PaulinVA wrote:But he just placed really indecisive and held the ball a really long time.
Yes, while running for his life.
I said his line was bad Sunday, not all year. They were banged up.
And I agree, outside of Rice and now sadly, to a lesser extent Kelce, KC's pass catchers are bad.
If Mahomes can't compensate for a bad o-line, who can?
QBs in the modern NFL are, IMO, overpaid relative to their contribution to team performance. Mahomes is a good example. Next year, his cap hit will be $57 million, versus total cap around $240 million. So one player is getting almost 25% of the cap. Mahomes is incredible, wonderful talent- but he's also so expensive that KC can't afford to give him the tools he needs to succeed.
SF is a juggernaut, and they pay their QB $870K a year. They can afford to retain top players because they aren't spending everything at the QB slot.
If the Commanders can land a great QB in the draft, then they'll have a huge competitive advantage for his first four years. The mystery is why it seems no one can figure out what college QBs will make great pros.
BTW this stuff about "Sam Howell can't be a good QB. After all, he's a fifth round pick," is such nonsense. The same logic says that it must also be true that Trey Lance, Zach Wilson and Bryce Young (and many more) are incredibly great, because they were drafted high. Sam Howell is Sam Howell. He's either good or he's not, but none of it has anything to do with where he was drafted.
