the pressure put on baker last year? he should shit diamonds. it was the playcalling and coaching did that.
that effects his mind and his play. KS saw this and asked himself "how can I best support this young player?"
nothing to do with coaching? it has everything to do with coaching.
he is much improved this year (yes he has made rookie mistakes) over last year.why?
coaching/playcalling
If you are waiting for bake to become peyton it aint gonna happen.we are 7-3 y'all.CB fans should all be jumping into lake erie
I understand your point,coaches dont play but football is not played in a vacuum.there are many many variables to deal with
KS has successfully minimised those things.7-3
A lot to try and unpack here.
I am not quite sure where you are going with pressure last year and it's association with reading coverage pre and post snap. I'll go with the flow here on what is in your reply.
Sure Baker was under pressure last year. He had internal pressure, external pressure, and actual pass rush pressure on the field. In all of those cases some was beyond his control, and others were self inflicted. We could deep dive in to every game and every play last season if we want to go to it. But short of doing that let me just say that last year was not all coaching/play calling. In no way am I saying coaching and play calling last year were not bad in many instances, and at many times did Baker no favors. Only that all the issues with Baker's play last year cannot be pinned to just coaches and play calling.
If the idea here is that last year some how set Baker back on how to read pre snap and post snap coverage, including basics like cover 1, all I can say is if that's the case Baker isn't long for the league.
KS and the FO have done a great job this year of taking pressure off of the QB and the passing game. As well as setting an offensive identity, and getting players on the OL to fit that identity. No doubt on that. How KS is running this offense is for sure coaching and everything to do with coaching. But this is where we are mixing the offense/offensive unit with the play at an individual position on that unit. At this point they have set their identity as a team that wants to run you in to submission, and wants its QB to throw the ball 25 times or less. When you are seeing a QB miss read basic coverages pre-snap, even when putting a player in motion to get a better pre snap read, I have a difficult time buying the overall approach is just about "how can I best support this young player". That really starts to look like good coaching that is going we can't trust our QB to be the center of our offense, what we can do with him is limited for various reasons, and we want to give him as few of opportunities to hurt us as possible.
Other than less INTs, what is something Baker playing the QB position is much improved on from last year? I am honestly asking for some type of examples that are not about the offensive unit.
I am not waiting for Baker to become Peyton. I agree that's not happening. That's what one would hope for when taking a QB #1 overall, but that's not on Baker. Baker didn't draft himself. I don't hold Baker up to the standard of being a #1 over all pick. I do hold him to the standard of play needed from the QB position to win games against above .500 teams and in the playoffs. I have not seen that level of play, or any progress to him getting to that level of play. Right now all I have seen is consistent inconsistency of play week to week for 2 1/2 years.
No question there are many, many, many, many,.... variables that go in to coaching, game plans, depth charts, etc. That is why some things are simple like they are playing so and so because he played for him 7 years ago on another team, or an entire approach is around how can I best support this young player. Good coaching is about finding ways to win with what you have, and an approach which that leverages what you can do well, and protect from what you do not do well.
I am very happy to see CLE 7-3 and the performance of the coaching staff. Critique of Baker's play, and looking at the longer term future of the team can and are separate for me. I can enjoy seeing CLE win games while being concerns about 20~25M tied up on Baker in 2022 if they picked up his 5th year option and 1/4 to a 1/3 of their entire salary cap tied up on Baker if they were to extend him. I don't want CLE to be a one good season team every so often. We have sort of seen this movie before from CLE and other teams.