11-05-2021, 08:04 PM
(11-05-2021, 07:29 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: I dispute your assertion, if you base it on last year, he had a very good year especially with a team that runs more than passes, his WR is adequate at best.. he lead the team to a playoff appearance and a win at Pittsburgh in the playoffs and a score away from going to Super Bowl , with 4 tds to 1 Int in playoffs.... in his 3rd season of a team that when he took over had won what 3 games in two years, that is saying something, we only wish Burrow can achieve that same in three years..this really is a key game for Joe, if he loses 3 in a to Baker that is not a good trend at all and puts us on a path of not making playoffs
Basing it on last year, Baker wasn’t very good. He was okay. I’m not saying he’s bad, but he was 13th in TD%, 18th in YPA, 16th in passer rating and was ranked similarly in EPA per play/success rate. This is a similar conversation that us Bengals fans had with Andy. Andy was fine, but he wasn’t good enough. I don’t believe Baker is, either.
Also, I don’t want this part of my post to get lost, because this is a major correction - the Browns were not a score away from the Super Bowl. They lost in the divisional round, not the AFC Championship.
Overall, this depends on what you’re baseline for being ‘good’ is. You can make the argument that he was ‘good’ but that really just means your baseline is low because Bakers production wasn’t very good. It was right about league average over the course of the season. His play did improve after OBJ went down, though, so if he can get back to that form, and stay there, then yeah, he will be a good QB.
