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We have seen both players play as starting QBs in this league. It’s pointless to see who practices better. Say we acquired Stafford last year (extreme case obviously). Are we going to let PJ Walker start over him if he lights up practice? Baker is an established starter and Sam has established himself as not fit to start. He can light up practice but will see ghosts when the real game starts.

Sam looked decent in camp. He has the tools and if he knows the exact script he can look the part. The problems arise when he doesn’t know what the defenses are doing (which happens a lot). We know how both players play in real games which is all that matters.

Because how Sam looks in practice isn’t going to be how he plays in a live game. I don’t think it matters because we wouldn’t have made this trade if we planned on playing Sam.

Darnold will look decent until he sees a real defense. It’s pointless to have a TC competition with him when the entire NFL knows he struggles in real game decisions.

This. Darnold taking reps from Corral as the 2 would be a waste. Darnold isn’t a starting QB in this league. Corral might be.

Wilks is legit! That was our low key best staff hire outside of maybe Campen…

At least it will be very easy to walk away if he fails. No future 2nd and $18.5 million dollar extension.

You are going to have a hard time convincing anyone Baker is better than Burrow right now....

He is only 14?!?!?!?! Damn...

They have talent, but CJ Henderson really needs to show something this year. Providing Horn lives up to expectations, he and DJax should be a nice 1 and 2 plus Woods will free up Chinn. I think the concern is the run defense.

Robbie should like this “All Carolina had to give up was a 2024 conditional fifth-round pick that could become a fourth-rounder based on playing time and roughly $5 million in salary,” Spielberger writes. “Since Mayfield and Darnold were taken with the No. 1 and No. 3 overall picks in the 2018 Draft, Mayfield has earned an 80.0 passing grade compared to Darnold’s 58.5. He has a 6.1% big-time-throw rate (6th) compared to Darnold’s 3.6% (51st).”

Yeah exactly. You can win and be competitive as long as you have decent play from the position. Darnold was far from decent. Jake at the middle of the pack go to as many Super Bowls and an elite talent like Cam did for us. People seem stuck on this we have to get a top 5 QB on suck until we do...

That has so many variables in it to really worry about. 1. How good did HE play? Was it lighting it up and our defense letting him down? 2. What kind of contract is being offered? Mid level? Top 10? Getting us past 5 wins will be a good start. Helps us become somewhat respectable so the Staffords, Russ Wilsons, Watsons (thank God we dodged that) will actually consider us if another becomes available. Also we can just trade up and grab a top rated QB if we find one we like like the Chiefs did with Mahomes or the Niners are attempting with Lance. Staying at the bottom of the NFL and trying to draft one CAN work, but it also can turn into us with Cam's Panthers (good QB with not enough cast), Stafford with the Lions, Texans with Carr, Bengals with Palmer, Goff with the Rams, Bradford with the Rams, JaMarcus with the Raiders, Winston with the Bucs even Lawrence struggled with the Jags (jury is still out, but he didn't look like the next Andrew Luck last year). Trying to land a Burrow or Manning will be an extremely rare occurrence IMO. Build a team to win and be as competitive as possible and when the opportunity comes to acquire a talented QB pounce on it. That just seems more likely IMO then trying to stay at the bottom of the league until we find an elite QB.

If he blows then he walks into FA without costing us any more money. That’s one of the best parts about this trade IMO.

Give me 2020 Robbie and I’ll be happy. 21 Robbie wasn’t worth the headache…

True but I refuse to watch his shitty movie.

True. I think his team bought in/tolerated it more in college because they kept winning. Acting like an ass on a losing team doesn’t work in the locker room.

Nick Foles looks like he is trying to break that chart.

This is it right here. If he fails we will be off the hook and only lose a future 4th/5th in 2024. His last healthy year he was top 10 in QBR, so there is definitely some potential there. Virtually no risk with a chance of reward…

Wait? He hates dogs??

We all know Corral will try to play through whatever injuries he will get like he did in college as well. Our medical staff better be keeping on eye on these players.

Didn't realize he also had a foot injury on his planting foot to go with his shoulder injury last year. The Browns should have held him out after those injuries. He is lucky his shoulder didn't get more severely injured taking hits. Reminds me of us letting Cam play through all kinds of injuries. These guys are on another level for competitiveness and the doctors/staff need to step in.

Nah I find it amusing how triggered you get by this. I come here to talk about football. You come to cry about your feelings. You might want to see a therapist instead….