(06-05-2024, 08:47 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(06-05-2024, 08:34 AM)Caldrac Wrote: Mistakes are mistakes, not sure why people can't seem to get over that concept. Trevor Lawrence is Josh Allen, minus the rushing ability, durability and touchdowns to offset the mistakes he's made. 

It's fine. All is forgiven. Last year was rough. They fell short of matching their exact same goal of 2022, which was winning the division and potentially winning a play off game. 

It's year four now though, year three in the same offense. He's going to have to make better decisions with the football and limit his turnovers, regardless of the surrounding circumstances. 

His turnovers put the defense out on the field, a struggling defense at that, which was also dealing with it's fair share of injuries (Campbell with the hamstring, Lloyd with the hand injury, virtually no presence within the interior that was depleted to begin with due to various injuries between Hamilton and Fatukasi).

We can't keep demonizing everything around Lawrence while failing to acknowledge that homeboy has a turnover problem and it's going to have to get adjusted in 2024. Good football teams can turn it over and bounce back. Great football teams manage to limit those turnovers and keep their opponents at a puncher's distance. We need to see that evolution in his game this year. 

His TD's need to vastly outweigh his interceptions and fumbles this year. Especially if it's true that he's looking at $50M per year. This is the narrative that's being set now this off season and it's not going away anytime soon until he dispels the tendencies that have landed him in said narrative.

No doubt Trevor has many areas he can improve on.  But we were 9-8, despite a lousy running game and a lousy defense.  When you can't run for a first down on 3rd and 2, and everyone in the building knows it, and when your defense can't stop the opponent from running for a first down on 3rd and 2, and everyone in the building knows it, Trevor is all we have at that point, and it's unfair to blame him for what happens.  When it's 3rd and 12, the defense is sending the house, and the QB has to wait for his receivers to come open at least 12 yards down field, and at that point there's a real good chance of a strip-sack.  Especially when the Center is being pushed back into his lap.  And then what do we do, blame Trevor for fumbling?  Yes, he had too many fumbles, but we have to stop relying on Trevor alone to win games for us.  It's a TEAM SPORT.

I think we were getting away with the interior o-line deficiency through the first 11 games and the 9ers, having two weeks to prepare for the game, identified the weakness and exposed it and then it became much more obvious after that point as the blueprint had been set and everyone was attempting to replicate it against us.  Coupled with the injuries taking a bit of mobility from Trevor and perhaps affecting accuracy slightly.  Football is a game of inches and that's not just in reference to down and distance.

The bottom line is we're a missed kick in the Bengals game (or 1 or 2 plays in several of the other losses) away from being division champs and this entire narrative about Trevor being ripped to shreds.  I have fewer questions about Trevor than I do about 90% of the other 31 current starting QBs in this league.

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