Article Saints Execs love Spencer Rattler per ESPN’s Matt Miller (29 Viewers)

I'm not sold on Rattler. He's akin to a Winston like career, where he's a really good backup but one of the worse starting QB's. He has some great qualities such as keeping eyes down field, competitive attitude etc... but something doesn't feel good about it. I can't put my finger on it. He'll make a beautiful play and throw one play then the next looks like Dan Orlovsky. Could that change with a good coach? Absolutely. Will it? Dunno. I don't have a crystal ball, but it would be silly to hand him the keys to the franchise for the next 5 years currently.
 
They let Zach Baun get out of town and love this guy. Saints organization has some real problems.
 
He has NFL starter talent and absolutely no give up in him. These are the 2 things I know for sure about Spencer. The 2 questions that he needs to answer are…. Can he learn and play within an offense….? And given some blocking and talent, can he make good decisions and distribute the ball?

We have not been able to get the answer to those up to this point. Because he was a rookie playing with backups.
Backups is being kind is a lot of cases, if you mean NFL quality backups
 
I'm not sold on Rattler. He's akin to a Winston like career, where he's a really good backup but one of the worse starting QB's. He has some great qualities such as keeping eyes down field, competitive attitude etc... but something doesn't feel good about it. I can't put my finger on it. He'll make a beautiful play and throw one play then the next looks like Dan Orlovsky. Could that change with a good coach? Absolutely. Will it? Dunno. I don't have a crystal ball, but it would be silly to hand him the keys to the franchise for the next 5 years currently.
I think its something that experienced QBs have to learn over time. Once Rattler made that brilliant throw, he immediately felt comfortable and over-confident then threw a pick. Its a trap to feel that way, thats why they have to stay dialed in and disciplined. Then over time, the disciplined play becomes comfortable. That is why Carr looks so much better than Rattler. And its also why amateur fans think Rattler should be QB1. They see the good throw and assume that he'll make that good throw over and over because he's done it once. When in fact, he needs a ton of experience before he makes the right decisions always. Just like Winston. Winston publicly admitting that his throw out of bounds, was one of his best throws attests to this, because that throw, showed growth in his game where he needed it.
 

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