kungfoodude

If they lose a game, they will likely not be in the top 10 and it's debateable they will make the playoffs.

They are both top 10 teams and undefeated but Mendoza has been both better, his team has been insanely dominant and his resume is substantially better. He will probably get some consideration, at least. Largely due to the very weak field so far. I will also point out that the Heisman has been the consistenly least respectable award in all of US college revenue athletics and major professional athletics. I view it as basically the MTV Best Kiss award equivalent in athletics.

That's Expected Points Added after avoiding a sack. That has zero relationship to anything regarding the Red Zone on the surface. "Good at avoiding sacks" isn't necessarily tied to that directly. Sack% is a little better metric for that, I would think. I did misinterpret your original post as "good at avoiding sacks IN THE REDZONE." I see you were making two claims.

I think Mendoza is a very clearly better player. Also, the Heisman is traditionally the best QB or RB on a top 10 ranked team. Has literally never been "best player" at any point in it's history as an award.

Well poo. I thought this was a key bump.

Glorified option QB in the modern era is a tough sell, TBH. It's a weak class but getting 43% of your season's total in passing TD's in one of your 7 games to date is not an easy sell. Close to 300 yds/GM of offense is very respectable. I am just not sure we are in an era where a guy like that is in serious consideration without insanely dominant stats. ACC POY, for sure.

Yeah, those mascots frequently overstep but you gotta be self aware enough to know that dumb kid has nothing to lose. Cam Newton does. Love him but disappointed in him.

Dalton has literally made more throws over the same time period. And that isn't a glowing Andy endorsement. It's a damning statement about Bryce.

For real, S_C_H_L_O_N_G is censored???

Don't forget the great Greg *******.

My concern with Howell is the same as turned out to be true with Jameis, there is no such thing as improvement. He literally doesn't even understand the concept. Same as Jameis(or Favre).

Do you have data on the sacks in the redzone? I know that Bryce's sack% has gone down each year(10.53, 7.02, 4.68). Dalton to compare: 4.92, 4.19, 7.14

And actually control the ball. The path to success seems fairly clear. Heavy dose of Rico early and often. If that is cooking, pass action passing off of that.

Look, I am not a Bryce hater but we gotta be realistic at this point. He ain't it.

Miss Bryce sorely is possibly the most hilarious statement I have read on the Huddle in quite some time.

He did only throw 1 pass 20+ in that game. I think he is still struggling to adjust to the NFL. At Alabama he was able to extend plays and play backyard football. That's not only not the style of offense we have been running but his physical skills don't lend themselves to that style of play at this level. So, the amount of issues he actually has to clean up are WAAAAAY more than I anticipated as a guy that had Bryce #1 on my board in that draft class. I am just not seeing a reasonable path for him to clean it all up and develop in a reasonable timeframe

Jones is a less athletic and less gunslinger version of Purdy, as well. What he(Jones) does well doesn't translate into every offense.

They both are average to below average QB's, most likely. That offense is just a well oiled machine with a lot of nice toys

Okay. I see what you mean. I honestly am just not as fixated on that deep pass element because I do genuinely believe that has largely been a product of the offense slightly more than Bryce himself. I looked at 20+ yd passes(NFNGS) based on Bryce vs. Dalton. Bryce was actually throwing deep more often, which did surprise me. Not a remarkable amount. I tend to think the lack of deep targets is more the fault of the offense. I think the lack of general success on deep targets, is Bryce.

His INT% is about career average(1.9, 2.3, 2.2). It's his TD% that is at a career best(2.1, 3.9, 4.9).

Transitive property of football??? Wat

This is someone ignoring Kyle Shanahan's impact on QB's. Before and after, for that matter.

That metric would be one of the better indicators of what you are describing. I would disagree what we don't need percentage. Hucking the ball deep for low percentage is just basically Anthony Richardson. You see how much they have improved since he was replaced. Again, I think most are really hyper focusing on a relatively small aspect of Bryce's flaws. His poor mechanics and his lack of being able to make quick reads lead to the overwhelmingly majority of his lack of success/consistency. His arm strength and targets downfield are much smaller aggravating factors to that lack of success.

Willis is really a 3rd string QB at the moment. He is in a place that suits him, behind a young, potentially franchise QB with no pressure on his development timeline. That is exactly not the case here. Personally, I highly doubt he will ever develop more than being a middling backup but we will see.

If it isn't a heavy dose of Rico early and often, you will have a pretty good idea of the outcome, I suspect. Huddle wants Rico heavy running and play action passing. Watch almost none of that actually happen on Sunday.