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Who is the best rookie quarterback you ever saw play on a team you covered (where you worked) other than Dan Marino? Why?
Ed Scott
You've found a weak spot in my career. I really haven't been blessed with covering a lot of great rookie quarterbacks in my time in Columbus, Ga., Miami and St. Petersburg. I've had Bruce Gradkowski and Sean King and Josh Freeman. I guess the best one I've been around was back when I was a baby in this business.
It was Steve Bartkowski, a streaky quarterback taken overall No. 1 by the Atlanta Falcons in 1975. God, that was 40 years ago. Bart, as I remember, was a streaky guy who wasn't good enough to lift up his team. He was only 55-66 with Atlanta, and his only real keeper year was in 1980. The Bucs should want more from Jameis Winston than that.
Marino had his rookie year before I got to Miami. Dilfer was awful. Freeman had
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