Official Game Day Thread: 2020: Week 6 Chiefs vs Broncos

[Ear2dastreets]

Yeah, and Lock looked a lot better last season too. And Mayfield looked better in his first year than he did in his 2nd year. It took Allen a couple of years before he started becoming more consistent.

Young quarterbacks struggle. Burrow and Herbert will struggle too. Again, some major alarms have gone off with me regarding Lock but I'm at least willing to let the season play out before I make a more definitive assessment. Even then I think you always give a young quarterback a 3 year window to really show progress.

If you know me I have said since last year that lock deserves this full year. Yes lock looked good last year but he had an off-season to which these rookies didn't have any of that so they are in a worst place the lock was last year. Denver needs a qb and have since 2015 we can't wait no 3 year to "see if" a qb turns around if they are not trending in the right direction.

[mojo0730]

Wow would people stop with this off-season too...it happened get over it. Look at the rookies coming straight from college like Burrow and Herbert....they didn't have any off-season and had not thrown 1 nfl pass.

Yeah, and Lock looked a lot better last season too. And Mayfield looked better in his first year than he did in his 2nd year. It took Allen a couple of years before he started becoming more consistent.

Young quarterbacks struggle. Burrow and Herbert will struggle too. Again, some major alarms have gone off with me regarding Lock but I'm at least willing to let the season play out before I make a more definitive assessment. Even then I think you always give a young quarterback a 3 year window to really show progress.

[Ear2dastreets]

Wow would people stop with this off-season too...it happened get over it. Look at the rookies coming straight from college like Burrow and Herbert....they didn't have any off-season and had not thrown 1 nfl pass.

[mojo0730]

I don't care about how many oc ANY qbs have had. Most qbs have been playing football since pop Warner. It has nothing to do with decisions making, throwing the ball to the right wrs, seeing the field. Im sorry miss me with the OCs he's not getting an excuse there. Its the nfl some qbs is gonna be lucky to have one or 2...some not...its not excuse.

I'm not one to coddle professional athletes. But I think it's wholly unfair to not give Lock a little bit of slack for some of these issues given the coordinator situation and the weird off-season. But to each their own.

[Ear2dastreets]

I don't think it has anything to do with film. I'm giving him SOME slack because this is his third offensive coordinator in as many years and we still only have about a 7 game sample size. He says the right things on paper and he appears to be wanting to learn. But I can't excuse the errant throws downfield. He also struggles with the sideline routes.

I don't care about how many oc ANY qbs have had. Most qbs have been playing football since pop Warner. It has nothing to do with decisions making, throwing the ball to the right wrs, seeing the field. Im sorry miss me with the OCs he's not getting an excuse there. Its the nfl some qbs is gonna be lucky to have one or 2...some not...its not excuse.

[mojo0730]

I said this all last year. A lot of people was saying we were good at qb and that we found our qb after 4 or 5 games. A lot of people were happy not I. Def had no film on him and I knew that would change. He stared down wrs last year. In college his career comp % was like 53%.... then people was saying he had not talent on offense. Im he had almost he full weapons today. Ima see how many more passes he is gonna get. Im gonna say it again as I said it before we drafted him, when we drafted and now, we will be in the market for another qb.

I don't think it has anything to do with film. I'm giving him SOME slack because this is his third offensive coordinator in as many years and we still only have about a 7 game sample size. He says the right things on paper and he appears to be wanting to learn. But I can't excuse the errant throws downfield. He also struggles with the sideline routes.

[GMTD]

“There’s a fine line between taking what the defense gives you and then when they don’t give you what you want, trying to make a play," Lock said. "I can make the plays when they’re there, but I’ve just got to get a little better judgment on when it’s time to make that play or say, ‘You know what, they got us.’ Eventually, we’ll stop having this conversation, but it needs to happen faster than later, and it will.”

He only needs to look a Mahomes' performance yesterday. In difficult conditions and against a good D that had him under pressure regularly, he just made the throws the D gave him. Sure, he just got 200 yards but he didn't take what wasn't there. And he didn't panick just because he wasn't making a lot of progress.

Almost every indicator from.yesterday's game shows the Broncos as better than KC. More passing yards, a lot more rushing yards, more sacks, much greater time in possession...
But we lost the turnover battle 4-1.

We just need Lock to play sensibly, that's all. He has talent but sometimes discretion is the better part of valour.

[fraguela09]

“There’s a fine line between taking what the defense gives you and then when they don’t give you what you want, trying to make a play," Lock said. "I can make the plays when they’re there, but I’ve just got to get a little better judgment on when it’s time to make that play or say, ‘You know what, they got us.’ Eventually, we’ll stop having this conversation, but it needs to happen faster than later, and it will.”

[Ear2dastreets]

I said this all last year. A lot of people was saying we were good at qb and that we found our qb after 4 or 5 games. A lot of people were happy not I. Def had no film on him and I knew that would change. He stared down wrs last year. In college his career comp % was like 53%.... then people was saying he had not talent on offense. Im he had almost he full weapons today. Ima see how many more passes he is gonna get. Im gonna say it again as I said it before we drafted him, when we drafted and now, we will be in the market for another qb.

[Broncos-R-Great]

He's definitely regressed this year. His accuracy is especially problematic but he's not even really making good decisions. He's got 1 touchdown versus 4 picks. That's just not good enough. I'm trying to be patient but I need to see something that shows he can learn from his mistakes or be a regular playmaker.

Right now he’s the lowest rated starting QB in league. It’s been really ugly, like worse than Paxton Lynch.

[mojo0730]

Good grief, Lock doesn’t look like he make it as backup, he’s been straight garbage this year. Worse than Paxton Lynch.

He's definitely regressed this year. His accuracy is especially problematic but he's not even really making good decisions. He's got 1 touchdown versus 4 picks. That's just not good enough. I'm trying to be patient but I need to see something that shows he can learn from his mistakes or be a regular playmaker.

[Broncos-R-Great]

Good grief, Lock doesn’t look like he make it as backup, he’s been straight garbage this year. Worse than Paxton Lynch.

[Broncos1963]

The best (or worst) was Lock’s idiotic explanation after the game that he needs to learn to simply give up on some plays, to live for another day....

He said he’s just trying too hard to make something happen!

yeah, right.... The dude averages 1 passing TD every 14 quarters... He can barely make a play, make something happen when everything is protected and on time (at least Orton could deliver under optimum conditions).... to me, once again taking your team out of FG position shows he is football dumb and you can’t teach intelligence.

Listening to Lock, it sounds like he believes his play is simply going to self correct all by itself. I don't hear anything that makes me think he's going to actually work to improve his mental game and decision making. But rather, he seems to think he'll magically start having great games because he just wants it to happen.

[Broncos1963]

I see Canadian football in Lock's future. Helluva an arm. Fundamentals? What fundamentals?

I think he will be a good backup. Coming in for game out two, I think he'll kill it. But if he isn't going to have fundamentals then his football iq and decision-making needs to be stellar. Instead, I think he believes he can get by with a big arm and high school improvising.

[drhiii]

Hopefully DEN gets 1/3 QBs coming
out.... Lock isn’t the answer....

I see Canadian football in Lock's future. Helluva an arm. Fundamentals? What fundamentals?