The misery of SoCal QBs

[edave]

Quarterbacks from Southern California have developed a less than sterling reputation at the NFL level.

A while back I started building a list of SoCal QBs to see how deserved that rep might be and got discouraged enough as I went along to put it aside.

I'm certain it's incomplete, I only added Rob Hertel in the last scan and I'll bet there are a bunch of others. I decided to push it out in part because of this Jason Cole piece Sorry SoCal story: Abysmal run of QBs from region has NFL personnel searching for answers and to make it easier for the next guy doing a SoCal list to get started.

One thing that does intrigue me every time I look at the list is how often the QBs come in batches from the same small area. I have no hypothesis on why that is, only the observation.

 Year              Player  Round                    Area
 2013        Matt Barkley    ???               Santa Ana
 2012        Ryan Lindley      6                Lakeside
 2010       Jimmy Clausen      2           Thousand Oaks
 2009        Mark Sanchez      1           Mission Viejo
 2009      Rudy Carpenter   UDFA           Thousand Oaks
 2008     Kevin O'Connell      3                Carlsbad
 2007          Matt Moore   UDFA          Canyon Country
 2006        Matt Leinart      1               Santa Ana
 2005          Alex Smith      1                 La Mesa
 2005         Matt Cassel      7              Northridge
 2004         J.P. Losman      1             Los Angeles
 2003       Carson Palmer      1  Rancho Santa Margarita
 2003         Kyle Boller      1           Santa Clarita
 1999         Akili Smith      1               San Diego
 1997          Pat Barnes      4           Mission Viejo
 1996          Tony Banks      2               San Diego
 1996      Kyle Wachholtz      7                   Norco
 1995         Rob Johnson      4             Lake Forest
 1995            Chad May      4                La Verne
 1995     Steve Stenstrom      4             Lake Forest
 1994         Perry Klein      4             Los Angeles
 1991         Dan McGwire      1               Claremont
 1991     Todd Marinovich      1               Santa Ana
 1991          Pat O'Hara     10            Santa Monica
 1989        Jeff Carlson      4            Garden Grove
 1987     Steve Beuerlein      4                 Anaheim
 1985  Randall Cunningham      2           Santa Barbara
 1985      Sean Salisbury   UDFA               Escondido
 1984       Jay Schroeder      3             Los Angeles
 1983          John Elway      1             Los Angeles
 1983          Tom Ramsey     10             Los Angeles
 1980       Paul McDonald      4              Montebello
 1980       Turk Schonert      9                 Anaheim
 1978          Rob Hertel      5              Montebello
 1975           Pat Haden      7               La Puente

[tubbs1518]

The only person on that list I would call a good QB is Elway. That doesn't make me want to raise Barkley up my draft board any.

[packa7x]

Is Aaron Rodgers SoCal?

[packa7x]

The only person on that list I would call a good QB is Elway. That doesn't make me want to raise Barkley up my draft board any.

Cunningham too, IMO.

[KabaModernFan]

Is Aaron Rodgers SoCal?

I thought that Rodgers was from a suburb of Sacramento, or something similar to that. Not quite SoCal.

[wxwax]

Born in Chico, solidly NorCal.

[packa7x]

Shows what I know all I know is he likes to surf and is a huge fan of country music...figured that was more SoCal, but guess I was dead wrong lol

[edave]

Rodgers, Brady and a few others are from NorCal.

Some other random notes.

Tony Romo was born in SoCal but moved as a youngster and doesn't count.

Greg McElroy was also born in LA and lived there for 10 years. He also doesn't count.

Mike Holmgren was a reserve QB at USC but is from San Francisco and rather than start a holy war, I leave him out of SoCal, so he doesn't count.

[edave]

Shows what I know all I know is he likes to surf and is a huge fan of country music...figured that was more SoCal, but guess I was dead wrong lol

He lives in SoCal now, just north of San Diego.

[hobbes27]

Shows what I know all I know is he likes to surf and is a huge fan of country music...figured that was more SoCal, but guess I was dead wrong lol

Since when do people in So Cal have a reputation for liking country music?