Again, stats are for losers, points are most important, not my quote but BB's
offensive points per game league rank:
Year 1: 6
Year 2: 17
Year 3: 26
still early, but that's not progress. Sure blame everyone but Mac for this, the refs, the weather, yada yada yada.
I don't get what you're all fired up about. Giardi says one good thing about Mac on a relatively innocuous stat, and you hopped all over multiple things, including the fact his source included two games of Brady's you disagree with. You've fired back two relatively angry posts, which more or less reveals what you're really upset about - Mac.
Again, I get it. I've at least unearthed with several people that they're clearly frustrated that Jones isn't Brady. And I say that in terms of him not having the same ability as Brady so far in terms of closing out games, finishing comebacks, etc. Brady was a killer, and he could get it done.
I understand it,
and I even wrote about Mac not getting that done. But still, nobody is going to be that guy
ever again. Unless lightning strikes twice, which I doubt. I don't recall anyone outside of the 49ers and maybe Green Bay where a team got lucky on their next guy immediately. Although I dislike Rodgers, but that's another story.
Either way, that's the world we live in now. We have who we have. It stinks, but we're going to have to lower our expectations.
As some have said, they'll ignore that and continue to demand excellence. That's cool, I'm not telling people how to think. People can demand it, but to expect it is just not realistic. It's just going to result in more frustration and disappointment.
At the end of the day, we're all just going to have to let this year play out and hope for the best. As I've said, kicking Jones to the curb means starting over, which will waste more seasons because Brady is among the few who ran the table in his first year. The next guy will probably be like Mac. He'll go 10-7, and probably take a step back in his sophomore season, likely for different reasons. That's why year three is generally key with most QBs.
The next guy will likely also have new problems and new frustrations...that whole "devil you know" thing. I'd prefer to root for the current kid to succeed - for at least this season - so that we hopefully avoid that adventure and the years lost.
The other issue is those guys don't grow on trees. We can't give up the farm to a team that will then have to find their own next guy, which given how important that position with, likely won't do it.
And the draft - as we've seen - is a crapshoot. Even the top guys don't always pan out. I mean, so far, Lawrence and Jones are the two best out of the top five quarterbacks taken that year. It's certainly not an exact science.
In the end, if Jones stinks or doesn't do anything amazing all season, they won't pick up his option, and he'll either be gone after next year, or they'll move on from him this offseason and potentially start someone else next season - whoever that may be. But we kind of need this year to end well, especially given the defense they have.
It would suck to see them waste this current group, so I'm trying to remain patient and give him and O'Brien a chance while hoping they can get it together. Especially after they've played two out of three games in the rain. Definitely glad Sunday is in a dome, and that factor will hopefully at least be off the table.