CJ Stroud looks absolutely amazing and on a team that I would say is on par with our roster at best.

Poles said all along he needed to be blown away to stick at #1 and take a QB last year. By the time the combine rolled around he all but announced to the world the pick was for sale. I understand Fields showed flashes towards the end of last year and that played into that decision.

Fast forward to now and Stroud is blowing everyone away.

I think it’s fair to question what our staff missed on Stroud to be out on him immediately and whether or not we should be worried about them making the next decision on who our QB is.

20/20 hindsight – I would much rather have Stroud instead of the DJ Moore package and it’s not even close. Give me a franchise QB and figure out the rest of the line and WRs after that.

  • boardmonkey@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    First, we can’t always talk about the grass always being greener on the other side of the fence. Last year we had a really talented QB on a rookie contract, working a new system, with a ton of new coaches. We grabbed a bunch of new guys, and we were hoping to see big uptick in quality. DJ Moore should have been much more impactful than he has been this year.

    I fully believe it doesn’t matter who is at QB if they haven’t already been a starter for 5+ years. Our coaching is the problem. CJ could be on our team, and he’d be doing shit, because we have a bad coaching staff and bad play calling. We don’t know how to develop a QB. We just take rookies or back-up QB’s with little experience, and we throw them in the deep end like they are a 10 year vet with playoff experience.

    Fields and Bagent should be on 2 looks then check down. Not 5 looks with minor OL protection. The only QBs who can survive in our system are vets that don’t need to be babied, and will fight back against a coach making a stupid call.