Bear Hands

He has strong placement when it's still something within the first 2 reads. He's got a strong football IQ so when he knows where he needs to hit someone for anticipation, he can do it well on a slant or seam. But once he's making progressions and has time, he's not leading downfield (at the perimeter in particular). The outside ball placement is where he falls off majorly.

Bring out the QB checklist, just run through it and see what jumps out to you Accuracy/Placement Decision Making Pocket Presence Arm Strength Readings/Progressions Mechanics Footwork Football IQ Mobility Elusiveness Physical Toughness Mental Toughness Leadership

At the end of the day, as fans, you want two things in rooting for an NFL team: 1-wins 2-A fun to watch product It's year 3 so positions are hardened/even more difficult to sway for Bryce. And the debate it tired. And it's still not that much fun to watch. Fans are in the sh*t or get off the pot mode, because honestly, it's a boring product. He's not a scrambler, he doesn't have the cannon, we don't have burners...we don't really have any superstars. *Potential in McMillan. Thing is, I think he's close to a year-4 lock due to Tepper and circumstances. Winning cures all so that's path A. Path B, we end up between 8 to 6 wins but he still is in this middle-ish/debatable ground, we have a 4th go-around but with a different backup plan. Path C, the wheels fall off, there is no year 4. Path B seems likely so brace yourselves.

He wouldn't be doing what he's doing without Abdul Carter, Thibs, & Dex. The concentration is off him and he can use his limited moveset on single-teamed strong sides.

The guy that looked like Kevin Costner was the wild one

They built the right supporting cast and landed a great coach. Drafted the wrong QB but a guy like Jones is thriving. It’s fun to see

I imagine the tip toeing/hop stepping thing from gun he does is pretty painful with this.

2018. We haven't had many outside of Cam (5). Jake only had 2, Beuerlein 1 (36*record).

There goes our hope we were finally gonna see our first QB since Cam hit the 20 passing TD mark

I remember the HAS's used to knock out guys like 4+ weeks. Mahomes had one that caused him to miss 6 games in 2019. Dak 11 the following year from one as well.

If we can pull off even just one of these games, it would show well for this team and give me some faith we're trending in the right direction.

Most people that draft wanted Sewell and if not available, Slater was 1B. Fields, Devonta Smith and Parsons definitely had their contingents but plenty wanted to stay away. But not many were targeting DBs until it got leaked a few weeks before the draft that we were locked in on corners (Surtain & Horn) Interesting factoid though is Horn has caught up to Slater and has only played 7 less games than him. It's starting to look like a pick that was fine. It was a tough pill to swallow with his injuries but he seems to be on a good streak right now (knocking on the largest timber I can find)

I don't think there's much to even panic trade for which is the good news. Just from a numbers perspective with Bryce out, we will likely sign someone. Hooker is not good. Like at all. We're looking at probably Heinecke, CJ Beathard, Jake Fromm, etc.

We've got a ton of division games still on the schedule which are always chippy, and its where we could carve out a few more wins. But looking at the others, it's a pretty heavy hitting schedule. Bills and Pack have had some issues recently, but regardless, they're contenders. Bills, BOFA, Oct 26 Packers, at Lambeau Field, Nov 2 49ers, in SF, Nov 24 LA Rams, BOFA, Nov 30 Seahawks, BOFA, Dec 28 Is our expectation losses in all of these? Which one do y'all think we have the best shot against?

Stefan LeFors babay

Ricky Stanzi & Blaine Gabbert

This conversation can be had without Bryce even being involved. He's likely out next week, Dalton has been bad, and Hooker (as fun as his college highlights are), is not NFL quality. We likely need to pick up a FA. Heinecke is available...just saying

Dalton is shot at this point. We need to find a guy if Young is missing time. We're 4-3 and have some momentum. I'll throw out Jarrett Stidham or Tanner McKee.

Brown 2 sacks, Scourton 1.5, Princely 0.5 Good shiit

I was referencing at this point in the season

6 years!!

Honestly, given how the 2020s have been for this franchise, it doesn't matter what it looks like. We have a winning record after 7 games. Hasn't been the case since 2019 lol

Pie

win

If I had to parse it out, there's still a good to bad scale for both the centerpiece QB and complimentary types. The idea isn't that they're all elite, but have the traits so that the teams are built for them, rather than them just being inserted in. Some just don't lift the team enough, others do (Allen/Mahomes/etc.). But it can be a gradual process (not always instant) where maybe they started as complimentary early and grew into a stud the team eventually built around. Centerpiece: Josh Allen Patrick Mahomes Matthew Stafford Lamar Jackson Joe Burrow Justin Herbert Jayden Daniels Drake Maye Dak Prescott CJ Stroud Trevor Lawrence Caleb Williams Jordan Love Kyler Murray (worst of this bunch) Complimentary Brock Purdy Jalen Hurts Dillon Gabriel Tua Unsure So-far: Jaxon Dart Michael Penix JJ McCarthy Bo Nix Cam Ward Vet who was inserted and then sorta built-around: Jared Goff Baker Mayfield Sam Darnold Daniel Jones