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Baker prolly shaved for Movember. Grow that caterpillar from scratch. Dirt Squirrel.
Go ahead and take a gander at all the top QB's in the league's INT numbers in their first 3 seasons in the league and then try to tell me 15-7 at the just about the halfway mark is not pretty fucking good...
He's on pace to throw about 32 TD's and 15 INT's...
Those would be impressive statistics the first year in an offense and we don't even know how this looks without the shadow Beckham has been casting. He will only continue to get better and better as he gains more comfort in the system, knowing where his reads should go and the plays that he needs to check into when defenses give him certain looks.
This year is all about learning the system, again he's essentially a rookie... If he can duplicate those year 1 stats where he went 28-14, and actually even improve upon them slightly? How is that not as major major win for us?
Baker is not essentially a rookie. He's not the first QB to learn a new system or play for multiple coaches. How about we stop handling him with kid gloves and hold the #1 overall pick in the draft to a higher standard?
You can't reference his rookie season after he was the #1 overall pick and cherry pick all the good things and two years later say he's essentially a rookie. No. Hold him to the standard that he should be held. #1 overall pick.
He didn't duplicate those 2018 stats last year and before Sunday he wasn't on pace to duplicate them either. Let's wait and see what he does.
Go ahead and take a gander at all the top QB's in the league's INT numbers in their first 3 seasons in the league and then try to tell me 15-7 at the just about the halfway mark is not pretty fucking good...
He's on pace to throw about 32 TD's and 15 INT's...
Those would be impressive statistics the first year in an offense and we don't even know how this looks without the shadow Beckham has been casting. He will only continue to get better and better as he gains more comfort in the system, knowing where his reads should go and the plays that he needs to check into when defenses give him certain looks.
This year is all about learning the system, again he's essentially a rookie... If he can duplicate those year 1 stats where he went 28-14, and actually even improve upon them slightly? How is that not as major major win for us?
Are we trying to talk about if he's been good enough so far this season, or are we trying to talk about if he can still be our franchise QB for the future? Because those are two very different conversations.Baker is not essentially a rookie. He's not the first QB to learn a new system or play for multiple coaches. How about we stop handling him with kid gloves and hold the #1 overall pick in the draft to a higher standard?
You can't reference his rookie season after he was the #1 overall pick and cherry pick all the good things and two years later say he's essentially a rookie. No. Hold him to the standard that he should be held. #1 overall pick.
He didn't duplicate those 2018 stats last year and before Sunday he wasn't on pace to duplicate them either. Let's wait and see what he does.
Baker is not essentially a rookie. He's not the first QB to learn a new system or play for multiple coaches. How about we stop handling him with kid gloves and hold the #1 overall pick in the draft to a higher standard?
You can't reference his rookie season after he was the #1 overall pick and cherry pick all the good things and two years later say he's essentially a rookie. No. Hold him to the standard that he should be held. #1 overall pick.
He didn't duplicate those 2018 stats last year and before Sunday he wasn't on pace to duplicate them either. Let's wait and see what he does.
@Lee your stats teacher would be ashamed of you.Lmao, math isn't your thing. If he has 7 INTs in 7 games and there are 16 games to the season, how is that on pace for 15 INTs? I will give you a minute to check your math and figure this out, lol
PS, also he is on pace to throw 34 TD's or 34.26 to be more specific, lmao. (4 semesters of college stats, I am 100% I am right, but 15 int's you are better than that)
Part of the reason Baker's numbers are worse when targetting OBJ is that the other team's best corner covers OBJ - and usually with the help from a safety or linebacker.
The problem is Baker forces throws, even in that situation, which means the other team has no incentive to cover other receivers. I think that when OBJ is not in the game, for whatever reason, Baker's first move is to read the defense, which lets him find open receivers; whereas, with OBJ, I am pretty confident it is that Baker is trying to anticipate where OBJ is going to be.
Part of the reason Baker's numbers are worse when targetting OBJ is that the other team's best corner covers OBJ - and usually with the help from a safety or linebacker.
The problem is Baker forces throws, even in that situation, which means the other team has no incentive to cover other receivers. I think that when OBJ is not in the game, for whatever reason, Baker's first move is to read the defense, which lets him find open receivers; whereas, with OBJ, I am pretty confident it is that Baker is trying to anticipate where OBJ is going to be.
To be clear, I think the offense is going to be noticeably worse without OBJ. Teams will be able to stack another man in the box and, on passing plays, do what they did to Jarvis two years ago. Stefanski is going to need to be creative with guys like Hunt in order to overcome the extra focus against our run game and shot-passing game.Yet while I agree with you that OBJ does indeed attract that much defensive attention, I am a little salty that some have insisted that the offense is better off without him. No, no, a thousand times no... that kind of attention creates opportunities for other pass catchers and Baker needs to finally take advantage of that attention.
To be clear, I think the offense is going to be noticeably worse without OBJ. Teams will be able to stack another man in the box and, on passing plays, do what they did to Jarvis two years ago. Stefanski is going to need to be creative with guys like Hunt in order to overcome the extra focus against our run game and shot-passing game.