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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Yeup.
It's pretty remarkable, to be honest. It takes a hell of a set of tools to be able to take a team who's best pass catcher is an intermittently healthy Donnie Avery and be identically productive with a team that has Travis Kelce, Tyreke Hill, Jeremy Maclin and Chris Conley added to the mix.
I'm serious - how the **** does he even manage that? Give the guy shit and he produces like an average to slightly below average quarterback. It stands to reason that giving him actual weapons will yield some sort of ROI...
Nope - same goddamn guy. The ability to be nominally productive in his first year or two here with a bad line and zero weapons to speak of was pretty damn admirable. But the fact that he's pretty much just hugged that line of abject mediocrity while the team around him has gotten progressively better (to the point of legitimately dangerous)....well that's just bizarre.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
And honestly, I'm not sure how much you'd have to take away before there's a noticeable drop off in production either.
The guy simply doesn't produce any differently regardless of the talent around him.
It makes no sense. The Browns should be hard up to get this guy. He's the perfect QB for a rebuild.
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I'm not sure you're right. You left off God Mode Charles during the Avery term.
And to be fair Charles is a lot more an Alex Smith type weapon than Tyreke Hill or Travis Kelce.
Your point remains. Weapons aren't Smiths problem. Smith is Smiths problem