Was Picking up Stafford Really a Good Move

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Too early to call but Wentz has a chance to be on that list
Kind of an interesting one, because his second year in Philly was very successful

Indy probably will give him more long term success though, if he can stay healthy
 

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Some good examples on that list (Brees/Favre notwithstanding). Tannehill is a good current example and Steve Young from the past. Might be good to set up some criteria and see what pops out...maybe a guy who had a winning percentage of 50% or under then having success? It looks like Stafford was 44% at Detroit. That is higher than I would have guessed, but that is because the last three years was 36%.
 

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This highly opinionated OP is just like Enfuego. Everything he touches backfires.
I`ll bookmark this thread and bump it when Matt is in the championship game.
Mr know it all New Yorker.
Not a fan of yours at all.
 

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This highly opinionated OP is just like Enfuego. Everything he touches backfires.
I`ll bookmark this thread and bump it when Matt is in the championship game.
Mr know it all New Yorker.
Not a fan of yours at all.
From a guy with 5 posts
Hmmm
 

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This highly opinionated OP is just like Enfuego. Everything he touches backfires.
I`ll bookmark this thread and bump it when Matt is in the championship game.
Mr know it all New Yorker.
Not a fan of yours at all.
Jeez..
 

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I'll stick by it. Stafford isn't that good. He really isn't. The team around him is stacked. If he protects the football, he wins. That's what a good team around you will do.

Rams by 3. If Stafford doesnt choke.
 

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Usually putting all this talent together like the Rams did, doesn't work. But they made it happen when it mattered. Props to them.

Donald. What a beast...
 

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I knew Stafford would excel in LA. He played like a superstar as often as not
in Detroit; the best QB in that town since Bobby Layne.

Goff? Pffffftt. :tombstone

The Rams will be contenders for another few YEARS. He's the missing piece
to that whole puzzle.
 

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I'll stick by it. Stafford isn't that good. He really isn't. The team around him is stacked. If he protects the football, he wins. That's what a good team around you will do.

Rams by 3. If Stafford doesnt choke.
He almost chocked against the Niners.

Lucky for the Rams Jimmy G was worse.
 

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Stafford is probably the best of the non-top tier QBs, 1 of the best of them anyway.

If you build a good team around him, you can win. But can’t say the last month has changed my opinion of him or anything.

He was awful vs good teams all year and is always an injury risk. But you can win with him, he’s better than dak, cousins, tanny, murray, JimmyG but not by much. And probably less durable than most.

Still props to him for taking advantage of good fortune, that’s a big part of what football is all about
 

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lol what

yes during the regular season he was awful vs good teams for the most part.....SF 2x, Tenn, AZ the 1st meeting when they were playing well before they collapsed, GB they hit a few bombs but the game wasn't very competitive.

Dude led the league in INT's despite playing with an absolutely uncoverable receiver, it wasn't smooth sailing
 

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Good may not be the best term, more like necessary given their situation. Goff in '19-20 wasn't the same player as '17-18.

Stafford is like 10 other QB's in the NFL, if you put him in the right situation he can succeed and the team can be a high end team (Carr, Dak, Tanny, Mac Attack, Burrow, Wentz, JimmyG, Cousins, Ryan, Jameis give or take) but he's had a history of injury issues and Woods was a very underrated loss, Whitworth their LT is almost 40 years old and got worked yesterday. Staff is solid but is what he is, he's done this 3-4x in his career in new situations and always cameback to the pack.

As far as mortgaging their future, I think people do tend to overrate that. If I were an owner, I wouldn't really care if I sucked for 2-3 years after going for it, infact that's probably what I'd intend to do. The bag gets split up evenly either way in the NFL.

yeah this was my opinion then and it is my opinion now....super necessary move as Jorge Masvidal would say, team needed a change of scenery but the gap between Staff/Goff probably isn't worth 2 1st rd picks in terms of pure value.

I liked the Miller and OBJ moves a lot though, it is always weird to me when fans say a team is "screwed in the future"

Who cares? 1 team wins, no risk it no biscuit, scared money don't make money. But then again people think Harbaugh shouldn't have gone for 2 vs the Packers so I dunno, risk aversion is a strong impulse. You don't even really take a financial hit in the NFL if these moves don't workout, some other owner just has to split the money with you when 37 million people are watching his team in the playoffs and not yours.

They ain't drafting another Aaron Donald or Cooper Kupp in Kroenke's lifetime unless him and his billionaire buddies figure out how blood harvesting from the young solves human death.
 

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He was awful vs good teams all year and is always an injury risk. But you can win with him, he’s better than dak, cousins, tanny, murray, JimmyG but not by much. And probably less durable than most.
You must be thinking about somebody else. He started 120 - plus games from 2011 through 2018, after his first 2
injury - marred seasons,

Started all 17 this year too. :+clueless
 

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No, I was thinking of him. He missed half of 2019 with a fucked up back (anyone that has had back issues knows how much that can linger), battled tons of injuries in 2020 and this year there were reports he was banged up pretty badly (I suppose this timely news item could've just been an excuse for his midseason slump but does sound like his back is just a chronic thing for him)


And he turns 34 next week.
 

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