So I just felt like posting this comp that I saw here. BY has played 9 games so far and yes, it’s been tough. But it’s have a look at the numbers:
BY after 9 games of rookie season:
TD/Int: 9/8 Comp: 62.1% Passer rating: 74.7 W/L: 1/8
TL after 9 games of rookie season:
TD/Int: 8/9 Comp: 58% Passer rating: 72.1 W/L: 2/7
The major issue with this type of cherry-picking is that it doesn’t take into account a “flash” factor. I can deal with losing and sub-par stats from a rookie as long as we’re seeing flashes somewhat consistently of what’s in the tank and you get a sense of the guy’s ceiling. Beyond a couple of throws (the escape and dot to Thielen vs Houston and that bomb to Strachan vs Chicago), we really haven’t seen anything that makes us, or me at least, think that made a wise move to trade up.
That’s part of the way it strips away infinite contextual factors to essentially end up at a true-but-not-useful conclusion: a player who performed poorly at some point can, at another point, perform better.
Sure, Trevor Lawrence or Peyton Manning or whoever became more productive after their rookie season. Many, many more numerous players didn’t. Why did some QBs improve and others didn’t? It’s in those questions we can start to figure out BY’s capacity for success.