Disclaimer: not debating just a genuine question on part of your comments.FantasyFreak wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:37 amI'm not. I've been a Raiders fan my whole life. O'Connell didn't play well enough. Not for a team trying to win a football game. For a guy in his first NFL start, sure. Hoyer is the current QB2 on their depth chart. They gave AOC a shot, they obviously didn't like what they saw that much. They just won a very emotional game with Hoyer playing fairly well. They are 3-3, and face a road game on the East Coast. I fully expect McDaniels to start Hoyer. He has the experience in the system, and is 2nd on the depth chart. There isn't really a good argument for AOC being the starter, unless Josh just wants to see him play more, but he's coaching for his job this year, I don't see him going down with a turnover prone rookie. If Hoyer isn't playing well, and they are losing, I could see him going to AOC as a spark, without as much pressure as being the starter, next week. It is Josh though, so who knows.
Why does AOC get a turnover prone label? In his college career, he had a 2.17 TD/int ratio. He had no turnovers in the preseason. In the game two weeks ago, he had two fumbles and one interception. Fumbles are not good obviously, but in my mind, they are a little more forgivable than interceptions for a QB because they are typically the result of the O-line getting overrun rather than bad decision making. I suppose there is an argument to be made that he should have seen that and thrown it away. I’m just struggling to see the turnover prone label fitting based on what happened in that one game, especially since it doesn’t fit the rest of what we’ve seen of him outside that game.
Post disclaimer: read this after the fact, and I guess I am debating a little bit.
