One thing I'm wondering is if Brady's arm strength limited play calls last year (his accuracy seemed off from his usual other worldly self to my eye).
After Week 14 corresponds to when Dorsett (their only fast WR) basically stopped playing. Sanu is slow, Harry isn't a speed guy and was pretty bad. Gordon was gone. They actually threw to Edelman a fair bit but that's not his game. TE obviously had nothing downfield happening. I don't know why you'd attribute this to Brady rather than what was going on around him.
You're probably completely correct.. I thought his accuracy on short passes was off more than normal this year and his long passes for the most part just looked as though they had no shot. And seemed to get worse as the season progressed (but that probably had a lot to do with who he had at receiver as well).
My point is that a plan where step one is "find a cheap but solid QB" is like a business plan where the first step is "first, have a million dollars." Teams can spend a decade looking for it.
Zero chance they trade for him. However, if IND decides 15 million is too much for a backup, i could see them taking a one year flyer
A healthy Newton is special in a way that none of the other options are ... and if they're serious about running the ball, the element he adds would elevate the entire offense.
They have no money for someone like Cam Newton who will still want to be paid. I would rather roll with Stidham over a declining Cam Newton.
I think the problem is you never know what will happen above you with QBs and so you need to wait for the day of. Even if you think the fourth guy on the board — Eason in this case I guess — will be there at 10 you just are never safe where QBs are concerned.
Imagine if BB signed Jameis and his Lasik surgery reduces the turnovers and he wins a SB? Taste the W indeed.
I wouldn't want to go in that direction, but Winston has gobs of talent. He makes a ton of errors of course, which is why I wouldn't want him. But oodles (yes, gobs and oodles) of talent. If he could be had fairly cheaply, he might offer significantly more upside than Stidham. And he's still young.
This is a great video. Thanks.
Will there even be an NFL training camp this year? Definitely no rookie camps.
Can you even buy actual wine coolers these days, as opposed to the malt liquor w/fruit swill that people don't realize aren't wine coolers?
The Patriots have a plan? I think anyone that's watched a football game in the last 20 years could have deduced that.
Hide your heart girl.
What do you mean by “people aren’t serious about Winston”? For me, I mentioned that he has tons of talent but that I wouldn’t want them to sign him. So does that count as “being serious about Winston”?
Bortles could be pretty good. As a comp, he was basically the exact same QB as Dak Prescott for about 20+ games encompassing the 2017 season and the first half of 2018. Then Dak improved while Bortles fell off a cliff.
He certainly has a talent for throwing the ball to the wrong team. Can you imagine going from the accurate efficiency of Brady to Winston? Yikes.
Bortles signed a $1 mil contract to be the Rams backup QB last year. {Yes, he was still getting checks from the Jaguars.}
