I think there are often too many variables to parse stats between teams as the basis for evaluation.
Mariota is very much like Trubisky. I thought Trubs had a little more Brees in him, but he doesn't have that arm at all. They both have woeful deep balls and inconsistent accuracy at any distance. They both had some difficult situations and could run more except for fear of injury.
I'd be happy to have either compete with Trubisky alongside a rookie being groomed and hand selected by Nagy, but I lean toward Red Rifle because he isn't the same. He has a better arm than either and could bring some other tools to test Nagy with. Is Mariota a slightly better version of Trubisky? Again...I think parsing that out is difficult...but why? That doesn't seem to work with Nagy, I'd go for the different guy with the arm weapon, draft a guy in Nagy's ideal vision, and then its up to Nagy to show his vision works.
Right now Pace is on the hot seat, Nagy is showing leadership, and may we have better luck with injuries next year and fix the glaring mistakes Pace should have addressed 2 and 3 years ago, or failed to address 2 and 3 years ago.
