(01-08-2024, 10:44 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Look, who cares?  We're not getting a new QB, because QB is the least of our problems.

I am 50/50 with this belief. I wouldn't say he's the least of our problems, certain elements to his game are though, for sure, a problem. You cannot keep overlooking nor downplaying the turnovers with him. You also have to look at the physical and mental beating he took this year, between the knee, the ankle, the concussion and the throwing shoulder injuries. 

There needs to be accountability for this on two levels. Number one, on Lawrence, for not being completely honest with himself and the staff if his game was that thrown off and out of balance with these injuries stacking up against him, and, the coaching staff also has to absorb the majority of the blame for continuing to throw him out there to the wolves. 

They left that kid on an island out there and he struggled. So, it's 50/50 for me. In the season of the "Back-Up QB". We said to hell with that trend and kept trying to force a spark out there that just wasn't possible. We had the flint, just no tinder. At this point, he's a Jaguar. At least for the next two seasons. 

I would be cautiously optimistic with him. His future is hitched with Baalke and Pederson. Something has to change fundamentally in their principles, their approach and their philosophy this off season. It's okay to take the kids gloves off now and start being a little more brutally honest and more quickly to set the tone or make adjustments that are clearly and direly needed. 

There was very little adjustments made all season. That's the most alarming aspect for me. Started in the 2023 off season and it resonated like radioactive material throughout the entirety of the season. Lawrence really is a one read passer and this entire defense really is a hope defense. 

We got exposed. Truth hurts. Failing to accept it and address it hurts more though. They have a very, very short window to get this fixed starting now and prior to training camp. Here's to reading more positive things and hoping less but actually demanding more as a fanbase.

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