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Originally Posted by Megatron96

It's not a bad spot for him. I mean, Watson isn't going to be the starter, that's almost a certainty. So, Shadeur has to sit behind Flacco for a year, no more than that. I doubt Pickett or Gabriel will be able to stay ahead of him in the order for very long. And he'll have the benefit of a solid top-10 defense and a stable HC situation with some credible weapons at his disposal. He just has to bear down and learn the offense and learn some humility for a season.


also, as an aside, I don't see him having a weak arm. He doesn't have a cannon, but I watched maybe 5-6 games of his while he was at CO and he threw some 40-50 yd bombs with good accuracy in there. More than enough arm to play in the NFL, if guys like Tua, cousins, hurts, Goff, Lawrence, Dak and Purdy are any examples.

It’s got to help that he now has far less pressure on him to be an instant effective starter than if they had taken him as a top 5 pick and the way draft week played out just might help him mature and develop character.