Stafford is not responsible for the fact that the Rams brain trust decided that switching to a veteran qb was the catalyst they needed. He's the qb, not the mastermind.
And he welcomes the challenge (that's just obvious from listening to him). But it is never the qb alone that gets a team there.
He is on no "hot seat" and this idea that his tenure is probationary is just talk. It's not the reality.
Cause:
They got a talented veteran qb. There are seldom many good options to do that. So he's the qb. Now they need to extend him, and most likely will.
There are no other options. Getting qbs is not like shopping for outfits. You get a guy of Stafford's caliber you ride him--because you have no other real choice. Draft a guy? Trade for another one? What are they going to do? Invent one in a lab?
Unless Stafford is visibly a shell of his former self, he is the qb regardless when or if they reach a superbowl, and will be until he retires or gets too old to play. If they don't make it this year they just load up and try again--with Stafford at qb. That's pretty much basically it.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/23/2021 03:29PM by zn.
