Except Rudolph isn't 80 years old and has about a 65% accuracy rate. I honestly thought Rudolph was a borderline 1st rounder, so I think it was a huge value pick. And it not, you spent a 3rd round pick on him, go for a better QB later. That being said, I sure hope you are right. Fuck Pittsburgh and Baltimore, I truly want them to fail and have the Ohio teams run the AFC North.
Completion % does not = accuracy. We need to get past treating that stat like it's some kind of sacred cow.
Especially considering his predecessor that I mentioned broke the school record for completion percentage in a season @ 72%.
Anticipation, ball placement, timing, variable velocity and downfield vision should all be taken into consideration over raw numbers.
That's how the stat nerd at PFF end up having Corey fucking Coleman as their #1 rated WR for the NFL draft.
While I'm at it, anyone here go and have a look at Mayfield from 2016 to 2017 and tell me if you see a more polished QB -OR- you see a great system put in place by one of the best offensive minds in football that acknowledges and masks his QB's shortcomings while setting his primary reads up nicely time and time again.
Baker comes from your typical b12, one read offense. Same philosophy that Weeden, Mahomes, Johnny, etc etc all hail from. Is it possible they all improve? Sure, anything is 50/50. But I don't go off what is possible, I go off what is probable.
For that reason alone I can't get behind this pick.
