NFL Week 6 thread: Godspeed, Sneeze Achiu

Missed the entire day yesterday due to work (side note: Four-Ball championships are the fucking worst, slow Chinese water torture) ... and I watched Berman and Booger on NFL Primetime for a 45-minute catch-up and they ... uh ... weren't terrible?

 

The first interception was Mayfield being Mayfield. His pre-snap reads are non-existent. Every game he makes one or two throws where you're like, "How did he not see that guy?" That's his problem. His comprehension of the game is not developing and to compound that, his accuracy, which was his strong point, is getting worse. Since their schedule means at least a 7-win season, if not 8 or 9, there will be no chance to rectify this through the draft. So he better get better.

Mayfield and the entire offense is not helped by Chubb being out. He's their best offensive player by far. Teller was grading as the best G in the league, too, so that's a pretty big loss. But every team has injuries. A good QB overcomes at least some of that.

The Steelers handled Garrett well, as a lot of teams do, by double- and triple-teaming him every play. Why not? The Browns don't have one other guy on their front seven who can routinely beat a guy one-on-one and their secondary is so bad, especially in back, that at least one WR is running free two seconds after the snap on every play. The Browns should have thrown the Brink's truck at Clowney. Instead, they have their annual $50 mil of unspent funds.

 

People always say stuff like this. But then they never show the math. Name another team that would hand Baker Mayfield a starting job right now without a quarterback competition.

There’s not one.

 

Saw this in real time on Twitter and thought it was probably too early for Rodgers to celebrate like this.

Green Bay didn't score another point and Tampa Bay scored the next 38.

Don't fuck with Mr. Brady.

 

Steelers are 5-0? lol

 

Another team may give him a shot, but he still will not be able to pass from the pocket, something he could do fine as a rookie but seems to have lost now. This has nothing to do with the Browns being the Browns. They are loaded on offense. They have a good player at literally all 10 other positions. That shows how bad Mayfield is playing right now.

 

To support your position - Winston is currently a third stringer, and Newton had to wait to get a deal. Both had different kind of warts than Mayfield, but NFL front officers clearly value these QBs less. Football Outsiders had him as the 28th ranked QB in 2019. Josh Rosen got traded for a 2nd and a 5th and lasted only a year on the Dolphins before being cut. (Not sure if he's resurfaced on a roster.)

 

Give the Bucs the trophy ... right now!

 

Another shot, to me, is signing him in the offseason as a backup or their starter.
Jets, Colts, Jags, Steelers, Washington, Bears, Lions, Bucs.

Either they have a vet in their last year or would rather do this than keep missing on draft picks.

 

Loaded but dysfunctional.

 

True, but he's the face of the franchise in the traditional sense and the way I described. His talent is obviously great -- I think he's the best scrambler in the league right now, maybe even the best since Fran Tarkenton -- but his stats at the end of the year are always fairly average in terms of yards and TDs. Right around 30-35 TDs every year, very few interceptions, decent yardage but has never led the league. As good as he is, you rarely think of him in terms of being a top-five type of quarterback.
It's kind of the same way with the Seahawks as a whole. They're always good and in the mix, but when you think of the perennial contenders they don't pop into your mind the way the Patriots, Packers and Steelers do.

 

There is a pretty big "if" there. It's not like he flat out said they're going to win it.