(07-27-2023, 07:21 AM)MarleyJag Wrote:

(07-26-2023, 10:32 PM)JagFanatic24 Wrote: Let’s visit this in 3 years. I’ll remember.

"Trevor can't run like Fields do but Fields throw like Trevor." - Tomlinson

Well first, Trevor's running ability is underrated. But Fields runs because he has too, he doesn't see the field as well. He has a big arm but far less accuracy. He completed 58.9% of his passes and threw for all of 2242 yards. He's going to have to do a lot of work to even become a competent starter. Lawrence is arguably an MVP candidate. 

Disclaimer: I think Fields is going to work himself into a quality starter...eventually.

Fields may have the talent and arm capabilities to be a good QB, the problem with him and also the issue for Houston and Stroud is that they both played in the same brain dead offensive system in college. I have never watched QB tape quite like Fields in college. Their offensive scheme was essentially Run on 1st down, RPO on 2nd down, PA deep post on 3rd. Consistently, and because they were so stacked at the WR position he was able to consistently throw it to the first read. 

Fields is basically learning how to get past his 2nd and 3rd reads in progression for the first time in the NFL, and it reflected how poor his first 2 seasons have been. This is why he almost immediately takes off and runs when he realizes option #1 is covered. 

He could absolutely become a good QB one day, but his transition to the NFL was always going to be extremely difficult because he wasn't properly prepared for it at all.

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