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does fields have the skills to make a deep playoff run? As of the Detroit game he was still bailing on clean pockets and not seeing easy wide open throws, he had JT O'Sullivan exasperated at the end of that rundown. Yes he is ridiculously talented, that's called potential. He is a potentially great QB, but he's not becoming a great QB as long as he is repeating his weaknesses...which he is.
I think drafting QB's is akin to going to the horse races, you can bet on the owner, the horse, the jockey, there are a million different stats, and you're still guessing and hoping to get lucky.
When I look at his college profile I see an avg. release time of 3.11 seconds, which isn't horrible but isn't elite, he had a pressure grade of 63.9 and what's alarming is his pressure to sack rate and it's 25%.
Fields athleticism is so elite that its enticing and you really hope he can master the passing thing.
When I look at who we could draft statistically who would be better than Fields Caleb Williams and Maye don't really jump out at me.
Williams avg release 3.16 pressure grade is 39.3 and sack rate is 23%, so at least statistically I don't see him as an improvement.
Maye is only slightly better than Williams, Penix has far better numbers than the top two and Nix has the very best pressure numbers.
CJ Stroud had very poor pressure numbers but looks amazing in the league so what does that really mean?
When I see stats of QBs who are best against the Blitz, the elites all show up, Brees/Brady/Mahomes/Rodgers so obviously beating the blitz is critical and once that skill is mastered a QB will begin to ascend to the upper echelon. Grossman couldn't beat the blitz, trubisky struggled with it and can any of you really say that Fields has made huge progress beating the blitz?
I've heard many extrapolations on here..."well if Fields would have played this many games his stats would be this".....well he hasn't played that many games because he got himself hurt, the play he got hurt on he had an open guy and pulled it down and took off running, which is his go to move. When the coaching staff tried to force him to learn to throw from the pocket everybody had an aneurism, they wouldn't let him do what he does best. They were basically saying what he does best is run and play playground ball. Lamar Jackson can throw fine from a pocket with anticipation so any running he does is a bonus.
he started the year with 3 absolutely horrible games...then he had the 2 great games followed by the first horrible Vikings game.
does anyone believe w/ different coaches he's suddenly going to be able to make the throws across the middle that he's not taking now?
"As of the Detroit game he was still bailing on clean pockets and not seeing easy wide open throws, he had JT O'Sullivan exasperated at the end of that rundown."
-TexasBearfan
Do u have the link for JT's Detroit breakdown? I couldn't find it.