Hairyducked Idiot
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Sociapthatic levels of entitlement isnt necessarily a bad thing when you're looking for elite athletic performance
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Blackhawks 2023-24 Season - Bedard luck this year
Hairyducked Idiot replied to bukie's topic in Other Sports
I think that pick is lottery protected -
In a world where we have 1-2, which isn't *that* farfetched, I'd be willing to extra an absolutely ungodly haul for Williams and take Maye instead. Maybe it ends up turning into another Lawrence/Wilson situation and I go down in ignonimy, but it's a risk I'm willing to take.
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Holy crap, you're right, that's *exactly* who it reminds me of.
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Bagent has this bizarre habit of leaning backwards as he throws, like he's reclining in a couch or shooting a fadeaway. I think it might be literally every throw. You could say 'maybe he was feeling the pressure in his face' or 'well he was dealing with bad snaps.' But watch the throw at 0:30. Perfect snap, Vikings only rush 3 into max protect so he has literally no one within 15 feet of him. He still does it. 0:48 and 1:27 are his best throws and it's not as egregious but he still does it. Leans back, takes a half-step forward but never actually shifts his weight forward, tries to throw it with all arm. That's almost certainly what's causing the inconsistency in both accuracy and velocity, i.e. why he throws so many floaters and ducks. When you're trying to generate all your power from your arm and none from your body, you're going to be inconsistent. I think if they fixed that, there's something there, I can see why they like him. Maybe a career backup, maybe even a bottom-tier starter. I don't think that's something you can fix mid-season though.
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I do like the idea of trading down again with one of our two incoming high picks. The NFL draft.is such a crapshoot and it's so important to hit. Giving yourself multiple firsts every chance you can is a cheat code.
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According to the QB school breakdown, those were option plays and at least one if not two should have been handed off
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There's two game plans to beat a blitz. Screens/draws and hot reads. Fields can't execute hot reads. We ran a lot of screens. I don't have a strong opinion either way on getsy or even eberflus. It's more or less impossible to look competent coaching an offense with bad qb play, and to be honest the defense is starting to sniff around adequacy. Most of the time, griping about playcalling is just talk radio hot takery and the "obvious solutions" wouldn't actually work. I'm fine with firing them all into the sun at the end of the season or even sooner, but I don't think it solves much.
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The YouTube videos are coming out on Bagent. I see the problem now. The scouting report says adequate NFL arm with inconsistent accuracy, but we can all see the ducks and floaters (they're all over his college tape too). Watching them all again, his throwing mechanics are absolutely horror show bad. Almost every throw he made Sunday was with his weight leaning back like a fadeaway, and his feet just go off in random directions as he goes to throw. This would cause the inconsistency in accuracy and velocity. He made some wrong reads but that doesn't bother me. I can kinda see what they see in him. If you cleaned up all the mechanics and got the throws consistent, I can see a credible NFL quarterback, maybe not a starter. But if he's getting playing time this season, either they tell him to go full caretaker mode or he throws a pick once every 8 throws.
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Blackhawks 2023-24 Season - Bedard luck this year
Hairyducked Idiot replied to bukie's topic in Other Sports
I would be shocked if statistics didn't say 1 with 6.2, but emotionally it feels close -
Blackhawks 2023-24 Season - Bedard luck this year
Hairyducked Idiot replied to bukie's topic in Other Sports
That was an entertaining win. -
Blackhawks 2023-24 Season - Bedard luck this year
Hairyducked Idiot replied to bukie's topic in Other Sports
Up 3-1 in Toronto isn't a bad feeling at all. -
If you want a placeholder QB while a rookie sits, then bring in a veteran. You can't subject your team to Justin Fields if you aren't dreaming on his ceiling.
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Blackhawks 2023-24 Season - Bedard luck this year
Hairyducked Idiot replied to bukie's topic in Other Sports
Korchinski looks like he's capable of sticking -
Bears are hoping fields can avoid surgery and waiting for the swelling to go down to assess the severity. "Doubtful" for next week.
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I said this was a tipping point game and boy was it. If fields is out for any real length of time, then going 1-2 with Carolina goes from a tunny dream scenario to shockingly plausible
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That was forced by defenses getting better.
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If Bagent gets a full start, I would set the o/u on turnovers at 3.5. He doesn't have the arm to hit the windows he wants to hit against NFL ones. I'd set it higher if it wasn't for the likelihood they rein him in after the first couple of picks. Switching from fields to him is like switching from driving into a ditch to driving into oncoming traffic
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This is what I was worried about with fields' big games. You found something that worked and then ran it again five days later in the short week. What happens when defenses had time to adapt and forced you to do something else? You have to be good at a few different things because NFL defenses are pretty good at taking one thing away and forcing you to do something else. Whenever he sees the field again, whether it be next week or next month, maybe he can adapt. I'm not optimistic but I won't rule it out. I only like Bagent for giving a demonstration of what an actual NFL dropback and release should look like. I don't actually want him to be anything more than a backup long-term and he's barely got the arm for that. The defense low-key had an acceptable game
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Fields dislocated thumb. Tried to pop it back in and play but couldn't grip ball. MRI tomorrow.
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I still think we have the potential to play ourselves into a few tank-killing wins, but I don't see how Carolina doesn't finish bottom 3 minimum.
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Not completely. They were getting absolutely destroyed by the blitz. A good QB can neutralize the blitz with quick hits, and Fields did absolutely zero of that, but he didn't have a chance to do his full hop-hop-hop most of the time. Then came one key play where they showed heavy blitz but dropped into a full protection, fooled the crap outta fields and he froze his hop hop hop and took a hit where he got hurt.
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I don't think so, I think it just slipped out of his hands. I wanna say it was the right read and decision, but that's some real "other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?" energy.
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What Bagent is: A perfect test case for showing why Fields has very specific flaws that make the rest of the offense look way worse than it is. What Bagent is not: An actually good QB
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I don't know if Bagent is better than Fields as a whole. I do think his dropback and release are so much quicker and cleaner that it really emphasizes how bad Fields is at those things.
