They should just host the SB in Vegas every year now.
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It really depends what your goal is. If you are championship or bust, then youâre probably right. But if you prefer stability with an outside shot at a title if everything breaks right then youâre probably better with a solid QB than rolling the dice with the draft.
It the debate Iâm hearing in Washington right now - assuming they canât get Rodgers/Wilson/etc. - should they grab a Jimmy G level guy and aim for the playoffs or roll the dice with a bad QB class and hope to get lucky. Not sure there is a right answer as Jimmy G unlikely to get you a title, but even being consistently mediocre would be a nice change.
You can also bring in a guy like Foles who from a cost-value standpoint might be better than say a Kirk Cousins or than Daniel Jones on a second contract⌠Or you can trade for a high draft pick who washed out with a shitty coaching staff and roll the dice, or one who is stuck behind an established guy.
I think in todayâs age, teams are too afraid of risk at the QB position and overspend accordingly.
The Rams route was interesting because they had the team built already and just plugged the QB in, so as long as they could squeeze the contract in for a couple years, they had the talent there.
itâs not the QBâs who are overpaid relative to value ffs
Or where the home city might make it there again.
London
Having a decent QB who canât get you over the hump but will keep you from embarrassment is beneficial for the GM and Head Coach from a job preservation perspective. So you have to go beyond what might make sense for the team in terms of rolling the dice and what makes sense in the personal interests in the decision makers.
Like Carolinaâs move to Darnold was something of a gamble on his perceived upside relative to his cost but since he sucked every other mistake Rhule and company made is magnified and they look completely lost.
stolen from a youtube comment but
Could you imagine telling a Browns fan that a team from Ohio and OBJ both would make the Super Bowl this season
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I wonder if Mahomesâ career would look pretty much like Staffordâs if he went to the Lions or Browns.
No. He is elite. He would have won at least 1 playoff game or 1 division title
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What if heâs drafted by NE and sits behind Brady for 3 years?
Or gets brutalized for a few years amid mild success
I always think of Kurt Warner. 27 and out of football. 1st year: MVP and SB win
Itâs like the Nhl and goaltending. No one really knows anything until they do it
But maybe heâs only elite because he came into the perfect situation - sitting for a year, learning under Smiff, being developed by Reid.
Mahomes was good at Texas Tech, but not elite enough to become a consensus #1.
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Maybe he could have been RG3. A desperate team throwing him out there stupidly.
Canât help but wonder what Mahomes would have been under Wash, and RG3 would have been under KC
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wait why is this available now? I wonder if this is an elaborate hoax. If true the part of Franco Harris catching the ball before it hits the ground is confirmed. Still not sure about the initial Tatum/Fuqua touch.
How do you see the ball touching the ground confirmed in that video?
I wrote the opposite. Maybe my wording is unclear. There are two issues with the Immaculate Reception:
a) who touched the ball when it was deflected back towards the line of scrimmage. I donât recall the rules or what the implication is if the Raider Tatum touched it before the Steeler Fuqua or vice versa in the case where both touched it. I do believe if only Fuqua touched it then Harris (or any other Steeler) would not be able to legally catch it.
b) did Harris catch it before it touched the ground. I think this tape shows fairly clearly that Harris indeed caught it before it hit the ground.
The controversy with the Immaculate Reception wasnât that the ball hit the ground. At the time the rules were that a forward pass couldnât be touched by two offensive players in a row (like no tipping the ball to your teammate). So if it only hit Fuqua and not Tatum when it was deflected then it wouldnât have been a legal catch. I think this is what John Madden and the Raiders always contended afterward. I think there is no definitive camera angle showing whether Tatum had any contact with the ball
Speaking of Steelers, Brian Flores is going to coach the linebackers and be senior defensive assistant. Seems like a good move for them, both in terms of kissing up to Goodell and getting a quality coach for a role where he is way overqualified.
Yeah I would say the bigger issue is at the Fuqua/Tatum ball contact, but there was also the question of the ball hitting the ground before Harris caught it.