Gardner Minshew II began this season because the Las Vegas Raiders’ beginning quarterback, and after 5 disappointing video games, he was benched in favor of Aidan O’Connell.
He returned to the controls of their offense in Week 7 when O’Connell suffered a fractured thumb, and towards the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs this previous Sunday, he accomplished 24 of 30 go makes an attempt and threw two landing passes and no interceptions in a 27-20 loss.
Former New England Patriots head coach Invoice Belichick had a transparent message on the “Let’s Go!” podcast for Minshew so far as his viability as a QB1 transferring ahead — “Ball safety is job safety.”
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Up to now this season, Minshew has thrown six landing passes, however he has eight interceptions, and for his profession, he has a 4.0 % interception fee, which is unusually excessive.
Final season, in 17 video games with the Indianapolis Colts, he threw 15 landing passes however had 9 interceptions and a whopping eight fumbles.
Some folks really feel the Raiders could also be beginning a rebuild or at the very least a retooling course of after buying and selling star vast receiver Davante Adams to the New York Jets earlier this month.
They’ve been one thing of a laughingstock for some 20 years, and if they’re to make the playoffs for under the third time since 2002 any time quickly, they must discover a technique to get a official beginning quarterback.
With a 2-6 document proper now, maybe they are going to end with a document that might be dangerous sufficient to present them a shot at drafting a strong signal-caller within the 2025 NFL Draft.
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