i dunno why you keep saying the ravens should start lamar... he's just not ready rn and they can still somehwat compete with flacco
also why do you hate RBs so much
chargers are not better than the chiefs... chiefs make very few mistakes on offense and while we're doing better we are not a better team until bosa comes back, to which then its questionable. no one in the secondary can cover tyreek which means hes gonna get a safety on him or hes gonna gash us, which leaves kelce or hunt wide open to burn us
jon gruden is a fucking clown. have you heard some of the shit he says?
because they need variance. "somewhat competing" doesnt give them a lot of title equity. if you're not having that, then you want to give your rookie quarterback game experience. and the upside is: what if he's really good? that gives you a shot at a super bowl. this is a thing you find out by playing him. so in short while it prolly decreases their 2018 skill mean it increases their title prob and also increases both skill mean and title prob in the future.
it's a possibility that theyre better than the chiefs yea. defense is and offense might be more closer to the chiefs than people think. rivers goofy-ass throwing motion is somehow effective and keenan allen looks like he playing lax out there with the fluid hips. they should have beaten the chiefs week 1!
because rbs do not have much of a material impact on football games relative to one another. they are relatively replaceable because most running yards and nearly all rushing touchdowns are situationally gained - they could be picked up by nearly any running back and depend mostly on scheme and line play. passing is more effective than running in most circumstances. so on first and ten you should be doing the efficient thing most of the time. i suspect having a "good" running back makes you more likely to run on first down, maybe hurting your offense. i dont doub that there are skills to running, but they're less important than skills at qb or wr or defensive end.
is gruden tanking on purpose? if he is it is not a bad tank
First off this take cannot be included as fresh despite its zestiness as people have been talking about how he’s lost it for years. Interestingly though the talk of how he’s “lost it” has been half right. The reason you keep seeing him lose it is simply because he’s never had it. Or at the very least he never had any kind of arm talent (really cannot stress enough how he was drafted super late for a reason). He has never been the QBs QB, Peyton Manning or Aaron Rodgers blow him out of the water in terms of what they could/can make the football do. Brady’s accuracy is fine...ish but he over compensates for defenders by throwing every ball low and away. Therefore when he misses he misses incomplete rather than misses towards a defender. Looks ugly but avoids turnovers. Brady’s QB greatness has always been his reads on defenses, and how he uses his baby blues to pull defenders out of position, not his ability to throw the ball.
agree with all this but also it's getting particularly comical recently. his passes are dying aggressively as of late. like they're being shot by dick cheney, which is also how tom scrambles. no hate though (for tom, dick is a different deal)
Uh.... wtf. First you say that Mahomes might be an average QB because of the system he plays in. Reid schemes his receivers into space to make reads (pun intended) easier/faster. Ok fine, but then you suggest giving Mayfield an Air raid OC would be a good thing. That offense is literally built on the concept of getting receivers into open space to make the game go faster.
I'm personally in agreement that the NFL needs more "college style" offenses to continue the offensive growth we've witnessed the last decade. Lincoln Riley ---> Browns would be dope
im not suggesting that he's "average" so much as im trying to gauge his replaceablity. a lot of quarterbacks can fling it to dudes running absolutely wide open. he's absolutely better at it than most of them. but there is a certain set of outlier skills that makes a quarterback "elite" in the sense that he is difficult to replace. valk's post is a good example: tom brady is almost certainly a mega-outlier at understanding how his offense needs to attack given defenses. there are other skills like this. the accuracy to throw receivers open is one (drew brees comes to mind), elite athleticism too. he may have these, though im highly skeptical of elite athleticism (he isnt that fast) and would give a p good % to reads talent (he gets protections quite well from what i can see, at least). but we dont know, because reid's offense is so well designed and the talent on the offense so capable of winning mus and getting open. arm talent is the one that mahomes has really, really demonstrated, and I was wondering how that informs or extends the offense. it certainly extends throwing windows allowing him more time on the deeper reads.
i would only assign a decent probability to baker having elite accuracy. i suspect if he's going to succeed he's going to need a lot of open throws, and that means air raid. leach is the daddy of that.
for this weekend, find something you like as much as commentators like calling white receivers "mr third down".