Mr. Scot

Speaking of Belichick... Yeah, that's...not really something you want to hear your boss say

Upside has gotten a lot of people fired...

John and Honest NFL...

Passing accuracy isn't something you see a lot of improvement in either. People will point to Josh Allen as an example but I don't really know how valid that is. And to be clear completion percentage doesn't really measure accuracy. There's a lot of other factors in that number.

If there's one thing this offseason has made abundantly clear, it's that everyone from Tepper on down wants to start winning now.

Elsewhere in the department of "please let this happen"...

I get it

I would love to have a quarterback with Young's intelligence, accuracy, and processing skills. But like a lot of others, I'm concerned with how long he lasts taking the hits than an NFL quarterback gets.

More from that session...

I figured

There's this from a guy who seems to be associated with Roaring Riot... Don't know if these are all official (I've seen tweets from Hurst and Williams confirming their numbers) but from what I've seen, all of these are currently available.

The roster page is a little slow to update sometimes. Honestly the site in general can be.

You're really trying to live up to the Boogeyman name, aren't you?

As I recall, the only experience Dorsey had prior to becoming Newton's quarterback coach was working as one of our scouts. Would he have been as good as he is now if he'd been allowed to really coach? Don't know, but I do know Rivera overall just wasn't good for Newton. To be honest, at this point I think Dorsey's a little overrated as a head coaching prospect, partially because he's using Allen in much the same way Rivera used Newton. It won't surprise me if that ends up shortening his career.

Word was the asking price for #3 wasn't significantly different than the asking price for #1. Given that, why settle for #3?

Actually I'm more ignoring the pro days. The game tape is far more informative, and the game tape favors Stroud or Young. I prefer Stroud, but I could live with Young.

Word back then was Rivera and Hurney didn't want any "hard coaching" on Newton. They were afraid of hurting his feelings. Dorsey basically wound up being a "buddy", and there were a load of indications that Newton didn't really respect him or see him as a valid coach. Buffalo actually let him coach however he felt he needed to.

Hue Jackson never gave a sh-t in Cleveland either. Dallas and Oakland have long running reputations for getting "bad guys".

Falling in love with physical tools rather than pro-level quarterbacking skills is how you end up with a Trey Lance.

Smitty comments...

Pretty much. Instead of trying to teach him to play in a pro-style system, t hey built a college style offense around him. It's possible the idea was to slowly transition him into a more traditional offense, but they just decided what they had was good enough and stuck with it. Turner showed them that they could have worked with him on that, although maybe it would have meant him starting a little later instead of day one. That's a trade off I'd take for a longer, more successful career.