REAL FOOTBALL Thread

Tom Brady could allegedly throw it 60. I would never say BRady had an amazing arm strength. He could air it out of course and he wasn't weak, and I tihnk Baker is similar. HE's got a good enough arm, but acting like he's some kind of missile. Baker's best asset is what's between the ears. His ability ot analyze, and improvise are his best assets. If he didn't have that, he'd be out of the NFL by now.

Dude just Google it. You're wrong.

Baker is absolutely top 5ish in NFL among starters.
 
Dude just Google it. You're wrong.

Baker is absolutely top 5ish in NFL among starters.
I don't see it. I watch a lot of baker and his arm talent is not shit, but it isn't what stands out. Like using your own analogy, it would say that JJ McCarthy has a stronger arm than Justin Herbert and no one believes that.
 
I don't see it. I watch a lot of baker and his arm talent is not shit, but it isn't what stands out. Like using your own analogy, it would say that JJ McCarthy has a stronger arm than Justin Herbert and no one believes that.


"The rest of the top 10 after Allen: Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert, Lamar Jackson, Matthew Stafford, Baker Mayfield, Joe Burrow, Caleb Williams, Michael Penix Jr. and Jordan Love."




This next site tracks velocity of QBs that threw at the combine from 08-23. Baker is top 5 among all QBs drafted in during this time that we have data for.

 
Drake London was easily the best WR in his class. So good.
I feel bad for Wilson and Olave, they wound up in such terrible places. I think they're good receivers but Wilson has never had a great QB, and Olave has huge concussion issues. But London seems like a great dude and a good WR. I think there's an interesting debate to the value as a later pick PIckens brings but his head case issues make you ignore that debate.
 
Honestly, he needs a real through look, I want to look at the league leaders, but aside from scoring he still has to be up their as a leader in Yards from Scrimmage with a bye.
Yup, he's the number 1 in Yards from Scrimmage ahead of guys with 6 games like McCaffery, Taylor, Puka and JSN.
 
Drake London was easily the best WR in his class. So good.

Dude is amazingly good considering he's one of the slower wide outs in the league. He's never going to outrun a defender but that's not his game. He has a nose for holes in the zone and when to drop an anchor there. He also uses his body incredibly well to block out DBs, all of whom are smaller than him. He's willing to block too which just adds to his value.

He's like a skinny, WR version of Tony Gonzalez. Same skill set and cerebral play.

The non-Falcons comp I put on him is Keenan Allen. They're super similar. I'll even wager Allen is why Drake refused to run the 40 before the draft. Allen ran a 4.7 and fell two rounds. Drake didn't run and just said if he did it would be around 4.5 (which I don't believe at all). If he runs a 4.7 he's probably a second rounder.

Finally, his circus catch ability was over hyped. Not that he can't do it, he can. It's just not something that comes up a lot. He'll catch 30-40 balls by finding holes in the zone or blocking out a DB for every one circus catch.
 
Dude is amazingly good considering he's one of the slower wide outs in the league. He's never going to outrun a defender but that's not his game. He has a nose for holes in the zone and when to drop an anchor there. He also uses his body incredibly well to block out DBs, all of whom are smaller than him. He's willing to block too which just adds to his value.

He's like a skinny, WR version of Tony Gonzalez. Same skill set and cerebral play.

The non-Falcons comp I put on him is Keenan Allen. They're super similar. I'll even wager Allen is why Drake refused to run the 40 before the draft. Allen ran a 4.7 and fell two rounds. Drake didn't run and just said if he did it would be around 4.5 (which I don't believe at all). If he runs a 4.7 he's probably a second rounder.

Finally, his circus catch ability was over hyped. Not that he can't do it, he can. It's just not something that comes up a lot. He'll catch 30-40 balls by finding holes in the zone or blocking out a DB for every one circus catch.
I would comp him to Travis Kelce. Tony G was a great athlete. Hard to compare 40 times from back then to now because back then they didn't train on it. They just ran it. Now they have coaches who teach them how to shave 10ths of a second off. I don't think it's a coincidence that since 2000 combine times have gotten faster, the league has also gotten faster, but some of it is combine times. Jerry Rice ran a slow 40 but he was not slow, he didn't care.
 
NFL either has a ton of parity, or lot sof teams are frauds, Chargers lost to the Colts, Giants almost upset the Broncos. There's like the toilet teams (Raiders, jets, and Titans) and then anything goes.
 
I don't think Penix is bad. I do question still he's that dude.

Niners plain and simple out coached the falcons on both sides of the ball. They took away our run game and we floundered offensively and they played a controlled offensive game and we squandered it.
 
This Falcons team is ridiculously poorly coached. Raheem Morris was a loser hire when we made it and if anything he's actually been worse than even I expected. We had 10 men on the field on a crucial 3rd and 13. Seriously?!?!?

Penix looks to have gotten worse since last year. Whatever coaching he's getting is making him more timid and indecisive. He was a gunslinger in college but it's like the Falcons staff is trying to beat that out of him. A guy with a huge arm that's afraid to throw it is useless.

But this is what you get when you hire a HC with one of the worst records of anyone alive.
 
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