He plays conservatively and protects the ball better and he has a beautiful deep ball to help open up our run game. We can win the next couple weeks against lesser teams with a game manager that lets our D decide the outcome. Mitch is a pick machine.
Why are you guys so obsessed with a 3rd string QB that’s so shit 31 teams passed on him and he failed to beat Mitch out in camp twice. He’s not good, I don’t get it
Recency bias and offensive play style is my guess
Everyone just saw Mitch walk onto the field at the start of the 2nd half and chuck 2 picks. He also started in 5 games last year and was terrible in almost all of them (shoutout for his 4th quarter heroics against Brady and the Bucs)
Mason hasn’t seen the field in 2 seasons. I think a lot of people have a certain nostalgia for the 2019 season because at the time, we weren’t used to Tomlin 8-8 magic and fully expected to have 2-3 wins. Since then he’s started twice and had one good game against Cleveland backups, and one awful game where he tied the 0-8 lions but some (not me) try to write that off because of shitty weather conditions. I also think there’s a bit of a “what if” narrative with him because he looked the part for a lot of 2019 before he suffered that Earl Thomas concussion. He’s also just a broadly beleaguered guy who is more famous for getting hit with his own helmet than anything related to his football performance
Personally I think both of these guys suck and we are in serious trouble until Kenny gets back, and then we resume being in average amounts of trouble