Pretty simple in both the eye test and the stat sheet: Sam Howell had an awful day in Los Angeles, another in a string of them, and in the span of 10 minutes, Jacoby Brissett completed 8 of 10 passes for 124 yards and two touchdowns, with three of those completions for 93 yards and one score going to Terry McLaurin – and that yardage total alone on two drives would’ve been his season high.
BMitch & Finlay took a call from Jay in South Carolina who was more done with Bieniemy than Howell after watching Brissett dominate, thinking Sam is a rookie trying to run an offense and Jacoby was just in there playing backyard football…but the guys aren’t so sure.
“The part that worried me most was that when Brissett came in, the offense was just clearly better, and moving the ball more effectively,” producer Landfill said. “Jacoby Brissett is a solid backup in the NFL, and if that guy can come in and just reliably outplay somebody who is supposed to potentially be a long-term starter, that’s a terrible sign.”
“It’s one thing for Sam, it’s a totally different thing when Jacoby comes in and looks really good,” JP replied. “Makes you wonder if you’re Bieniemy. And you know who asked a ton of questions about Eric Bieniemy yesterday? People that cover the Chargers, because they're like, maybe that's the kind of guy the Chargers need to come in and take over their operation and try to build some toughness. If you're Bieniemy and all of a sudden things look way better with Brissett out there and you're trying to get a head coaching job, maybe you want Brissett out there?”
Maybe, but BMitch, of course the only actual former NFL player in the lot, had this:
“I look at plays, and a lot of the routine plays end up being…if the ball is thrown in sequence in time, we don't need the rolling out and the throwing it across the body. We don't need all that, and I think that's the difference, where the good to exceptional quarterbacks make routine things look simple and the tough ones look routine,” Brian said. “I think that’s where you want your quarterback to be. If you always seem to be off-schedule…if you can't do things on schedule, you're not gonna have a job very long. The off-schedule things come, but that should not be the bulk of your repertoire.”
BMitch then went off on Cam Newton’s “game manager” comments about some top-tier QBs and how Cam ended up as the antithesis of that and ended his career early, and JP asked Jeff Walker how he felt.
“I don't want to give up on Sam, but if you got that chance to get that game changer and you could, we could go for it,” Jeff said. “Why not?
All JP could say in response?
“I think it's getting harder and harder to think otherwise.”
