KiwiHawk
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I'll go on record as saying John Gruden would give 2 first-rounders and a blank cheque to sign Wilson for the Raiders, just in case anyone thinks the franchise tag is a safe way to go.
It would seem . concrete iron clad post smh irrefutable undeniable hahaha oh .net your the bees kneesLTH":3rrwycnm said:Well... there it is... he must be elite!
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KiwiHawk":axuzndo0 said:I'll go on record as saying John Gruden would give 2 first-rounders and a blank cheque to sign Wilson for the Raiders, just in case anyone thinks the franchise tag is a safe way to go.
I just can’t see Russell agreeing to go there for any amount of money while Cable still has a job there.KiwiHawk":3mti4wiq said:I'll go on record as saying John Gruden would give 2 first-rounders and a blank cheque to sign Wilson for the Raiders, just in case anyone thinks the franchise tag is a safe way to go.
brimsalabim":1xg6l35k said:I just can’t see Russell agreeing to go there for any amount of money while Cable still has a job there.KiwiHawk":1xg6l35k said:I'll go on record as saying John Gruden would give 2 first-rounders and a blank cheque to sign Wilson for the Raiders, just in case anyone thinks the franchise tag is a safe way to go.
He can’t do it consistently on the road. Those domes screw up the trajectory.chris98251":1ts58fhs said:Just wish he could throw a decent deep ball, needs more arm strength to get it 70 yards in the air and 70 yards deep and a Air Traffic control coordinator to redirect Airplane traffic during games.
TwistedHusky":2ogvj8yl said:When you are paying your QB 30M a year, you create holes in the team. (We are not paying him this, but we will have to)
You have lesser players at certain, often still key, positions.
Your 30M QB is supposed to be good enough to make up for that.
The problem is that is really hard to do. Aaron Rodgers screwed the Packers by assuring that they could not pay a defense and if they lucked into a great defensive player - they were sure to lose him as soon as FA appeared. Because a giant chunk of the money had to go to the QB.
We are not that bad off right now. But all the excuses people have made for Wilson are gone. He needs to win playoff games like elite QBs do. It won't be enough to constantly fling up moon shots, 3 and out, then have the defense repeatedly shut the door and then eventually have one of those moonshots hit. You won't just be able to hang around for 3 quarters and then suddenly start producing in the 4th - he is going to have to be the one that drives us for TDs against a good team with likely a good defense. That is how the playoffs work.
There won't be any room for excuses. And there should not need to be, he has shown he is more than capable of being great in stretches. We just need that stretch to hit during the playoffs.
Elite QBs do this. QBs on the tier just below that, do a decent job but there is always some reason they could not take that next jump. I have always contended that Wilson is in the 5-7 range, which I am happy for. Can he make the next jump and be a guy that wins us playoff games in spite of not having the all-everything defense he is used to? Now that he has one of the best running games in NFL, can he take advantage of that to beat teams with better records when it counts most?
All the reasons people gave for why he shouldn't be expected to produce CONSISTENTLY like the other elite QBs are gone - he needs to produce playoff wins outside of the wildcard games when HE is the lead horse. He has not done that since Lynch left. But he had no line and terrible coordinators. Now that is changed, so the results need to change too.