fleet wrote:When you put it that way…..
this is a fair point. However, the sack numbers are creeping back up, and stats can become empty calories. So some things to watch.
Sort of funny, these types of comparisons just strike me as such silly damage control.
On the one hand:
Yes - Caleb is improving
On the other hand:
Caleb was a "generational talent" taken #1 in the draft, where the opportunity cost was an absolutely massive haul of draft picks and picking a different QB in this draft class.
That throw Goff made to end the half, I don't remember Caleb having a throw like that in the NFL yet. I might have missed one last year in the general misery of the Bears, but that's the type of throw you need a generational talent to make.
So on the one hand, I'm happy that game 2 this year was probably the most accurate I've seen Caleb throw the ball, and given we're tied to him, all you can do is hope he continues to show incremental improvement, because we can't go back in time. That said, we have a long way to go before I'm sold on him though.
I'll be patient because there's literally nothing else to do except give him the best environment we can, cross our fingers, and hope for the best, but I'll also note it's a pretty long road from here to elite QB, and he sure has a lot of red flags at this point too.
