A microcosm of Winston’s career

Wheelo said
My brother in Christ, I'm explaining to you that's what Jameis has done for us lately. His GWD percentage for this season is 0%. He had multiple chances to seal the game in Green Bay and didn't. He punted the ball multiple times last week. There's no narrative.

Tape doesn't show he played well. In fact, the throw to AT Perry that scored a touchdown. I never want to see a QB on the field with a Saints helmet making that throw. That lets me know he has little to no processing power on the field outside of "there's a guy in my teams color." Again, you're rewarding Jameis for the touchdowns. Those were throws not many NFL caliber QB's can make, simply because none of them would ever attempt that. That was Mac Jones throwing a duck interception with a guy wide open in the endzone level of play. We think because it worked, he did a great job, which is insane to me.

The first TD was probably one of the best TD throws we've seen in years. The 2nd one was nuts and not one I would have taken but it worked and I'll take that 6 over the 3 we had in the first half. lol
The crazy thing about what you said is we saw Drew throw 50/50 balls all the time. Not necessarily from across the other side of the field, lol, but you better believe that a good chunk of Jimmy's TDs were "screw it, he's down there" throws. But because we deify Drew, we give those throws a little "uumph.."

And Mahomes makes dumb throws all the time. Most of yall love it...lol.

Wheelo said
You don't know the play calling changes nor do you know what Jameis is doing at the line. The interceptions most certainly matter. What does it matter if he scores 45 points if he's turning the ball over and the other team scores 55? Do you think teams strive to limit turnovers or is it just simply moot whether or not you turn the ball over?

When Winston entered the game, how many times did we rush the ball? When we brought it down to a single score, why didn't we run the ball more? And the hypotheticals don't always match. The Vikings scored on 4 out of 5 drives in the first half without a single interception being thrown. Interceptions don't always sway games like you want to believe. That was an ill-advised throw to end the game but I put that 70% Jameis/30% Sneaky Pete on that one. But we didn't start caring about interceptions until we made 2017-2020 Drew Brees the default Drew of his 15 year tenure in New Orleans. Drew threw plenty of dumb interceptions but he also threw a lot of touchdowns. I would rather have something like that than this product we are putting out. I WISH we could get a season of 37TDs/16INTs from a QB (Drew's average from 2008-2016). As it stands right now, we are sitting up here talking about how good of an idea it is for our $150 million QB to be taken out in the red zone for a Taysom/AK package because he can't score there. *sigh* But I digress.

Wheelo said
Your trivia question... Field Position. Points matter when the other team scores them. He threw the ball directly to a Viking defender that happened to drop the pass on our 30-yard line. That's 3 points for the Vikings. Easiest trivia question in NA history.

So how did that play out Sunday when they scored 27 points without generating a single turnover and we were down 24 points. But again, I remember Prime Drew throwing a lot of interceptions and even more touchdowns. :shrug: