Originally posted by SmokeyJoe:
Originally posted by SLCNiner:
Yeah, you have a serious reading comprehension issue. Of course "as an individual" he wouldn't be that successful. That was the point of the entire post, homie. On THIS team, he wouldn't be playing as an individual. At any rate, coach disagrees with whether or not he'd be successful, otherwise he wouldn't have signed him. Ive laid out the reasons to support my opinion, while you just argue with no reasoning. That's it for me, I know you relish arguing for the sake of it, but I personally can't stand posts like that.
Amazing that you question my reading comprehension when you are clearly struggling with a very basic point I made.
No quarterback plays the game as an individual. They all have individual abilities however. Your 'reasoning' for the opinion that Josh Johnson could QB this team to a .500 record completely ignores this, and completely ignores what Josh Johnson has shown in his career. He is a bad quarterback. He's been in the league for 15 years, and started 9 times. His teams are 1-8 in those games and his production is well below average, being kind. There's nothing in his body of work that says he has the ability to quarterback any team, in any situation, to a middling record.
Just because our team won an NFC championship game throwing less than 10 passes in 2019, or that we were able to go to an NFC championship game with a 7th round rookie, doesn't mean the team can carry a bad Quarterback and have any level of success. A dysfunctional quarterback, which is what Josh Johnson has shown himself to be in almost every situation he's played, can sink an entire offense. You think the 2019 Green Bay Packers go into a game against the Jimmy Garoppolo 49ers with the same defensive gameplan as a Josh Johnson led 49ers team? There's no chance. These games are not played in a vacuum. The 49ers are not quarterback proof.
Jimmy Garoppolo is an average starting QB. Brock Purdy, while being a 7th round pick, showed he could be an above average QB. That's based on their individual ability. On this team, with all the help they receive from the great players, system, and coaches, they both have shown the ability to lead efficient offenses and put up QB efficiency numbers that rival some of the best QBs in the league. Would their job be more difficult on lesser teams? Without question it would... but that doesn't mean they are easily replaceable and that any QB could come in and have success. These guys have skills as players. They are not plug and play pieces where their ability is meaningless.
When you can support your opinion that Josh Johnson would have success here based on his individual ability in conjunction with how our team could help him, you'll have worthwhile reasoning. Right now, you have nothing other than comparisons to what our team was able to accomplish with different QBs who are clearly superior players to Johnson.
Appreciate your assumption that I like to argue just to argue, and your misplaced insult about my reading comprehension. Really means a lot!
