Quote from: T200 on Today at 09:27:08 AMI have been saying this every single year Jones has been in the league: he can be evaluated despite what support he has or doesn't have around him. I got a lot of pushback from you and others saying that it was too difficult to evaluate him because of the lack of quality NFL support.
Seems to me the ability to evaluate a player is subjective.
Tim,
I think there is a nuance on this issue. In a dysfunctional environment, every, or nearly every, QB will look bad. In a poor environment, people should factor in the poor environment (many do not).
More importantly, the ability to properly evaluate a quarterback is really the purview of that quarterback's coaching staff. As Daboll once said, people don't know the play calls. An apparent open receiver may be meaningless because they ran the wrong route. The fact of the matter is that we can get a sense of QB play by watching the games (or better yet, reviewing the all-22 with an informed eye), but no one outside the organization can evaluate with a strong degree of certainty (lacking the play calls and the QB's instructions).