CJ was a B+ for me today. Room for improvement but I feel he played really well with his O-Line situation and WR Talent.
CJ had some accuracy issues throughout the game associated with his footwork. He started getting antsy as well. The footwork can be fixed, the antsyness can be attributed to the oline. The reason why I am more than encouraged is that the good outweighed the bad. The best stat was the big fat 0 in INTs. The oline will improve once we no longer have replacement level talent there, but today was beyond rough for them. The WR play was rough as well, and Slovik’s play calling gets one pass as it was his first go round as well, but there needs to be vast improvement there. Defense got gassed towards the end of the game, and losing Pitre hurts a lot, but they played well most of the game. WAJ would’ve had more sacks if Lamar wasn’t the slipperiest QB in the league. Tough loss, wasn’t as close as I thought it would be, but there are things to build on.
Not really. Rick Mirer, David Carr and Matt Leinert are a few off the top of my head that looked like they would be good while in the NFL behind trash offensive linemen. Mirer and Leinart looked promising to a lot of coaches and pundits until they played behind improved offensive linemen and still struggled and were exposed as guys that checked down entirely too often to be effective. As for Carr, it eventually became clear that HE was part of the reason he was sacked so often. Stroud’s first game was “fine”. He didn’t embarrass himself, didn’t turn the ball over- which is all good. However he also didn’t move the ball down the field and his completions were not for much yardage. So WHO is he? No idea at this point.
He's a guy who just played his first NFL game, and looked pretty ok doing it. That's all. There's a whole bunch of "everybody shut the **** up" and "let's see what happens" at this point. Some of yall act like you've never watched the NFL before.
What impressed me from the chart: that's where the Ravens' best LBs roam and he was just putting it there like nothing. And without a running game the Ravens were not biting on anything. Funny to think they wanted to trade Queen.
Looking at the line he was playing behind, the drops and the inconsistent calls, I though Stroud looked fine. Baltimore is a hell of a place to start your NFL career.
Yes - “fine” is the term I would use. He didn’t look lost or physically dominated but nothing definitive learned. I need to see him push the ball down the field, he hasn’t done that but it has been one game - against a good team and with a banged up line.
