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Originally Posted by Lov2fish
Everybody acts like they benched Manning. Richardson sucked, period. You can put sprinkles on shit and call it ice cream, but its still shit. Jones just sucks a little less. I'm still gonna watch and go to the games my schedule allows, even if I know it is in despair with a predictable outcome!
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Ballard and Steichen drafted the rawest QB prospect ever at 4 and then started him day one. He has roughly one full season of starts and has now been benched twice for established QBs that MAY suck just a little less. That is Cleveland lever incompetence. There is simply no way to defend their “plan” here. They have fucked it up as bad as is humanly possible. If AR had sat the bench for a couple seasons it would have been understandable. If they were living through his growing pains it would be understandable. What they have done is simply not defendable. It doesn’t matter than Jones definitely has a higher floor than AR or that they MAY win a couple more games with him. It’s that it shows a team who again has no fucking clue what it is doing at the most important position in sports. And that isn’t a one season, one time issue. It’s constant. The team acquired veteran win now QBs (Rivers and Ryan) and treated the rest of the roster like a rebuilding year. They traded significant assets for a supposed solution (Wentz) and again treated it like a rebuilding year. They drafted the rawest rookie ever, start him and all of a sudden have to win now? Fuck that. It’s BS. Yes I know they are under fire - because of the stupid decisions they have repeatedly made. Decisions just like this one.
And I will point out, for all of the admittedly accurate talk about how bad AR has been, his record as a starter matches pretty closely to what Gardner achieved with the same roster and better than what Flacco did with the same roster. I don’t see Jones as significantly better than either of those two. There is no guarantee Jone’s less shitty stats will contribute any more to actual winning than ARs pressure and big plays. Jones certainly can’t be called a “winner” based on his 6 years in the league regardless of how bad the Giants were.