Maybe Teddy Bridgewater wasn’t that bad….

[KSpan]

8 minutes ago, Cam Lawter said:

Yeah, but the games were at least fun to watch even though we would end up losing. It would always come down to last minute drive that would end in a missed field goal or Teddy trying to make a play that would lead to an interception. In the last 2 seasons, has anyone even had a chance to lead a game winning touchdown or field goal? Only one I can think of is the Atlanta game this year.

Fun to watch? These past 2 years have been brutal, sure, but watching Teddy Ball was/is akin to watching paint dry.

[Basbear]

6 minutes ago, Cam Lawter said:

Yeah, but the games were at least fun to watch even though we would end up losing. It would always come down to last minute drive that would end in a missed field goal or Teddy trying to make a play that would lead to an interception. In the last 2 seasons, has anyone even had a chance to lead a game winning touchdown or field goal? Only one I can think of is the Atlanta game this year.

yea i agree with you. I thought the 2020 was going to 2-14 at best. To be in 95% was much more enjoyable than the if the current team allows 17, its over.... Better coaching would have won those close games...

[Green-Ghost]

I liked Teddy Bridgewater.  I suspect Teddy was a victim of management at a time when everyone is looking for the next Drew Brees, Argon Rogers, Tom Bradly.

If I am not mistaken, Trevor Lawrence was in the draft.  People thought he would be the next superstar.

[Green-Ghost]

Just now, Green-Ghost said:

I liked Teddy Bridgewater.  I suspect Teddy was a victim of management at a time when everyone is looking for the next Drew Brees, Argon Rogers, Tom Bradly.

If I am not mistaken, Trevor Lawrence was in the draft.  People thought he would be the next superstar.

I sometimes hate spellcheck!!!  Arron not Argon.  Brady not Bradley

[Green-Ghost]

Just now, Green-Ghost said:

I sometimes hate spellcheck!!!  Arron not Argon.  Brady not Bradley

Bradly not Bradley

[hepcat]

4 hours ago, UNCrules2187 said:

Hindsight is 20/20 but I agree. And I like Jaycee as a player. 

You need a QB and everything else can come second. CB is a premium position. It’s not something you take top 10 if you don’t have an answer at QB. 

Everyone associated with this franchise should be fired for not understanding that. Hurts should have been picked in 2020, Fields should have been drafted in 2021, they didn’t draft a QB until 2022 for Christ sake. This team is run by idiots.

[firefox1234]

6 hours ago, hepcat said:

If they’d just drafted Fields and kept Bridgewater in 2021 we’d be in quite a different situation 

Or drafted Slater, but I digress…

[firefox1234]

29 minutes ago, hepcat said:

You need a QB and everything else can come second. CB is a premium position. It’s not something you take top 10 if you don’t have an answer at QB. 

Everyone associated with this franchise should be fired for not understanding that. Hurts should have been picked in 2020, Fields should have been drafted in 2021, they didn’t draft a QB until 2022 for Christ sake. This team is run by idiots.

If Tepper was smart no one should have been left in the building after the debacle that was 2021 yet here we are…..

[TheMaulClaw]

We in essence traded Mcafferry for Darnold, Henderson, and Mayfield. ugh

[JawnyBlaze]

3 hours ago, Cam Lawter said:

Yeah, but the games were at least fun to watch even though we would end up losing. It would always come down to last minute drive that would end in a missed field goal or Teddy trying to make a play that would lead to an interception. In the last 2 seasons, has anyone even had a chance to lead a game winning touchdown or field goal? Only one I can think of is the Atlanta game this year.

Anybody is more fun to watch than Bridgewater.  At least Darnold, Mayfield and Walker were like bad B movies.  Bridgewater was 3 hours of Ben Stein reading the dictionary. 

[CPantherKing]

8 hours ago, hepcat said:

If they’d just drafted Fields and kept Bridgewater in 2021 we’d be in quite a different situation 

Neither QB is good at winning a close game in the final minutes. The mental pressure causes them to consistently make mental errors. They are far from clutch. Fields is one of the worst clutch QBs in the NFL.

[Aussie Tank]

What I know is it’s been so long since 2015. It’s gotten that bad people think Corral is the answer Teddy B wasn’t that bad. Darnold will throw 2 tuddys this week and people will start saying see he needed the Oline and we should resign.

Please baby jebus give us a franchise QB again 

[pantherj]

Teddy was good at throwing DJ and other targets open when teams played us man to man. When they went zone Teddy was good at dropping it into the bucket when he needed to move the chains. The problem was that Teddy didn't want to try and throw deep because he was concerned about the o-line, and because his arm wasn't that good for going deep.

This led to a lack of explosive plays to take the top off the defense, and when you lack explosive plays you can't make mistakes. The pressure is on to not turn the ball over and even one big mistake can put the game out of reach. To complicate matters Teddy was terrible in the redzone to the point where you might wonder if he had mob connections. Once he was crap canned he made a statement about how Rhule didn't have the team practicing red zone enough.

I thought at the time that Teddy would be cut at the end of the season just like everyone else, but I actually wish we had kept him. If we had built up the o-line and added a couple of big redzone targets for Teddy we could have been a middle of the road team. Middle of the road up to this point would have been a wonderful dream compared to the nightmare of Sam and Baker.

Moving forward we must flush the toilet completely. The QB room needs an exorcism complete with holy water. Some kind of promise from Tepper needs to be made that after this season that we will never see Sam and Baker under center again at BOA.

Edited November 23, 2022 by pantherj

[CPantherKing]

Of the active QBs in the NFL with at least 1 game winning drive:

Sam Darnold is 50th

Baker Mayfield is 41st

Teddy Bridgewater is 39th

So, none of them should be starting in the NFL. They have had plenty of opportunities. They did not produce in college and they will not produce in the NFL.

Taylor Heinicke is 11th. That will turn out to be a big miss.

This leaves a team with 2 options.

Option 1) Give a new QB a run. The outcome will be a win by the team, and game winning drive led by the QB, a tie, or a loss. All a team needs to do is let that QB keep playing until they have come up with 5 losses. If they do not have 2 GWD to go with those 5 losses, you move on to another QB. There will be 5 to 10 opportunities for GWD every season for a single team. This will not improve if they haven't had success in college and they struggle to start their NFL career.

Option 2) Acquire a proven QB in the NFL. There are only 20 proven QBs in the NFL. Of the 20, there are 4 QBs who started the season as back-up QBs. 2 of the 4 are now starters in Garappolo and Heinicke. The other 2 are Cooper Rush and Nick Foles. 6 of the top 20 have won the SB. Only 1 QB outside of the top 20 have won the SB.