Quote:It's a joke that you still think Mariota's ceiling is as high as Luck's or Bortles'. You talk about Blake padding his stats, and yet he consistently puts up strong numbers against any defense. Most of Mariota's hype is over his first start when Jameis was having a bad day and the Bucs had no tape on Mariota. Take away that game and his games against the Jaguars and Saints, two defenses that make any qb look good, and MM's numbers are total garbage. Mariota is injury prone and his deep accuracy as atrocious. You may try to downplay Blake's gaudy stats as something less than impressive, but at least he gives us hope. Mariota appears to be an utter disaster.

 

I agree, it's clearly trolling coming from anyone not a tacks fan, but it's likely to be completely sincere coming from tack fans since that's just the nature of being a fan. It's also true that outside of the three games you mentioned he has more INTs than TDs. Still I don't think he'll be a disaster as a player, just not what the titans fans think they're getting right now. Disaster would be RG3's career after his first year, but I could see mariota having a Chad Pennington or Ryan Fitzpatrick level career. Pretty decent from the perspective of how bad a QB can be, but really very disappointing for a #2 overall pick. I just don't see the ability to make all of the throws that an elite level QB needs. Against the Jaguars he could throw at his sweet spot all day without problem, and even get away with just floating one up down the field and having the ball bounce to his guy, but the Jaguars defense since Marks went out again is the worst defense I've ever seen. Can't rush. Can't cover. At all.

 

The more worrisome thing about mariota than his popgun arm would be his tendency for lower body injuries. The "hit" that took him out a couple of weeks ago wasn't much of a hit at all, and if that's all it will take to get him hurt he won't have a very long or productive career sitting on the bench for half of every season.

 

It's a real shame Bortles was a victim of such bad officiating against the saints, he probably should have had more than 400 yards in that game and at least one less INT.

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