Originally posted by genus49:
Originally posted by PopeyeJonesing:
His stats are just bad instead of horrible over these last two weeks because Mostert took a screen pass 90 yards to the house.
His accuracy has been downright atrocious, and even when he can get the ball inside the receiver's radius his ball placement has been a mess.
That's being overly harsh. He's a rookie trying to work on picking up a pretty complicated offense. He's done very well and some of those throws will get there.
And if you're taking away plays you can also give him some back for guys dropping passes or giving them away for a pick.
I'm not saying he'll never be worthy of being the #2, I'm just saying that after these last two weeks I think it's a big mistake to trust him as the #2 behind a fragile QB like Hoyer.
That he's a rookie who is trying to pick up a complicated offense is just more reason to not trust him as the #2.
TBF though it's not his decision making that bothers me (i.e. rookie in complicated offense), it's his accuracy and ball placement.
And I'm more than happy to assign his pick to Goodwin if you want, as long as your willing to accept that almost half of his total passing yards and his only passing TD across a full game of play these last two weeks are from a screen pass that as a QB he gets literally zero credit for.
And not to push too hard on it because I do think Goodwin is to blame for the INT, but if Beathard's ball placement on that throw (which wasn't a hard one) wasn't so bad Goodwin wouldn't have given up that ball to begin with.
