(12-21-2022, 08:02 PM)OG-JAGFAN Wrote:

(12-21-2022, 12:38 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

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Nah.

You were just to impatient to let a young QB acclimate to a real NFL offense. Others were not - because we've seen this before and we get it.

Cmon man. Stop making crap up to fit your narrow narrative. Many people including critics were questing Lawrence right after that Bronco game.  You keep trying to pound your chest to be proud that your right you are blinded to the facts.  Oh btw the stats also prove it.

After the Bronco game in week 8 Lawrence was looking very shaky.  Lets look at the actual facts.

After week 8 Lawrence:  10 TDs, 6 ints, while having games with completion percentages in the 40's and 50's multiple times. If you want to pretend he was always all that and there was no cause for concern the facts show otherwise.  He has turned it around but the first half of this season was lackluster by any measure.

No.

I'm sorry, but you took an unwise approach to evaluating a young QB. 

Young QBs enter the league needing one, two, even three years to get comfortable  - and that is nearly as old as the league itself. 
Many of us have watched it unfold a dozen times. 

For me - TL flashed during camp and the first few games of 2021, but he was in a dysfunctional situation and it was tough to see through the fog of that. Then in game 4 or 5 vs the bengals on Thursday night, he made some throws that were clearly rare. The kind of throws elite QBs make. These were not normal "flashes." They were better than that. And he continued to mix those types of throws in through the debacle that was the Urban Error. 

I watched that horribly schemed offense trot out series after series and shoot themselves in the foot with illegal formations, false starts, and other idiotic mistakes while they dialed up poor situational play calling and they put the kid QB in a hole week after week. He was never going to properly acclimate amongst that utter [BLEEP] show. Seemed damned obvious to me. 
But the flashes were there, and those throws that transcended "flashes" were there. All of this screamed "be patient with the kid." 

This year it was readily apparent he was on a path to getting comfortable in a functional offense but wasn't quite there yet - and then he entered this weird slump of inconsistency for about 4 games - and fans like yourself went right back doubting him prematurely. My thoughts at that time were "Well, damn, maybe it's gonna take him a little longer like it did Josh Allen." 

Then he just crested the hill and started feeling good enough in the system that he could relax and focus on sound technique and making reads with the bullets flying around him. 

And that italicized part is very important. This is often the last step for performers on big stages. They have the skill set, technique and talent. But put them into an elevated environment, under pressure, under the bright lights and they will often be unable coalesce all of those elements into a calm and controlled performance. Not until they normalize the new game speed, the new demands of their scheme and playbook., the new tendencies of their various receivers, gain trust in placing anticipatory throws on an unoccupied spot on the field, etc, etc, etc

When this stuff clicks and they settle into it. They've acclimated. That's what we've seen since the Denver game. 

And yes, I've expected that this moment would come since late September of last year. Sorry that bothers you. 

And as a sidenote that has been said a kazillion times but needs a reminder: Stats don't show you any of this - and they do not predict the outcome of a young player's development. Gotta look beyond that.

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