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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.The biggest knock on him is that he apparently doesn't work very hard to get better, so I'm thinking he'd be a pretty awful fit here.
Better than Hoyer.
...crappy attitude. NO!
His need for attention may make him more of a hindrance than a help in NE...
How long would it take for him to understand the subtleties of this offense??.. like many WR's that come here and claim to understand it then all of a sudden they do not..
How long would it take for him to understand the subtleties of this offense??
Concern over the back up QB is overrated. Unless you are in fact, the GOAT Tom Brady, you cannot save any team in the NFL from the back up QB position.
I mean just look at the Eagles last year for example.. oh. wait nevermind.
Former 1st round pick?REPORT: Robert Griffin III Gaining Interest on Trade Market
That would be an interesting backup - 28-years-old, loads of talent, unfulfilled promise.
If he's healthy , he would be a major upgrade at backup QB. People were gushing over Bridgewater. Rglll is basically the same player ,just older. Perfect backup , if you get the price right.
Agree but for a backup QB to come on for a few games it is very difficult to rebuild the offense to suit him when the changes would be drastic. Plus personnel is built around your scheme, so radically changing the offensive scheme is hindered by that also.McD will reconfigure the offense to match the current abilities of players he has to work with -optimize their strengths and avoid exposing their weaknesses and vulnerabilities. He just recently said as much.
There are layers/levels of understanding the "complete offense" that new players need to assimilate in some sort of sequence. New players need to have the ability and the willingness to keep working at it relentlessly. However much progress they've made at a certain point in time, that's the extent of the complexity they'll be asked to execute - and then only to the limit of their general skill level.
The thing is that, although Hoyer has "experience in the system", he doesn't have anywhere near the level of understanding that Brady does, and his skill set is obviously different. If (God help us) Hoyer needs to take over for awhile, McD will alter the offense to optimize however much Hoyer can do well. McD isn't going to expect Hoyer to run "Brady's Offense" just to have him faceplant. That would be stupid.
The same thing would apply to Griffin, or to anyone else who becomes Brady's backup. They won't be running the "Brady Offense"; it'll be something different. While it seems unlikely that it would be as successful as Brady's Offense, it's not a given that it would be a complete disaster.
So, what it comes down to is objectively and dispassionately evaluating what strengths and weaknesses Griffin has versus Hoyer's strengths and weaknesses. Since neither of them would be running anything more than a limited version of the offense, it's a matter of figuring out which limited version - Griffin's or Hoyer's - would be most likely to succeed against the specific defenses that the Pats will face in the regular season in 2018.
Speaking of Mallett, is he on the street now? Was he in anyone’s camp?RG3 is not as tall as Ryan Mallet, so how good can he be?