I would argue that we’re the outlier. Finally developed our young qb that everyone was ready to write off by making the right hires. You look around the league at QBs like Baker, Goff, Darnold, etc and it’s a bunch of QBs that their original team failed them and labeled them a bust but they went on to be great for another team with a better coach .
With Trevor, he started here and now he’s doing it here
Yup….was rough under urban who was lost….had a good year under doug then once doug stopped caring it went down again. Now we have a coach who will keep him accountable and coach him up and hes dominating
It’s good that most fans aren’t the GM. Some people were begging for Shedeur.
I will admit that this is something I’ve learned this season. What scared me about TLaw was that it seemed like he just didn’t have a good feel for the game. His timing, accuracy, and touch were all off (other than a rare dime once every other game or so)…all things that I thought were largely natural traits and not coachable. Now I wonder how Mahomes, someone who’s always seemed to have those natural traits and an amazing feel for the game, would have fared if he had to endure the level of coaching that Trevor did.
Goff is the most interesting QB to me. Made multiple Pro Bowls and a SB with the Rams by the time he was 26 years old, but got the bust treatment. Traded to Detroit and has taken them to heights Stafford never took them, but then Stafford takes the Rams to heights Goff never took them.
As one of Trevor’s toughest critics on this board, I’ll say this much: **He’s done enough in the last 5 weeks for me to keep an open mind**. That’s a lot more than I would have said 6 weeks ago. I think it’s way premature for us to be taking victory laps as he’s had flashes before and then regressed, but I’ll admit that what he’s doing now feels like it could have the makings of something more.
I’ll also say that I do believe that he’s had crap organizational support up to this point. For starters, he spent too many years behind awful lines. I could go on, but I won’t.
But with all of that said, Trevor has been part of the problem. Maybe he didn’t care because he didn’t think the organization did, IDK. Each time a new coach came on board, he seemed to take a brief step forward with his mechanics and accuracy but always regressed. He also came to each training camp looking like shit. All of these things, to a fan base as knowledgeable as any in the country, were obvious signs that Trevor wasn’t putting in the work, especially over the offseason.
I truly believe that Trevor could be great. So did everyone else when he was drafted. But we need more than a handful of games to break out the anointing oil. Hopefully he really wants this now. That starts with him not coming back to training camp unable to hit the side of a damned barn from 25 yards. I for one hope so because a very good Trevor could be fun for some time to come, but I have to reserve judgment until I see it.
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I would argue that we’re the outlier. Finally developed our young qb that everyone was ready to write off by making the right hires. You look around the league at QBs like Baker, Goff, Darnold, etc and it’s a bunch of QBs that their original team failed them and labeled them a bust but they went on to be great for another team with a better coach .
With Trevor, he started here and now he’s doing it here
Yup….was rough under urban who was lost….had a good year under doug then once doug stopped caring it went down again. Now we have a coach who will keep him accountable and coach him up and hes dominating
It’s good that most fans aren’t the GM. Some people were begging for Shedeur.
I will admit that this is something I’ve learned this season. What scared me about TLaw was that it seemed like he just didn’t have a good feel for the game. His timing, accuracy, and touch were all off (other than a rare dime once every other game or so)…all things that I thought were largely natural traits and not coachable. Now I wonder how Mahomes, someone who’s always seemed to have those natural traits and an amazing feel for the game, would have fared if he had to endure the level of coaching that Trevor did.
Goff is the most interesting QB to me. Made multiple Pro Bowls and a SB with the Rams by the time he was 26 years old, but got the bust treatment. Traded to Detroit and has taken them to heights Stafford never took them, but then Stafford takes the Rams to heights Goff never took them.
As one of Trevor’s toughest critics on this board, I’ll say this much: **He’s done enough in the last 5 weeks for me to keep an open mind**. That’s a lot more than I would have said 6 weeks ago. I think it’s way premature for us to be taking victory laps as he’s had flashes before and then regressed, but I’ll admit that what he’s doing now feels like it could have the makings of something more.
I’ll also say that I do believe that he’s had crap organizational support up to this point. For starters, he spent too many years behind awful lines. I could go on, but I won’t.
But with all of that said, Trevor has been part of the problem. Maybe he didn’t care because he didn’t think the organization did, IDK. Each time a new coach came on board, he seemed to take a brief step forward with his mechanics and accuracy but always regressed. He also came to each training camp looking like shit. All of these things, to a fan base as knowledgeable as any in the country, were obvious signs that Trevor wasn’t putting in the work, especially over the offseason.
I truly believe that Trevor could be great. So did everyone else when he was drafted. But we need more than a handful of games to break out the anointing oil. Hopefully he really wants this now. That starts with him not coming back to training camp unable to hit the side of a damned barn from 25 yards. I for one hope so because a very good Trevor could be fun for some time to come, but I have to reserve judgment until I see it.