Originally posted by SmokeyJoe:
Originally posted by libertyforever:
It is utterly ridiculous he is having such a season without the off-season and was limited in training camp. One has to believe he would have been significantly better if he had a healthy off-season to work on any weaknesses in his game.
Might be true. I think it is. But having more information before making that kind of financial commitment is always a good thing. It's never bad. If he has an awesome season again, as I would expect him to, we have a more solid footing to invest in him as he's done it for multiple years. If he regresses, we have information to make a more difficult decision... which may still be to invest in him anyway.
Whether one poster or another doubts if he's capable of sustaining this level of play really doesn't matter. What matters is making the best financial decisions possible with the most available data we can.
Right, it's ideal for the team to have TWO back to back seasons of full time starting before they start working on an extension. Ideally you want the first three but we only got a small portion the first year.
i think all of us believe he will continue to build on what he's done.
i know that I personally forget that he actually has very little experience. Not even a season and a half. There is still a lot he hasn't seen, or doesn't have much experience against. He's shown, in his current sample size, that he adapts and grows on the fly.
As great as he's played this year, there is a lot he can get better on, and I mean that in the best way. I also think he's being brought along in the best way possible - play with a top defense, great offensive weapons, great scheme.. and let him learn in that environment. It's fun to watch and very exciting.
Hope we can top off this year the right way.