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I posted this in the Minnesota Vikings thread about Jameis because I thought I was here. Might as well post it here.
I think the reason fans love Jameis is because he throws a nice deep ball and plays exciting. Nobody is fooling themselves that Jameis will control himself and not turn the ball over playing hero ball. You know how baseball went all analytics and it bored the hell out of fans and made the game unwatchable with the shifting and the platooning and the constant bullpen match-ups? Seems like the modern movement towards short passing and the running game is doing the same in football. Fans are looking for gunslinging quarterbacks because they're exciting. Nothing is more boring than watching a team have to piddle its way down the field against a Fangio-copied defense. I mean, you've reduced guys like Mahomes into dink and dunk guys. That's not cool to watch.
It's not fun football to watch, anyway. Jameis takes shots and fans love Jameis. Chicks dig the long ball. All that stuff goes into it.
There, you've been put on notice regarding why a crappy team's fans will rejoice at a Jameis signing. Fans of that team will get to watch exciting, sometimes competent football that is up-and-down and all around with the turnovers, too. For the moments that ball is in the air, the excitement is crazy, even when he makes one of those horrible throws into triple coverage where even the receiver wants to know what the heck he's doing. It might cost you the game, but at least it's more exciting than watching Daniel Jones miss every throw and scrape out five yards a pop with an RPO that is aesthetically unpleasing beyond a doubt.
"Ooh look, there's a fifty-yard bomb!"
"Wait, you haven't seen Daniel Jones break off five yards on the ground!"
That's why the fans love Jameis even when they groan about him. At least you feel alive for a minute and have hope.
Oh, and from a fantasy perspective? What on earth are we talking about that he hurts fantasy receivers? If you watched Jerry Jeudy last year compared to any year prior to that, you already have an inkling and can be pretty much assured that Nabers will thrive with Jameis. It's not out of the realm of possibility that Nabers benefits from him like he would an excellent QB; in fact, it's almost a near certainty. The years Jameis has started enough games he's always carried his receivers with him. Spencer Tillman? Jerry Jeudy? I mean, who the heck were these guys in fantasy before Jameis? I can tell you who they were before. Big, fat nobodies before Jameis. Godwin. Evans. Not throwing shade on names here, but Godwin and Evans had their best years with Jameis and Brady, and I'd argue that Godwin was better with Jameis. When Jameis started for the Saints, Olave had huge days.
Those hating Jameis strike me as being too smart for their own good and too much of a football purist for their own reckoning. The team that signs him and starts him will lose enough to have a high draft pick, will be in the game until the turnovers happen (whenever they come and when they don't, serendipity!), the game itself will be exciting, and all the offensive guys will benefit. What the heck is there not to like from a fantasy or fan perspective with Winston if you're not in contention for the Super Bowl?
I think the reason fans love Jameis is because he throws a nice deep ball and plays exciting. Nobody is fooling themselves that Jameis will control himself and not turn the ball over playing hero ball. You know how baseball went all analytics and it bored the hell out of fans and made the game unwatchable with the shifting and the platooning and the constant bullpen match-ups? Seems like the modern movement towards short passing and the running game is doing the same in football. Fans are looking for gunslinging quarterbacks because they're exciting. Nothing is more boring than watching a team have to piddle its way down the field against a Fangio-copied defense. I mean, you've reduced guys like Mahomes into dink and dunk guys. That's not cool to watch.
It's not fun football to watch, anyway. Jameis takes shots and fans love Jameis. Chicks dig the long ball. All that stuff goes into it.
There, you've been put on notice regarding why a crappy team's fans will rejoice at a Jameis signing. Fans of that team will get to watch exciting, sometimes competent football that is up-and-down and all around with the turnovers, too. For the moments that ball is in the air, the excitement is crazy, even when he makes one of those horrible throws into triple coverage where even the receiver wants to know what the heck he's doing. It might cost you the game, but at least it's more exciting than watching Daniel Jones miss every throw and scrape out five yards a pop with an RPO that is aesthetically unpleasing beyond a doubt.
"Ooh look, there's a fifty-yard bomb!"
"Wait, you haven't seen Daniel Jones break off five yards on the ground!"
That's why the fans love Jameis even when they groan about him. At least you feel alive for a minute and have hope.
Oh, and from a fantasy perspective? What on earth are we talking about that he hurts fantasy receivers? If you watched Jerry Jeudy last year compared to any year prior to that, you already have an inkling and can be pretty much assured that Nabers will thrive with Jameis. It's not out of the realm of possibility that Nabers benefits from him like he would an excellent QB; in fact, it's almost a near certainty. The years Jameis has started enough games he's always carried his receivers with him. Spencer Tillman? Jerry Jeudy? I mean, who the heck were these guys in fantasy before Jameis? I can tell you who they were before. Big, fat nobodies before Jameis. Godwin. Evans. Not throwing shade on names here, but Godwin and Evans had their best years with Jameis and Brady, and I'd argue that Godwin was better with Jameis. When Jameis started for the Saints, Olave had huge days.
Those hating Jameis strike me as being too smart for their own good and too much of a football purist for their own reckoning. The team that signs him and starts him will lose enough to have a high draft pick, will be in the game until the turnovers happen (whenever they come and when they don't, serendipity!), the game itself will be exciting, and all the offensive guys will benefit. What the heck is there not to like from a fantasy or fan perspective with Winston if you're not in contention for the Super Bowl?
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