didn't he give an interview where he literally said he didn't give a fuck about the fans or the team? Aside from that he seemed to be full of nothing but platitudes. Like he had a -2 charisma modifer. He'd say the right things and no one would buy it.Im mean, im out of the loop. Besides the Lets Ride meme shit and shitty coaching, what happened to make Russ so hated?
I'm not sure I see that Wilson is a better option than Mayfield. I mean, maybe he's asking for a crazy amount of money, but he's much younger and he showed some pretty good success last year with an offensive line that wasn't that good. I don't think Wilson is going to come there and play better.
Dude is so underrated - hes going to end up top 5 in every stat pretty much and people still act like Julio was better. Evans has had, what, 3 years of GOOD QB play in his career and is an all timer. Imagine if he would have had a decade of Matt Ryan or Matt Stafford.
He had 5~ish years of Jameis "Send It!" Winston and 6 straight seasons (2017-2022) of the Bucs being top 5 in passing yards, 5 of those years being #1 or #2. He was a massive part of it and bailed Winston out so many times. I dread to think what his INT's would have been without Evans.
edit: Also fuck no to Wilson, I'll pass. The team gelled nicely over the course of the season, rather give Baker at least one more year.
Then he started getting butthurt about not getting any MVP votes and convinced Pete to open up the offense and let him throw the ball more which made it clear that he couldn't see the field because he was throwing tons of picks while also being too beat up to run around like he used to.
I don't have stats but it was during the "let Russ cook" experiment. Throwing from the pocket means throwing to where receivers are going to be and reading defenders to know that the players are going to be open at that spot. If you watch a legit pocket quarterback they are very often letting go of the ball before the receiver even comes out of his break and deciding where to throw by which way a safety or linebacker takes his first couple of steps. If you can't do that, but you can run around and buy time then the defense breaks down and you can just see the guy is open and throw to him. You don't throw a lot of picks playing like that because you don't have to use as much timing and anticipation. The problem is you need to be quick and agile enough to stay away from the Watts and Bosas of the world while you're waiting for your guy to get wide open and that gets harder and harder to do the older you get and the more sacks you take.You can blame the sacks on his lack of field vision but in what season did he throw a ton of picks that was wildly inconsistent with the run heavier offenses (accounting for higher volume)? Seems like pretty consistent play with normal variation, certainly so in his Seattle years.
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Russell Wilson has never been careless with throwing the ball. He's #8 all time in interception percentage. He would rather take a sack than force the pass in a lot of situations and that's certainly a problem but he never was throwing tons of picks. His year with the most is also the one with the most touchdowns and yardage and was sandwiched by three pretty low interception seasons.
To give Russ some credit, I don't know if I've ever seen anyone more elusive than Wilson in his prime. The number of times I thought we had him dead to rights for a sack and he somehow weaseled out of it and then completed a pass down field made him frustrating as hell to play against. I'm sure plenty of defensive players and coordinators have laid awake nights thinking about it.
I thought your first paragraph was talking about Winston at first, not Wilson.Wilson never learned to see