• conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Guys aren’t just one level. Bortles played great football to lead the Jags to competency. When he stopped being competent, so did the team. He was far better than Jacoby has ever been, let alone now, when the Jaguars were a fringe contender.

    All three of Allen’s throws, and numerous other decisions to throw his body around and just generously be ten steps beyond reckless, were terrible. They weren’t even sort of caused by anything the Jets did. He just randomly melts down a couple games a year.

    Nobody is stacking the box less with any backup QB in the league. Jacoby doesn’t get you into plays that magically beat a stacked box. He doesn’t magically make the worst line in the division capable of creating run lanes or pass protecting. He doesn’t give you a play caller who knows what a NFL offense is. They’re still a bottom 5 offense with Brissett. At least Wilson has the arm to force some balls to their only needle moving receiver.

    Wilson isn’t a good QB. But current Brissett is every bit as bad.

    • TheAndrewBrown@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I guess we’ll have to just agree to disagree. Ultimately I don’t think they have a great chance either way, but I think that chance is 0 with Wilson whereas a slightly more unknown quantity (as in, we haven’t seen them on this exact team) at least is something different. If it turns out to also be 0, you really didn’t lose all that much. It just seems 100% worth the risk to me with a team this good. Literally everything but the QB and the OL to a certain extent is excellent.