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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71800 on: March 17, 2024, 12:28:55 am »
I like Fields, think he's talented but raw, & has not been helped that the Bears are a dysfunctional organisation, plus the Steelers have give up peanuts to sign him.

I'm just not sure he's good enough at actually throwing the ball. which is kind of important.

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71801 on: March 17, 2024, 12:39:32 am »
I'm just not sure he's good enough at actually throwing the ball. which is kind of important.

I think he's an improvement on last seasons Steelers QB corp, it cost the Steelers a conditional 2025 6th round pick [apparently the Steelers have 3, 7 round draft picks in 2025], rising to 4th round pick depending on how many games Fields plays in 2024, handy backup to Wilson, Steelers basically gave up nothing for Wilson & Fields.

What a wild week it's been in trades & free agency.
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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71802 on: March 17, 2024, 12:50:19 am »
I think he's an improvement on last seasons Steelers QB corp, it cost the Steelers a conditional 2025 6th round pick [apparently the Steelers have 3, 7 round draft picks in 2025], rising to 4th round pick depending on how many games Fields plays in 2024, handy backup to Wilson, Steelers basically gave up nothing for Wilson & Fields.

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I'm sure that's true, but I can't help but wonder what the point is. is justin fields or 2024 russell wilson going to win you a super bowl?

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71803 on: March 17, 2024, 12:53:05 am »
I'm sure that's true, but I can't help but wonder what the point is. is justin fields or 2024 russell wilson going to win you a super bowl?

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71804 on: March 17, 2024, 01:44:52 am »
I'm just not sure he's good enough at actually throwing the ball. which is kind of important.

He was actually okay at that part of the game, his main failing was more on the decision-making side of things.

Shame he didn't work out, but a bigger shame that at least some of the compensation for him isn't in this draft where the Bears are light on picks.

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71805 on: March 17, 2024, 09:54:08 am »
He was actually okay at that part of the game, his main failing was more on the decision-making side of things.

Shame he didn't work out, but a bigger shame that at least some of the compensation for him isn't in this draft where the Bears are light on picks.
And he just didn't seem to be improving in that respect - he was an incredibly frustrating player to watch a lot of the time. Still, it feels like the Bears are in a better position for a rookie QB now than they have been in a long time, so hopefully this latest role of the dice will work out.

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71806 on: March 17, 2024, 10:18:03 am »
He was actually okay at that part of the game, his main failing was more on the decision-making side of things.

Shame he didn't work out, but a bigger shame that at least some of the compensation for him isn't in this draft where the Bears are light on picks.

I didn't mean the actual mechanics, I don't really know enough to be able to criticise someone for that.

Anyway it's all good. The nfl hype machine won't really like it though because it makes the #1 draft pick obvious now. Though I'm sure some will try and put some doubt out there.

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71807 on: March 17, 2024, 10:32:28 am »
The NFL as a whole must not rate Fields. Getting a conditional 6th pick for him suggests there’s  a general consensus he isn’t anywhere near a starting NFL quality QB. Interesting because I think there’s a proportion of the NFL fanbase who not only see him as a starter, they seem him as potential star quality.

The 2021 Draft QB class was lauded as being loaded. Think 5 QBs were picked in 1st 15 picks. Only 1 is still with the team that picked them. Wilson, Lance, Wilson and Jones are all going to be back ups in 2024. Only Lawrence is a starter still. Lawrence has had a difficult 3 seasons also. Urban Meyer in Year 1 and injuries in Year 3 haven’t helped but I think even Lawrence has underwhelmed so far given his college rep.
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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71808 on: March 17, 2024, 10:41:22 am »
the lawrence star definitely faded a bit last season.

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71809 on: March 17, 2024, 10:53:30 am »
the lawrence star definitely faded a bit last season.

I don’t watch college football much so when players come into the NFL I’m not likely to have see any player much at all. I have no preconceived idea of their abilities generally. I’m also a bit skeptical of the draft and how college football translates to NFL. It’s crapshoot that only get worse outside the Top 20 picks. But it’s one you need to hit on for cap reasons.

I get the impression that some fans and NFL executives put a disproportionate amount of weight on college performance and draft position, way beyond the key time of the draft. People rate players picked high in the draft years afterwards. That happens for high and low draft picks.

If you asked how close in ability and performance Fields and Purdy are, I reckon it’d be close to an even split. That’s despite Purdy being absolutely miles better than Fields in the NFL. We’ve even had people in this thread suggesting the 49ers should go after Fields. That can’t be based on NFL performance. It’s got to be a disproportionate weight being still put on their college career.


I think Lawrence is a bit like that. I think he’s a Top15-20 QB. I wouldn’t have him Top 10 based on his 3 NFL seasons. I reckon loads of people would though. Based on rep and his Clemson performances years ago.
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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71810 on: March 17, 2024, 11:13:32 am »
If you asked how close in ability and performance Fields and Purdy are, I reckon it’d be close to an even split. That’s despite Purdy being absolutely miles better than Fields in the NFL. We’ve even had people in this thread suggesting the 49ers should go after Fields. That can’t be based on NFL performance. It’s got to be a disproportionate weight being still put on their college career.
I'd like to see how Brock Purdy would of looked on The Chicago Bears instead of playing with an All Pro team on the 49ers now That Fields is on The Steelers he will develop into a top five QB in the league.

As for Purdy I think he's gonna massively regress next season and I think he's destined to become backup QB who bounces around the league sitting on team's benches lol

The sooner The fan base realise Purdy is a fraud the better because that Super bowl drought will sadly reach 50 years 😔😔😔
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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71811 on: March 17, 2024, 12:22:19 pm »
I'd like to see how Brock Purdy would of looked on The Chicago Bears instead of playing with an All Pro team on the 49ers now That Fields is on The Steelers he will develop into a top five QB in the league.

As for Purdy I think he's gonna massively regress next season and I think he's destined to become backup QB who bounces around the league sitting on team's benches lol

The sooner The fan base realise Purdy is a fraud the better because that Super bowl drought will sadly reach 50 years 😔😔😔


Interesting PoV. You may well end up being correct.

Just a few Q’s though :

what evidence is there from the NFL career only that Fields is a Top 5 QB?

Why don’t you think most teams didn’t try and trade for Fields? and why was his value ultimately dictated as a Rd4 or Rd6 draft pick?

How important do you think a QB is in an offense?

With a good scheme and playmakers at TE, RB and WR can you elevate a back up QB to near MVP level?
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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71812 on: March 17, 2024, 12:25:11 pm »
Not sure what time scale that's supposedly on because fields isn't even going to play this year unless wilson is either awful or gets injured. Though, they both could potentially happen.

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71813 on: March 17, 2024, 09:19:22 pm »
Days like today I really wish there was some NFL action to take my mind off things (thankfully, we've had only a few of those this season)

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71814 on: March 17, 2024, 09:38:38 pm »
The NFL as a whole must not rate Fields. Getting a conditional 6th pick for him suggests there’s  a general consensus he isn’t anywhere near a starting NFL quality QB. Interesting because I think there’s a proportion of the NFL fanbase who not only see him as a starter, they seem him as potential star quality.


Supposedly there were a number of teams interested and he wanted to go to the Steelers out of those interested, so the Bears played fair with him and didn't try and force through a more lucrative offer instead, although presumably the others were of a fairly similar level for them to be willing to be flexible.

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71815 on: March 17, 2024, 09:47:21 pm »
I'd like to see how Brock Purdy would of looked on The Chicago Bears instead of playing with an All Pro team on the 49ers now That Fields is on The Steelers he will develop into a top five QB in the league.


A top 5 QB would tend to be one that was good enough to elevate their supporting cast rather than needing everything in place around them, there were few signs that he was that good or that he was growing towards that level, while his situation was less than ideal to start out with, there were enough pieces in place for him last season that he should have shown far more progress than he actually did last season.

He's like those players that look good on match of the day, but look far worse if you actually see watch the full game as a few highlights don't cover for the rest of their play.

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71816 on: March 17, 2024, 10:04:41 pm »
Fields will need to be bad not to take Wilson's job. Because Wilson isn't any good these days.

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71817 on: March 17, 2024, 11:17:36 pm »
I have no idea what the Pats are planning this offseason. Have done nothing of note in FA so are we hoping we can draft for what we need?

Some of these moves have been mad so far around the league

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71818 on: Yesterday at 02:07:33 pm »
I have no idea what the Pats are planning this offseason. Have done nothing of note in FA so are we hoping we can draft for what we need?

Some of these moves have been mad so far around the league

The big first Q is whether they stick at 3 in the draft and grab a QB or look to trade down for a bit of a haul.

I mean the need for a QB is obvious and they are hard to get but that situation looks like a multi year rebuild.

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« Reply #71819 on: Yesterday at 02:32:12 pm »
The big first Q is whether they stick at 3 in the draft and grab a QB or look to trade down for a bit of a haul.

I mean the need for a QB is obvious and they are hard to get but that situation looks like a multi year rebuild.

Getting a QB in place would seem like it needs to happen either this draft or the next and the predictions are for a much weaker class in a year's time so it would be a gamble to wait, they do have a full set of picks this year to put in some more parts of their rebuild besides a QB after all.

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« Reply #71820 on: Yesterday at 02:34:23 pm »
Getting a QB in place would seem like it needs to happen either this draft or the next and the predictions are for a much weaker class in a year's time so it would be a gamble to wait, they do have a full set of picks this year to put in some more parts of their rebuild besides a QB after all.

I think the only way they trade out is if they don't love the QB options available at 3

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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71821 on: Yesterday at 04:41:42 pm »
They should draft General Booty just for my amusement.
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Re: The NFL Thread
« Reply #71822 on: Yesterday at 09:46:02 pm »
https://twitter.com/HoustonTexans/status/1769834434327417156

another 'bespoke' number style and another one with the city name across the chest.

borrrrrrrrring. yawn.