In that case it would be nice for them to look at the last half of the 2020 season in which this team went to the playoffs with an 11-5 record and then make sure they took Baker's shoulder injury into consideration of the 2022 season and stop pretending that has any indication of "progress". Or his performance right up until the injury qappened this year. But I know that's not going to happen.
Look, I don't think Baker is the best QB since sliced bread. I have no issue with the team trying to improve the position. I don't approve of wallowing in the slop along with the hogs to do it, but that's not the issue here.
For me the issue is that some fans try using a year where Baker had a terrible shoulder injury and was playing hurt and try to use that as an indication in regards to "growth or progress" of him as a QB. That's disingenuous at best and purposefully manipulative at worst.
Then some claim, "opposing defenses figured him out!". They seem to believe that NFL teams can't figure out that a QB with a torn labrum in his shoulder is limited in what he can and can not do and it had more to do with the injury than Baker himself.
There are plenty of ways to show Baker wasn't the best QB. There are plenty of ways to show that DW is an improvement at the position "on the filed" than Baker.
But trying to twist and paint a picture that doesn't exist to accomplish that is something that's easy to see through.
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