Yeah sure why not… he still has to complete the throws and play well in order to get the stats.Well would you have told us ahead of time that he would pace for the 12th most passing attempts ever in a season?
Otherwise known as ‘f*** running the ball…’
Maybe we just need to acknowledge that he’s not a good coach, period? He has three winning seasons in 13 as a head coach and each of his three winning seasons were followed by losing seasons so it’s not like he was able to sustain a culture of success either. He’s a super good dude and seemingly a great leader of men but I think from an Xs and Os perspective as well as from a talent evaluation perspective he’s never shown to be anything better than average, at best.
Well I don't base my opinions on volume of sports ghoul chatter. LOL
This is where I sit too. You’d like to “hope” they won’t be a 4 or 5 win team under the new regime, unless they sell everything off on purpose (like Car or AZ).
I think he's been asked to shoulder too much of the offense as a second year guy who was selected in the fifth round with a first year OC and a dumpster fire burning around him. He's certainly had some struggles but any time you are asked to throw the ball as often as he's been asked to throw it, especially as a young guy being a starter for the first time and being behind a porous offensive line, you're going to have growing pains. He's by no means perfect or a slam dunk to succeed and has a ton of room to improve but he's got all of the physical tools and a lot of the intangibles that you'd want in a QB. Unless you think you're getting a bonafide superstar I don't see how using one of their five top 100 picks on a QB makes any sense given this front office and coaching staff and likely a lot of the roster will be reset from scratch.Yeah, I agree. The way the game is stacked against DBs these days, damn near any starter given the number of swings EB is handing out could put up a lot of yards. And that's really all it is, yards. The rest of his stats are either middling or abysmal.
With the entirety of the situation taken into consideration, however, I do think ABro's point still holds up. Howell has shown enough under hellacious circumstances to earn QB1 here and dispel any notion that we should consider drafting another one early.
And I watch enough NFL coverage to see that most of the punditry out there agrees, including current and ex-NFL players. The Kelces were very impressed with him on their podcast a few weeks ago, and McAfee, Hawk, and their guys all say he's "a dawg" while barking and clapping, which I assume is good.
We have a keeper at QB. Now all we gotta do is go find about 30 more to other positions and a coach to wrangle 'em.
He's finished as a coach in this league, period, I think. Who would even give him a DC job after this? Half of his defense were first round picks and they were literally the worst defense in the NFL this year. If the defense was even average this team is in the playoffs.
You guys are missing the Snyder Factor. I'm guessing there's enough hatred for Snyder around the league that just about anyone coming out of the WFT environment is going to have a bit of a discount on their behavior for a short time period.
