I agree with you.
I'd also argue that he was more "good" in 2018 than "great". He just had lots of volume. It's not unlike when Bell was 3rd in the league in rushing with 30 - 45 more carries than everyone else in the top 10.
If he leads the league in passing, it will be like in 2018 where he gets ~ 100 more attempts than the next guy. In 2018, Ben beat (675 attempts) out Mahomes (580 attempts) by 32 yards (5129 - 5097).
He got a lot of yards because we threw so much more than everyone else. And most of those throws were pretty short. I seem to remember him having deep ball accuracy issues early in the year that lead to Gatorade being throw by some dead-beat-dad on the sidelines. Not sure if the accuracy issues got ironed out by the end of the year (the WRs child care issues certainly didn't).
We don't need Ben to be great. He just has to be OK to good.
I think Ben's QB brain will be very much better than MR or Duck. If his arm works, that should lead to much better O. I guess the thing I'm worried about with Ben is that his brain still thinks he's playing with a 30 year old arm, and the 38 year old arm just can't get it done anymore.
Either way, our chips are already in the pot.
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