Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
Originally posted by Bay2Bay9erAllday:
Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
I was in here talking s**t....but I wasn't relishing it nor was it right away. I was pissed. There was no happiness to be correct.
I wasn't referring to you. I was referring to new posters or or posters that hardly post here. Who knows some of them were probably fans of other teams just coming here to pour salt more salt on the wound. I know your position regarding QB going back to Smith days. You've always been pretty consistent. I also don't see it changing with Lance at QB.
Correct. If Lance is making the same mistakes that Jimmy does after he has been a starter in the league for longer than a couple years, I will be just as harsh on him as I was on Jimmy.
I have always been someone who wont be content with a non-elite QB. If you dont have an elite QB, you should never stop looking for one. If Lance demonstrates that he isnt that guy after given time to grow, I will be the first person to bang the drum looking for a new QB.
I don't see Lance making the same mistakes Jimmy does because they are not even close to he same type
of players. Just like I don't see him making the same mistakes as Smith or Kap for the same reasons.
I remember the Smith days when he would roll out and grow the ball out of bounds instead of gaining his players a chance on 3rd down just to be safe. Which is what I hated they most and why I liked Jimmy more than Alex.
Jimmy took more shots, albeit riskier shots at times. But I wouldn't ever call jimmy risk adverse, at the teams expense, like Smith. One of his main problems was trusting his arm more than he should've at times and being to risky with the ball, or throwing blindly to spots trusting his presnap reads too much.
Trey mistakes would be of a different variety. For example in the Texans game, there was a play in which trey scrambled for on 3rd down and had the first down but ran out of bounds short by a yard. Some might say that it will come with experience but those type of plays should be innate by now. He could have extended the ball or just ran one extra yard for the first (like RW or Josh Allen have been doing since heir rookie years) Instead it's a punt. Same as Alex throwing short of the sticks trying to be safe, instead of giving his WR a chance down field for a first down. Both mistakes at the end of the day but of different variety.
Another play in Texans game, Trey was rolling left and instead of using his athleticism to hit the edge and get a first he throws downfield to a covered Aiyuk and is incomplete. Jimmy would never do that mistake because he doesn't have those tools, but again at the end of he day it's still a mistake.
Also, Jimmy only had like two years of starting experience through the end of 2019 when many turned on him. That would only give Lance until 2023 to learn before being criticized for not being elite.
[ Edited by Bay2Bay9erAllday on Mar 21, 2022 at 5:27 PM ]