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I wonder if Hundley was on some type of secret-probation and agreed to not play and everyone kept quiet about it?
This is a very interesting idea and would help explain some things.
I wonder if Hundley was on some type of secret-probation and agreed to not play and everyone kept quiet about it?
Yes, if a bunch of stuff that happened hadn't, and if a bunch of stuff that didn't happen did, the result would maybe have been different.
We need better than both of them, I agree. Tyrod Taylor would not be a horrible option and would likely not get in Kyler's head.
Or, and work with me here, he needs to be able to be a pocket passer when he gets nicked up.
This highlights his need to grow as a passer. As K9 said, being nicked up is part of playing in the NFL. This is going to likely be the case every year and he can't be a franchise and winning QB if he is unable to be successful without scrambling.
This guy.
McFly it’s his freaking THROWING SHOULDER. I get you think he’s soft and he sucks, but I don’t care how tough you are if your job is to throw the ball anything that happens to that arm is going to effect how you throw it pocket passer or not. Kind of how that works.
You can pin point where our season changed. We don’t have the weapons to overcome him not being amazing. We don’t have a WR who can catch a 10 yard slant and take it to the house. We don’t have a running game we can lean on when he’s not 100%. Nobody is scared of our running game.
weapons weapons and more weapons this offseason
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All of these posts are just opinions. We can politely agree to disagree as adults. There are no right or wrong opinions. I see others point of view although I may not agree with it.
I'd definitely count a decent backup QB as a weapon. Whether it's Mariota or some other guy whose exhibited success in this league. If we had a backup that could have won just one more game than the banged-up non-running Kyler we make the playoffs and maybe he is fully recovered with several weeks off.
Mariota would be perfect
By your own admission you didn’t watch the game. Streveler was not an NFL player. I mean not even close. Hundley is not good but miles better than streveler. Streveler would be looking up at the pantheon of nfl greats like Ryan LindleyNot even remotely what I said. What I said was why do people keep saying we should have played Hundley over Streveler. Hundley is not that good, he never has been. Hundley for his career 9 TD"s 13 picks, 5.6 YPA. The best thing about Hundley is he can run, based on what I've seen I think Streveler might be a better runner than Hundley. I don't think it's some huge mystery that Streveler was the backup, I don't think it was some secret punishment of Hundley. I fully believe that Kliff thought Streveler was the better backup because he can run, was a better short yardage option, and that gave him some gadget play usefulness in games. He just never really used him after the first game in that capacity because he preferred to have his best QB, Murray, have the ball.
I want a better backup than either of them I just don't get why people think playing Hundley would have materially changed anything against the Rams. The only chance we had to win that game was Kyler because we fell behind with the picksix. If they had correctly called that back, and we get a Fg, we might have been in that game, with Streveler doing nothing. Because the Rams offense wasn't very good. But the minute we got behind, after the picksix, you knew we were going to likely have to score on offense to win, because it was unlikely we'd get another easy TD set up off the defense, McVay wasn't going to let that happen.
Even if we somehow squeaked out a win there we were going to lose big the next game.
The problem was not having Kyler, not playing streveler over Hundley
Streveler was not an NFL player.
By your own admission you didn’t watch the game. Streveler was not an NFL player. I mean not even close. Hundley is not good but miles better than streveler. Streveler would be looking up at the pantheon of nfl greats like Ryan Lindley
Mariota is under contract with the Raiders for one more season
even before he threw the interception, he had all the look of a guy who was going to throw a bad interception