2024-2025 Season Studs n Duds

[rmontro]

For years we have had QBs who could carry the team on their shoulders. I don't think Love is as bad as you suggest. If we surround Love with enough talent we can win with him. Other teams in the postseason this year are winning without elite QBs.

Yeah, as long as Love is competent, we should be able to win with him, as long as the team is good. The problem is he's getting paid like an elite quarterback, so he's sucking up our resources.

 

[Pugger]

So you think Josh Jacobs alone gave us 6 more victories, meaning we would have went 5-12?

I don't know if it was 6 but he made the difference in several games this year.

 

[AmishMafia]

Love looked much different this year. Last season he was very smart with his throws. Always seemed to find the open guy. This year he made a bunch of bad decisions. Not sure what to make of it. Want to reflect a few days before posting more.

 

[adambr2]

Matt Lafleur is Mike McCarthy with no ring.

 

[rmontro]

I have to think there is some pressure on Gutenkurst during the off season. This team lost two games each to the Lions, Vikings, and Eagles. And we could barely beat the Bears. Obviously this team needs something. If the Bears get a good coach, we might even find ourselves in the basement. That's not going to make the GM look very good.

Love looked much different this year. Last season he was very smart with his throws. Always seemed to find the open guy. This year he made a bunch of bad decisions. Not sure what to make of it. Want to reflect a few days before posting more.

Remember though, Love only played well for half the season last year. It was the right half though, the first half he was still finding his sea legs.

 

[Zartan]

Love looked much different this year. Last season he was very smart with his throws. Always seemed to find the open guy. This year he made a bunch of bad decisions. Not sure what to make of it. Want to reflect a few days before posting more.

Isn't like we had a huge turnover in WR personal. I wanna chalk it up to him having a down year. But if we split the two years into two halfs each he only had one good half of a season.

I will give him one more season to prove himself. If he continues to be bland or worse regresses to bad QB play then we gotta think about drafting a new QB and say Gutes experiment was a failure.

 

[red4tribe]

The biggest question heading into this season (to me at least) was about Love. Would he look like the guy from the first half of last season? Or the second half? And the answer I think was somewhere in between. He’s definitely grown since he first started, but I’m not sure quite how good he is. The jury is still out and next season will be very telling.

There are sometimes problems with his decision-making, but I’m also worried about his accuracy. Too often, he misses throws, or makes easy completions difficult, which prevents YAC. The pass that sailed high to Heath was representative of that. Should have been an easy catch, but he threw it high and Heath couldn’t stay in-bounds.

I would just have thought his mechanical issues would be fixed by now.

 

[AKCheese]

For the season… I’ll try and pick two studs on both sides of the ball.
O: Jacobs, Kraft
D: McKinney, Cooper

Duds: just about all the rest. Pass rush was next to nonexistent all year. Love looks worse than he did a year ago. None of our WRs took the “step” we hoped they would (and needed them to?). ST was generally a debacle with the exception of McManus and Whelan. Investing high draft capital in “projects” has failed to pay off and it’s catching up.

I just don’t know right now. Maybe it’s too fresh but right now I feel like I felt better about the direction/trajectory of the team at the end of last season than at the end of this one. In many ways it just kind of feels like a “wasted” season, unfortunately… didn’t play poor enough to get a premier draft selection, but not really good enough to be in the “elite” tier, either, and right now it doesn’t feel like we really laid the groundwork for much to build on next year and/or didn’t have much player improvement to hang our hats on. I dunno, I guess the improvements in defense were a pleasant surprise…

Wow team of all Duds except for 4 players and we made the playoffs? NFL must be way easier than I thought! Or Matt LaFluer is one helluva coach

 

[BrokenArrow]

The season is now over so I thought I would make a Studs and Duds dedicated to players through this season.

Who was that Stud who make a difference and who was a Dud and was a waste of money.

Studs:

Jacobs
McKinney
Cooper
Kraft
Doubs
Reed
Williams
Brooks
Willis
Whelan
McManus

Duds (not going to penalize guys for being injured):
LVN
Walker
Walker
Gary
Nixon
Heath

 

[BrokenArrow]

The biggest question heading into this season (to me at least) was about Love. Would he look like the guy from the first half of last season? Or the second half? And the answer I think was somewhere in between. He’s definitely grown since he first started, but I’m not sure quite how good he is. The jury is still out and next season will be very telling.

A lot of QBs have had down years the year after a big contract and then bounce back big the following season. Terry Bradshaw was talking about it on a pregame show when a guy got his big pay day (maybe Russell Wilson or Luck?). He said guys tighten up because they suddenly feel all the pressure of having to earn the big bucks and instead of doing what got them the money, they become tentative for a while.

Next year will tell the tale on Love.

 

[BrokenArrow]

For years we have had QBs who could carry the team on their shoulders. I don't think Love is as bad as you suggest. If we surround Love with enough talent we can win with him. Other teams in the postseason this year are winning without elite QBs.

Allen, Hurts, Jackson, Daniels not elite?

 

[milani]

The biggest question heading into this season (to me at least) was about Love. Would he look like the guy from the first half of last season? Or the second half? And the answer I think was somewhere in between. He’s definitely grown since he first started, but I’m not sure quite how good he is. The jury is still out and next season will be very telling.

There are sometimes problems with his decision-making, but I’m also worried about his accuracy. Too often, he misses throws, or makes easy completions difficult, which prevents YAC. The pass that sailed high to Heath was representative of that. Should have been an easy catch, but he threw it high and Heath couldn’t stay in-bounds.

I would just have thought his mechanical issues would be fixed by now.

I was surprised to hear the announcers say that we lead the league in DROPPED passes? If that is the case we cannot put it all on Love.

 

[rmontro]

I was listening to a call in show, and someone pointed out that there's a good chance Hafley will be hunted as a head coach. Which would leave us with MLF and needing a DC again. Right when the only comfort we have is at least the defense looked good, that's not good news.

 

[milani]

I was listening to a call in show, and someone pointed out that there's a good chance Hafley will be hunted as a head coach. Which would leave us with MLF and needing a DC again. Right when the only comfort we have is at least the defense looked good, that's not good news.

If that is the case let it happen and we can go from there. If Hafley is sought out more power to him.