Megatron96 |
01-11-2021 06:03 PM |
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Originally Posted by htismaqe
(Post 15469665)
The biggest part of Stefanski's system is masking QB flaws, not fixing them.
I do think Mayfield is better than Cousins but you're not going to see miracles out there.
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Totally agree. But, and I could be wrong, as I've never spent any time really analyzing what Stefanski is trying to do beyond a basic Xs and Os level, I think it's like "NFL QBing for dummies," kind of thing. Break it down to a basic level, cut the field in half, whatever, give your QB fewer reads and thus decision to make, throw the ball to the first guy that's open. Let the play-makers be play-makers.
Which I think Baker really needed after the first two seasons of his career. Years 1 & 2 for Mayfield were almost like "here, for the next two seasons you aren't going to learn anything about how to be a QB except what little you can figure out for yourself, in-game in real-time."
He's basically had to start over, and he was two years in already at the start of 2020.
But my expectation is that ultimately Baker will be able to take Stefanski's system further than Kirk was able to, partly because he has a much better arm, and partly because I think he's probably going to end up being a better processor.
That second part is just a gut feeling at this point, and maybe fueled by my Sooners fandom, but I think I'm going to be right. We just won't see it until mid to late next season.
But as it stands right now, Baker is probably at least as good as Cousins overall, and he might already be better at running the offense.
His hard count is a disaster though. Really needs to work on that.
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