(06-08-2024, 11:41 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(06-08-2024, 10:51 AM)cland Wrote: Overall, I'm just hoping that the jury comes in on Lawrence's performance by next year.  The statistical regression for Lawrence in 2023 just keeps up the weird "he's elite...but <excuse> happened" line of thought. So I'm hoping that Lawrence has a reasonable OL, WR, run game, and health through the 2024-25 season so that his (yearly) statistical stats match up with his performance. This will be Lawrence's 4th year, and I hope the training wheels will come off.  I'm absolutely fine if Trevor comes up into the top 5 or 10 QB rankings, but I want to see the yearly stats to back that up.  2-1 TD to INT ratio and rating in the upper 90s.

LOL

Gimme a break

How many people in this thread have said "elite, but..." 

2?  

You know very few are calling him that but rather predicting he could get there - which makes him worthy of big money to many. 
You should hear how many Jags fans are calling the local radio shows saying "don't pay him - he hasn't proven it yet." 
There are NOT tons of Jags fans calling him elite.


He's an ascending QB with great potential that suffered bad line play and multiple injuries.
Which makes all of your references to stats pretty meaningless. 


Hopefully this season those "excuses" don't become a factor in the equation again. 
  And seriously, you can [BLEEP] right off with that "training wheels" garbage.

Err, okay.  I'm struggling to see where we disagree here.  See I read the ^bolded as he's "elite, but...he had bad line play and was injured."  I suppose your counter-argument here is that "he could be elite, but...he had bad line play and was injured???"

The training wheels comment was intended to reflect his stat-line in 2023 and the justification for it.  At the end of the day, if gets paid at the top of the market and puts up another 21 TDs and 21 turnovers (Fumbles + Ints) with a 88.5 rating in 2024-2025 the Jags are going to catch hell, regardless of the OL health or if gets banged up.  As I described, I want him to have every chance to perform...just like you stated!

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