Cody Wichmann @cdwichmann33 - Twitter Profile

This level of delusion is absolutely insane: (A little lengthy but a good read for anyone who wants to understand the reality of quarterback analysis) The reality is almost the exact opposite. Caleb Williams was one of the most pressured quarterbacks in football and still consistently created positive plays out of broken situations. The highlights weren't masking mediocre quarterback play / they were evidence of a skill very few quarterbacks possess; Extending plays, avoiding negative outcomes, and generating explosives when protection fails is one of the most valuable traits in modern football. Jordan Love, meanwhile, wasn't hurt by people watching highlights. He was hurt by people watching the entire game. The issue wasn't a couple of viral mistakes / it was week-to-week inconsistency. Love would look elite for stretches and then follow it with inexplicable decisions, missed reads, forced throws, and turnovers that put Green Bay behind the chains or directly cost scoring opportunities. This dude ☝️assumes Caleb's best plays were exceptions to otherwise average quarterbacking. In reality, those plays were often the offense. When the protection broke down, when receivers weren't separating, or when the play design failed, Caleb repeatedly turned dead plays into first downs and explosive gains. That's not a gimmick; that's quarterback value. That's consistency. By contrast, many of Love's biggest problems came when the play was functioning as designed. He wasn't being asked to rescue broken plays / he was sometimes creating problems from clean pockets. A quarterback who consistently elevates bad situations is generally more valuable than a quarterback who frequently sabotages good ones. If anything, the true litmus test was whether people could separate production from circumstance. Caleb spent much of the season overcoming dysfunction around him and still generated offense. Love played within a significantly more stable environment and still delivered some of the most frustrating stretches of quarterback play. Saying "Caleb was average with highlights" ignores the fact that creating explosive plays under pressure is one of the defining traits of elite quarterbacks. Saying "Love was top tier except for a few mistakes" ignores that those mistakes were often the difference between winning football and losing football.

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