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Home & Home: Checking in on the second-year quarterbacks
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Home & Home: Checking in on the second-year quarterbacks

2021's QB class was supposed to be an all-timer. So where are we at a season-and-a-third in?
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The response to last week’s Home & Home podcast with Jon Ledyard was so strong that we got the band back together for another episode this week. We go deep on the second-year QBs. Jon and I discuss:

  • Which quarterback has the ideal environment to succeed

  • How the Jags use nub formations to help Trevor Lawrence

  • Lawrence’s development at the line of scrimmage

  • The chaos of Zach Wilson

  • Wilson under pressure vs. Wilson from a clean pocket

  • Why the Jets quarterback remains a tease while being objectively bad

  • The issues for Mac Jones in New England

  • Jones’ issues vs. middle-of-the-field ‘open’ coverages

  • Whether the Pats offense is tailored to Jones’ strengths

  • Why the Bears do not trust Justin Fields… and why he doesn’t trust the offense

  • How much of the blame pie goes to Fields and how much to coaching

  • Chicago adapting its offense in Week 7 and what that means moving forward

  • When to know it’s time to give up on a prospect you liked

  • Whether Davis Mills has been the second-best QB in the class so far

  • The most enc…

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