Rivers) and 1983 (Elway, Kelly,
Marino) -- and measures the top five quarterback picks to gauge how,
why, and if they succeed. They are all first rounders, all with sterling
college credentials, all talented athletes, all taken by teams betting
their futures. One or maybe two could go on to greatness. But which
ones, and why? Could the prediction process be better? Are the "experts"
looking at the wrong factors? How do we find the best of the best?
That's what THE Q FACTOR explores...and finally explains.
