if that's the metric used then sure. but there's more moving parts involved than that with all these guys that flame out |
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By Brutus on 13:43:24 04/24/24 [In reply to "I agree. Just saying he hasn’t overachieved relative to his draft position. At least not yet.*" by BayAreaBuck, posted at 13:28:45 04/24/24] Mahomes is the best of this generation. He also got to sit for a year, watched Alex Smith and had an established offensive guy in Andy Reid as HC. lot of stability. most of these other guys, ones that totally tank to others that have some success in the league go to defensive head coaches or front offices on their way out or completely rebuilding rosters or teams in cap hell or go through constant coordinator changes etc etc sorry...it's a pet peeve and one of the reasons I haven't been that into the draft the last few years. A guy like Trey Lance was drafted into a great situation and organization and even though they traded up a lot to get him still had great infrastructure around him. And he did nothing and is basically completely forgotten about now. A guy like Fields who was drafted into a bad situation (HC and GM fired a year later, team in cap hell and a barren roster) and the team gave up assets to get Fields so the rebuild would be prolonged gets much more criticism because he was actually still playing (unlike Lance who was stapled to a bench most of his career). And the second the Bears start putting some pieces together and show some signs of life and Fields starts to show some progress - he has to go because the Bears lucked into a #1 overall pick because of the Panthers complete ineptitude. Fields is labelled a bust and while the passing numbers aren't great and the Ws and Ls aren't great - he isn't and wasn't a bad player. Crappy deal for sure. And Fields will get one more chance at some point even if it's just one game to shine. and he needs to take advantage.
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