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QB Jameis Winston, NYG (4 Viewers)

Remove fantasy football from the equation.

Mason Rudolph had 1 awful game, wherein a guy ripped off his helmet and assaulted him with it. Set aside that one game, and Rudolph averaged:

64% completions, 12-5 TD/TO ratio, and a passer rating over 80 in all but 1 game. He did this despite being thrown into an offense with a mediocre(to put it kindly) playcaller in an offense that was built for a 16 year veteran, that was missing their #1 WR, and #1 RB for chunks of the season, and they were limited even when they were playing. Leaving 4 guys with almost no experience to carry the load(Samuels,Snell, Washington, Johnson) 

Even with the Browns game, Rudolph had 62% completions, 13/9 TD/TO ratio, and a passer rating over 80 in all but 2 games. (80%)

Also these were the 1st 10 starts of Rudolph's career.

Winston on the other hand:

60% completions, 33-35 TD/TO ratio, and a passer rating under 80 a whopping 8(50%) times. This despite the best WR combo in the NFL, and an excellent playcaller. Winston also has been starting for 5 years, yet he's still making rookie mistakes(probably more than he made as an actual rookie) In his defense Evans and Godwin both got hurt late in the year, but the sample size is plenty big enough by that point. 

I don't think people realize how poorly Winston played last year. Tampa Bay missed the playoffs because of Winston. He cost them at least 4 games by himself. Rudolph cost the Steelers the Browns game, no argument there, that is really it. 

I have argued in a different thread that going from Winston to Brady alone, makes the Bucs a playoff team. I think Brady, BY HIMSELF, is worth 2-6 wins more than Winston, even at 43 years of age.

Winston takes a lot more off the table than he adds to it. He shouldn't be starting for any NFL team in my opinion, and I would much rather take my chances on a guy like Mason Rudolph, as well as some other small sample size QB's, who I think the jury is still out on. We know what Winston is, and it isn't a successful QB.

 
Someone will pick him up as a backup and see if he improves. It’d be suicide to bring him in as a starter, the coach and gm will be fired at the end of the year.
with no interest in him it seems like he can be had for pretty low cost.  I'm not sure there is much risk there...

 
Teams are really going to get a bargain ... Winston clearly has starter's talent; he's just a knucklehead. In this era where QBs are stupid overpaid (Tannehill/Foles/etc), it's really an oddity that he's still on the market. I think the bigger issue is the teams with the really good offensive QB gurus aren't looking to take a "project"; Colts nabbed Rivers due to familiarity with Reich, Chargers and Anthony Lynn value Tyrod Taylor because he worked with him for a few years. Due to that and the sudden signing of Brady by the Bucs, Winston's market hasn't remotely materialized in the way he thought it would.

 
I think he'd undervalued because IMO there is a lot of talent in that guy.  But coaches don't like players that turn the ball over.  Simple as that.

ETA:  I am also starting to wonder if GMs/Owners think COVID may wreck part of the season.  So they are backing off on higher priced FA signings that would have mucho guaranteed $s in them.

 
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Losing Rivers is a major blow to Keenan Allen's fantasy value. I'll take these Pick-6 machine over tyrod every day of the week. Keenan's targets would be double with Winston over Tyrod.

Winston to SD. Make it happen. Who cares if they lose and he throws 3 INTs a game. It's all about my fantasy team.

 
Remove fantasy football from the equation.

Mason Rudolph had 1 awful game, wherein a guy ripped off his helmet and assaulted him with it. Set aside that one game, and Rudolph averaged:

64% completions, 12-5 TD/TO ratio, and a passer rating over 80 in all but 1 game. He did this despite being thrown into an offense with a mediocre(to put it kindly) playcaller in an offense that was built for a 16 year veteran, that was missing their #1 WR, and #1 RB for chunks of the season, and they were limited even when they were playing. Leaving 4 guys with almost no experience to carry the load(Samuels,Snell, Washington, Johnson) 

Even with the Browns game, Rudolph had 62% completions, 13/9 TD/TO ratio, and a passer rating over 80 in all but 2 games. (80%)

Also these were the 1st 10 starts of Rudolph's career.

Winston on the other hand:

60% completions, 33-35 TD/TO ratio, and a passer rating under 80 a whopping 8(50%) times. This despite the best WR combo in the NFL, and an excellent playcaller. Winston also has been starting for 5 years, yet he's still making rookie mistakes(probably more than he made as an actual rookie) In his defense Evans and Godwin both got hurt late in the year, but the sample size is plenty big enough by that point. 

I don't think people realize how poorly Winston played last year. Tampa Bay missed the playoffs because of Winston. He cost them at least 4 games by himself. Rudolph cost the Steelers the Browns game, no argument there, that is really it. 

I have argued in a different thread that going from Winston to Brady alone, makes the Bucs a playoff team. I think Brady, BY HIMSELF, is worth 2-6 wins more than Winston, even at 43 years of age.

Winston takes a lot more off the table than he adds to it. He shouldn't be starting for any NFL team in my opinion, and I would much rather take my chances on a guy like Mason Rudolph, as well as some other small sample size QB's, who I think the jury is still out on. We know what Winston is, and it isn't a successful QB.
100%

This situation is amusing to me. We've known all along that Winston was a terrible QB. It's like the NFL finally worked it out and put aside his draft status and "potential" because the reality was finally too obvious. 

 
I think 'kudos' was used wrong here and gave off the wrong impression. I don't think he knows what kudos are. That, I guess, says something, but "kudos to me" in the context of what he was saying just sounds like a misuse of the word.

 
rockaction said:
I think 'kudos' was used wrong here and gave off the wrong impression. I don't think he knows what kudos are. That, I guess, says something, but "kudos to me" in the context of what he was saying just sounds like a misuse of the word.
oh, he knows what they are...  

(rootin for you Jameis!)

 
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i couldn't either and no time to fix.  (old school spoiler alert ... link was for Kudos Granola Bars)-
We used to have those as a kid because the Moms thought they were better for you than candy bars.

Here's a pro tip, Ma: they weren't. 

 
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette considers the Steelers unlikely to pursue free agent Jameis Winston as Ben Roethlisberger's backup. 

Pittsburgh has been a popular choice when people brainstorm Winston destinations, but reporter Brian Batko considers it unlikely for a number of reasons. Winston has drawn Roethlisberger comparisons at times throughout his career, but Big Ben has never been quite as erratic on the field. So far, Winston's market has seemed cold as ice, but he is a starting-level talent who will instantly become one of the league's best backups as soon as he signs. As the Steelers learned the hard way in 2019, they badly need an upgrade behind Roethlisberger. 

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Pittsburgh Steelers

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Apr 9, 2020, 3:35 PM ET

 
C'mon Chargers. You are not really going with Tyrod are ya?
Haha.  I suppose crazier things have happened,  but I would be blown away if that happens.  Lynn is too risk averse for that. Only remote chance is if Taylor gets hurt and they don't draft a QB.  And even then I would be surprised. 

 
I apologize.

He played 1 'relevant' year in college.

He wasnt getting drafted prior to this year. My statement was incorrect. I meant only one year put him on the map. I should have stated it better
Finishing #6 isn't relevant?  They beat #8 Miami, #7 Auburn, #2 Georgia, #22 Mississippi State, and won the Fiesta Bowl over the red-hot UCF team.  He threw for almost 3000 yard and 23 TD's coming into the program at the end of May that "non-relevant" season ffs.  At OSU he sat behind golden boy JT Barrett and then Haskins who threw for 50 TD's that year. 

 
rockaction said:
I think 'kudos' was used wrong here and gave off the wrong impression. I don't think he knows what kudos are. That, I guess, says something, but "kudos to me" in the context of what he was saying just sounds like a misuse of the word.
I think the author mis-spelled crab legs.

 
I think the author mis-spelled crab legs.
I was going to work a joke like that in, believe it or not.

Ahhh Jameis. There's sort of a Twitter war going on with he and David Carr, I think. Some online e-rag had posted a video of him training under pressure (he's getting a large medicine ball swung at him) and David Carr tweeted that he should "hire somebody other than his friends to train him" or something like that. Peeps got upset. 

Here's the story. Pretty lame all around. No crab leg jokes.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/04/09/david-carr-chides-jameis-winston-for-training-choices/

 
I was going to work a joke like that in, believe it or not.

Ahhh Jameis. There's sort of a Twitter war going on with he and David Carr, I think. Some online e-rag had posted a video of him training under pressure (he's getting a large medicine ball swung at him) and David Carr tweeted that he should "hire somebody other than his friends to train him" or something like that. Peeps got upset. 

Here's the story. Pretty lame all around. No crab leg jokes.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/04/09/david-carr-chides-jameis-winston-for-training-choices/
David Carr had his own issues at playing QB in the NFL, he should probably keep to himself on things like this.

 
Finishing #6 isn't relevant?  They beat #8 Miami, #7 Auburn, #2 Georgia, #22 Mississippi State, and won the Fiesta Bowl over the red-hot UCF team.  He threw for almost 3000 yard and 23 TD's coming into the program at the end of May that "non-relevant" season ffs.  At OSU he sat behind golden boy JT Barrett and then Haskins who threw for 50 TD's that year. 
Is this the wrong thread? 

Burrow might have been the 4th or 5th QB taken from the SEC if they all could have been drafted last year. I'm not sure he'd have gone ahead of stidham. He definitely earned the chance in 2019.

 
David Carr had his own issues at playing QB in the NFL, he should probably keep to himself on things like this.
Dude was a coward and couldn't even grasp the easiest parts of being an NFL QB. I mean who runs out of bounds behind the LOS when you can throw the ball 15 rows into the seats? David Carr, that's who. Kubiak said it all when he arrived there and said 'How can you not know that", referring to something else that was NFL QB 101 as well.

 
lod001 said:
Dude was a coward and couldn't even grasp the easiest parts of being an NFL QB. I mean who runs out of bounds behind the LOS when you can throw the ball 15 rows into the seats? David Carr, that's who. Kubiak said it all when he arrived there and said 'How can you not know that", referring to something else that was NFL QB 101 as well.
There’s a lot of criticism to be had of Winston but being a coward isn’t one. They both might fail but it will be for total opposite reasons. Interesting contrast. 

 
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There’s a lot of criticism to be had of Winston but being a coward isn’t one. They both might fail but it will be or total opposite reasons. Interesting contrast. 
Carr is the coward. read it again.

 
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David Carr had his own issues at playing QB in the NFL, he should probably keep to himself on things like this.
Nobody in this thread or forum has ever played in the nfl sooooooooo...? 
 

David Carr is in the top 99.9999% of people to ever grip a football. I’m pretty sure he can have an opinion. 
 

edit: his opinion is stupid here but he at least has the credentials to have it. 

 
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Nobody in this thread or forum has ever played in the nfl sooooooooo...? 
 

David Carr is in the top 99.9999% of people to ever grip a football. I’m pretty sure he can have an opinion. 
 

edit: his opinion is stupid here but he at least has the credentials to have it. 
Sure but it seems pretty classless calling the guy out publicly like that on ESPN or NFLN. Winston doesn’t even have a job now. Just seems like a former QB who knows how tough the job is and how terrible the media can be might show a little more professional respect. 

 
Sure but it seems pretty classless calling the guy out publicly like that on ESPN or NFLN. Winston doesn’t even have a job now. Just seems like a former QB who knows how tough the job is and how terrible the media can be might show a little more professional respect. 
I totally agree I just always dislike the “he sucked in the nfl so what does he know” shtick - commonly applied to guys like Trent Dilfer too. They’ve climbed to the top of an almost impossible mountain. 

 
I totally agree I just always dislike the “he sucked in the nfl so what does he know” shtick - commonly applied to guys like Trent Dilfer too. They’ve climbed to the top of an almost impossible mountain. 
Oh I agree Carr knows plenty. I can see where you are coming from. It wasn’t a shot at his knowledge at all, just lack of empathy.

 
NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports free agent Jameis Winston is "being methodical" with his decisions on the open market.

"It is possible that he waits until after the draft to take advantage of a team that thought they were going to get [a quarterback] and did not end up taking one," Rapoport added on Winston's status. The only thing methodical about Winston's "choices" in free agency are the number of teams — an ongoing list that includes the Redskins, Patriots, and Steelers — reportedly bowing out. With no realistic suitor in mind, consider it written that the 26-year-old transition from leading the league in passing yards (5,102) to backing up a capable veteran only one year later. Winston shouldn't be expected to latch on with another franchise until May.

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New England Patriots

, Pittsburgh Steelers

, Washington Redskins

SOURCE: Ian Rapoport on Twitter

Apr 20, 2020, 3:44 PM ET

 

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