Much like Reiss, Howe always played it straight and got himself a nice national gig for his troubles. I doubt he cares much about the cool kids table full of hot takers.
Or if they just feel like it's worth playing it safe. I actually put Mac's odds of starting against the Bears at 50-50, maybe a bit less.
A heavy dose of Rham is also great opportunity for believable play action, rain notwithstanding.
In a vacuum, totally agree. I think the offense looks better with him in there. I think it's the right call to stick Mac in there though, he's either going to sink or swim and both scenarios are good. Either way it'll put an end to the QB controversy talk.
Same. I wanted Zappe for one more game. Monday night, bright lights, national game, see how he performs.
If he keeps turning the ball over, Bill will absolutely make the switch.
"Keeps turning the ball over."
If Mac takes care of the ball closer to the way he did last season, it won’t be an issue. If Mac turns it over like he did the first few weeks this season? Yeah, he will get replaced.
I finished my rewatch of the Browns game last night. They did not rotate coverages much at all. Very vanilla on the back end. They gambled with blitzes but the line picked up the pressure well minus Wynn who is really struggling right now. Just for some context.
Yeah they have almost identical numbers (I'm not giving or taking credit for fumble luck so using fumbles plus INT)
Not sure if this is serious or not, but:
Yes, but it was a different offense playing against better teams. It's more than raw numbers.
Oh I think Mac is the better QB and should start, I was just noting that he HAS been turning the ball over a lot (and some trackers think he's actually been lucky on INT throws) and so the poster saying if he "keeps turning it over" Bill will have a decision is probably right. Offfense and opponent matter, but at the same time Mac's performance was still bad and taking care of the ball was a significant problem.
It's not just the first few weeks this season though. Mac's line in his last 9 games:
If this is the case, then we can't also point to his body of work in the first half of the season to discuss how good he is then can we?
Because 3 of those teams were the Bills,#1 defense, they played other very good defenses down the stretch and to start the year (injuries have decimated some of those teams by week 7). Because teams adjusted to Mac mid year and because he was operating in a new offense this year. There are a lot of reasons that he struggled in his last 7-11 games. He might continue to struggle going forward but there are also reasons he could logically pull out of it as he grows. He hasn’t played a ton of football in college or the NFL. He’s going from being conservative to being more aggressive. I think as shitty and annoying as it is to say we need to just be patient and wait. And the waaaaaaaaaaiting is the hardest part!
It's more that circumstances matter. Can't just say Bailey is better based on the stats from two starts.
Never said Bailey was better. I was making the standalone point that Mac hasn't been very good for 9 straight games.
And I don't think anyone is arguing that he has played particularly well over the last 8 games (it's 8 games FYI, not 9 - they went from 9-4 last year to a 10-8 finish, so 5 games, plus 3 this year). I think people are trying to understand why that may have happened, and there is probably some rationalizing to a degree. He did a lot of really exciting and encouraging stuff in the Baltimore game, but it was basically completely offset by several really bad throws / decisions.
He's including the playoff game. Not sure why you would start your nine game analysis right after a seven game winning streak ended but there you have it.
Because he has sucked from that game forward, it's not some magic fuckery. I was pointing out the he's in a slump. I don't know why I'm taking so much heat for this and being called a troll.
10-8 includes the playoff game.
