NFL Wild-Card Weekend thread

I said it a few days ago, he's another one of those guys of whom too much was expected too early. It's never that he wasn't good; it's that he wasn't ready when a fan base and team looked to him to be ready.

 

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I've never seen a dude run out of a town on so little merit by his critics. That's just me.

I get that his arrogance might make him unlikable, but that has nothing to do with winning.

Mayfield was a kid who moved around a lot as I remember reading, so he has been able to adjust to new environment(s). He needs a supporting cast, like every guy who gets drafted high or who moves around a bit.

 

He was plenty ready. He led the team to the playoffs, won a game and nearly upset the Chiefs. He was completing 80% of his passes the next year when he got hurt and then the idiots who run the team kept shoving him in the lineup for the rest of that year because they needed to figure out whether they should pay him the big bucks. It took him a year-and-a-half to come back from that injury and look at him now. And look at them now. Stuck with a banged-up Watson, who wasn’t that good when he was healthy, his ridiculous contract and no talent from the first round for three consecutive years. Absolute brilliance.

 

If you can start for four teams in three seasons, it means a.) you have to be halfway decent and b.) you're a good guy whom everyone likes on both sides of the locker room. Studs who are complete jackasses tend to run out of opportunities the second or occasionally the third time around. Mayfield probably isn't a true franchise QB a la Brady or Mahomes, but he looks like a really good fit for the Bucs, who suddenly seem to have most of the pieces around him.

 

I think they'll still shut it down, similar to the way MLB brought the bootheel down on the shift, for the same reasons: it WORKS, it accomplishes its mission, but it looks like bullshit.

 

I just got a better look at Allen’s touchdown run. It looks like he faked a slide, then started running again. I’m not even sure if that is legal or not in the NFL. College football outlawed it after Pickett did the same thing in the ACC Championship game.

 

In fairness to goalmouth, this entire site is based on people yelling at clouds.

 

I still think ALL helping the runner should be illegal, like it used to be.

Yes, I'm old.

 

That's only a smidgeon past what I suggested. Yeah, sure. He was pretty solid early on, too.

I'd always thought that it was a rugby move before it started showing up in the NFL.

 

Pickleball is worse than all of those.

 

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