ForJimmy

Yeah I think people are taking that "success rate" of 1st round QBs and applying it to elite franchise QBs that they are so desperately wanting. The chance of landing a Burrow or Mahomes with a 1st round pick is slim. I personally wanted us to draft Fields, so I get the desire to have one plus the rookie contact helps a ton, but the chance of us drafting a QB that is better than Baker (average starter) is much more slim than that 50% success rate tells us.

There will be some Huddlers complaining about it too. There always is....

We are going to look so damn good when we lose though!

When channeled properly, that kind of obsession can definitely be a good thing.

Nope. A majority of fans just want to win and until Corral is ready, Baker is more than likely our best shot at that.

I’d say that’s because his off the field issues are the narrative by these journalists. Everyone saw he is a capable QB, but no one saw what happened behind the scenes. Some people that played with him (Corbet), or coached him (Kitchens) feel a need to defend him.

Better roster and a better coaching staff should result in more enjoyable games to watch.

https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/2022/07/08/panthers-g-austin-corbett-baker-mayfield-trade/ Corbet who actually played with Baker seems pretty excited. He was praising Baker before we even traded for him. No unnamed source or speculating analysts, but an actual named first hand source that played right in the huddle with him.

His last year was the most impressive to me. The prior year he had too many INTs. Our guy had that Ole Miss in games against teams with way better rosters in the SECW.

Had it stayed the same as the year before it would have been Rattler/Howell IMO.

Why didn't any other team want Corral? The Seahawks? Nope. I'm just saying you can't say Baker is terrible because no other team wanted him, but Corral is our definite savior when no other teams wanted him (through round 2 at least). Rhule hired McAdoo and his his boss like it or not so he had to approve the Corral trade and the Baker trade. I don't think Rhule is that good but I'm just saying he signed off on both trades.

Put it this way. The same staff that was interested in Baker is the same staff who put a trade together for NE to jump into the 3rd and take Corral despite his character concerns as well.

The Bengals have been a poorly ran franchise and I would take their QB in a heartbeat.

SammyFranchise seems like such a legit poster…

Seriously let's just trade for Pat Mahomes or draft the next Joe Burrow. It can't be that hard right???

They really don’t get it…. Can we get Cousins for a future 5th and only $5 million for one year? If so then we would be all over it. These teams with average (Cousins) and below average (Winston) are just pissed because we got a QB arguably on par (maybe not as good as Cousins but probably better than Winston) for a fraction of what they are paying. Glad too see other teams are thinking about us though.

If Corral outplays them in practice that’s different than Sam IMO. Corral hasn’t proven he can’t start like Sam has and he will only get better (in theory) as the season progresses. So basically I’m ok with a competition between Corral and Mayfield, just not Sam because we already know what he is and it’s not good…

The difference is with Baker you get TDs as well. Not so much with Sam…. Also a chunk of those came from his 2019 season with Kitchens, they have come a good bit down since then.