Baker vs Kyler: Not Fair to Murray, but still a Great Story

Much is being made of Mayfield vs Murray, as Mary Kay Cabbott reports.  Murray was Mayfield's backup at Oklahoma, and won the Heisman right after Mayfield did (in Murray's only year as a starter.)

Like Patrick Mahomes, who took his job at Texas Tech, Mayfield colors Kyler Murray a good freind.

Baker Mayfield remains a punk in some ways, (his treatment of Hue Jackson was immature, etc), but he readily accepts and bonds with his stongest competitors.

Mayfield got to play Mahomes in college, and the 2 combined for over a thousand passing yards (Mayfield only racked up a paltry 475 or so and "lost" to Mahomes' 600 or so).

I personally like Kyler Murray and Patrick Mahomes more than Baker Mayfield due to their personalities, but will still vote against impeachment.

Anyway, Murray is actually like a souped-up Russell Wilson, but there are differences: Wilson, like Mayfield, was a 4-year starter in college, and (unlike Mayfield), was a pocket passer in a Pro-style system.

Baker Mayfield (and Murray) ran air-raid offenses in college.  

Of the 3, Kyler Murray is the most challenged (least experienced by a huge margin, with the least-talented supporting cast).  In context, this kid has been awesome in his rookiehood.

Baker Mayfield is smart.  He said he probably benefitted more from Murray than he helped his understudy as he watched him tear up the starting offense on the scout team.

Of course it's not Baker vs Kyler in a ring or an octagon or a steel cage, and Elliott Kennel's guess that J T Hassell will be used to "spy" Murray makes a ton of sense.

As you should know, I'm a huge Hassel fan, as the 5'11", 200 lb guy was a sensational LINEBACKER in college, with 3 missing fingers on one hand...then blew the combine up in all the drills too.

Anyway, Elliott expects JT to "spy" Kyler Murray in this game, and seek to neutralize him as a runner.

This makes sense.  Kyler Murray can humiliate Schobert, Wilson, or even Redwine in space...

Meanwhile, he doesn't have any deep threats, and Steve Wilks specializes in "muffling"---

Hassel can be the 5th DB.  A "spy" mirrors the QB, but a few of you don't get what that actually means:

The "spy" is 4-10 yards deep.  He goes where the quarterback goes.  If the QB runs outside, the "spy" takes away all his short and intermediate options on that side of the field (you understand that the "spy" is in zone coverage here, right?)

On any handoff, the spy is inside to stop it.  On any inside run by the QB, the spy is there to meet HIM in the hole.

Vs the Ravens, this might not work as well, but vs the Cardinals, it's a no-brainer!

Elliott Kennel is excellent, and I'm certain that he's a legit brain, and not one of the many scumbags who steal from and regurgitate my thoughts.

Ok

1: The fact that John Dorsey hasn't yet made Joe Schobert an offer doesn't mean he intends to kick him to the curb (Chill out) 

1a: Joe Schobert and Kareem Hunt play "cheap" positions, and lack leverage.  Kickass running backs and inside/middle linebackers emerge as instastuds in the lower rounds of each and every draft.

...I'll skip "1c" here: Why would Paul DePodesta John Dorsey be in a hurry to overpay these guys ahead of the 2020 draft!?!  

(sigh) Hunt and Schobert will get CHEAPER, as the 2020 draft approaches, and cheaper yet after it happens!!!  

Their agents get this, which is why they...

Nevermind impeach Kitchens/Dorsey/Mayfield blah blah grow a brain okbye