Hairyducked Idiot
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I think trading down from 9 is fine and extremely likely, but staying put wouldn't upset me at all. There's some really good offensive talent that's going to drop to about there because of the run on QBs
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D/p
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Williams.
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Good thing Tomlin is known for being exceptional at working with guys Wilson is a significantly better QB than his backup. This isn't a murky situation at all.
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Yes. He wasn't that bad in Denver, he was just clashing with the coach. He put up 3000 passing yards with 26 TDs and 8 INTs, for a 98 passer rating. The only way fields sniffs a snap is if he gets hurt
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This you?
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Which, again, puts him on an even footing with the much revered sandberg
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This. Sammy Sosa is probably a bad person like most athletes but a lot of people dislike him for reasons that aren't specific to that
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I believe they took a lesser offer about as much as I believed they weren't in talks, that the price around the combine was a second-round pick, or that the bears weren't going to make a move until they had Williams medicals. There's been fake leaks to protect fields at every step of the process.
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Some weaknesses from Caleb Williams pre-draft scouting report: Wait my mistake, that's Patrick Mahomes' pre-draft scouting report
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I would like to see Williams improve his quick decision making. I've never seen a college qb who didn't need to improve their quick decision making to succeed in the NFL. Nobody is running pro-complexity offenses against pro-complexity defenses. I hate the "wait you're saying he has flaws?! But Justin Fields has flaws too, doesn't that make them the same?!" thing some people are trying to pull. But he absolutely does have flaws. He's got the tools to run the sort of quick hit timing plays but he hasn't shown a ton of it on his tape.
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Yeah, Fields' problem was never as simple as "he holds the ball too long." Several very good QBs hold the ball similar lengths of time. Fields' problem (well, one of two problems) is that he can't process what he's seeing quickly enough, and one of the many symptoms of that problem is that he would frequently fail to pull the trigger on plays, causing his time to throw to balloon. It's the difference between having a high K-rate because you're working counts and taking walks too, or having a high K-rate because you can't hit anything.
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He has some ball security issues in the way he holds it that are simlar to fields, that's it.
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I am extremely hyped for Williams. I think that the range of outcomes on prospects like him suggests that there's at *least* a 75% chance he's the best QB we've ever had (which isn't saying much). I would rather he hit his upside and become Patrick Mahomes 2.0, but if he turns out to be Baker Mayfield or Kyler Murray, that's still an upgrade at the most important position.
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It does seem likely that poles overplayed the market a little, but the trades of Pickett and ridder and Howell and Jones *did* show us fields' value and it's about the same as those guys. This is the price for a busted first rounder at the end of his rookie deal going to take a backup job
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I believe that poles turned down a better offer about as much as I believed that fields was getting a second, that he didn't shop fields over the combine, or that we were waiting for Williams' medicals. It was the latest in a series of obvious lies the last few weeks to protect fields' reputation as the league thoroughly rejected him as a starter
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https://xkcd.com/154/
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Wouldn't have changed the outcome. He'd just have had a Trubisky 2018 season
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Older people care when it's players they were already inclined to dislike. When mantle and Aaron admit to ped usage, they suddenly stop caring
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Obviously I hope for more, but even if he's just Kyler Murray he's the best qb we've ever had
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I'm old enough to remember when saying Justin Fields had a slow processor was racist
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Because teams would rather have a "do nothing/hurt nothing" game manager as a backup
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Most first round QBs bust, and the price for a bust going into his fourth year is a late round pick. It's not that deep.
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Conditional kicks in if he takes 51% of offensive snaps
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I'm certainly pretty amused. I didn't think I was overly optimistic about his reputation in the league, but apparently I was. He was by all accounts a good teammate and obviously a phenomenal athlete, but he was one of the worst I've ever seen at the most fundamental aspect of the job: deciding where the ball should go at NFL speed. From the obvious stuff like being the easiest QB to sack in NFL history statistically, to the subtle failures like failing to pull an option and letting his rb eat an obvious run blitzer, fields has made everyone in the building on the offensive side of the ball look worse for three years. He wasn't an ok starter who golly gee we would love to keep but we just happen to have this no. 1 pick. He was an awful starter who was bad at superficial statistics and even worse when you dig in, like a .230 hitting outfielder with 20 hrs and 90 rbis but terrible defensively with a .275 obp. He had the same trade value as Mac Jones and less than Kenny Pickett because that's who he belongs with Good luck in Pittsburgh, and good luck to Pittsburgh
