The only reason this wasnt a solid A game for baker was that pick in the 4th quarter. That lowered him in my book to a B+. He had 1.5 what i would consider significant mistakes. The INT and the grounding (which while technically grounding ive seen happen 100 times and almost never is a QB called for it) and the rest of the game was clean.Not at all. What do you disagree with?
Baker was concerning. I didn't like what I saw. I saw a guy who stares down reads and still fails to see the field. If his target beats man coverage, he's got the ability to put that ball right where it needs to be. But like we saw on that interception, if there's a lurker or a zone that he's throwing into, he often doesn't see it.
I'm not calling him a lost cause. These are fixable, teachable things. I hope that being put in a situation that plays to his strengths will put him in a position where he can grow and improve, which we really didn't get a chance to see him do last year. Whether it was Kitchens, Monken, the team disaster, his own discipline... or all of the above, he appeared to regress last year. Besides not improving reads and being a professional QB, his accuracy was worse than year one.
Obviously it's a nice result. I'll take a Browns win on a Thursday night ten times out of ten. But for evaluating Baker moving forward, sometimes you have to separate what he actually did from the results.
Also, me bringing up the flaws I saw doesn't mean I'm ignoring the positives. I just think we know that he's accurate, strong armed, and can make big plays so there's no point to preface any post talking about the areas he needs to improve with those things.
What's your take?
The only reason this wasnt a solid A game for baker was that pick in the 4th quarter. That lowered him in my book to a B+. He had 1.5 what i would consider significant mistakes. The INT and the grounding (which while technically grounding ive seen happen 100 times and almost never is a QB called for it) and the rest of the game was clean.
Besides that he was accurate- 70% completion rate, made quick reads, and hit the big play when he needed to. He wasnt ask to win the game instead he was ask to be a competent QB, and thats exactly what he was. His 9.5 Y/A over a full season would have ranked him 2nd in the NFL from last year. Not sure what game you were watching, maybe it was a replay of last week? but the rest of us saw the same QB from 2018 that could actually be a franchise QB
The only reason this wasnt a solid A game for baker was that pick in the 4th quarter. That lowered him in my book to a B+. He had 1.5 what i would consider significant mistakes. The INT and the grounding (which while technically grounding ive seen happen 100 times and almost never is a QB called for it) and the rest of the game was clean.
Besides that he was accurate- 70% completion rate, made quick reads, and hit the big play when he needed to. He wasnt ask to win the game instead he was ask to be a competent QB, and thats exactly what he was. His 9.5 Y/A over a full season would have ranked him 2nd in the NFL from last year. Not sure what game you were watching, maybe it was a replay of last week? but the rest of us saw the same QB from 2018 that could actually be a franchise QB
I'm not sure I've seen a player look more washed on defense. It's like we're playing with 10 guys out there.
Where's my informative rating?
Yeah and on top of that it was clear as day he was going through his reads extremely fast the whole game.
I think he started like 9/10 or something like that? Rafters wasn’t watching the same football game I don’t think.
The craziest thing is I think Goodson and Takitaki might both be worse than Sendejo. Goodson was getting picked on by a rookie QB and backup TEs all second half. Guy can’t cover anything.
I just watched the highlights. Burrow is good. Nobody can run on us. Coach got his first win, and that is the same amount of wins Hue had in 30 games.
plenty to work on, and that’s no surprise. We had no preseason and new coaching. Plenty to be excited about as well.
we should beat Washington. We should beat most ground attack teams. Excited that we actually won a game and really we need to go 2-1 here, off the short week, plenty of time to prep, against a very beatable team.