Grade C.J. Stroud's performance against Titans

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00:00We do this at this time.

00:01C.J. Stroud's great.

00:02We got our Hall of Fame quarterback right here.

00:06The hair was on point during the speech.

00:08I saw it.

00:09It was flowing there.

00:09I saw what you were trying to put together there.

00:12It's embodied, doesn't it?

00:14It's just thick, brother.

00:15It's healthy, isn't it?

00:16But text in your thoughts.

00:18I see somebody said, rookie season C.J. Stroud showed up on Sunday.

00:23What was your grade?

00:24Again, C.J. Stroud, 28 of 23.

00:27233, two touchdowns, no turnovers, no interceptions, quarterback rating of 120.

00:35That's his best rating since the Cleveland Browns playoff game his rookie year.

00:40Four carries, 11 yards rushing.

00:43Clint, how would you grade C.J. Stroud?

00:47I gave C.J. Stroud an A.

00:49Yeah.

00:50Not an A-minus, not an A-plus.

00:51I gave C.J. Stroud an A.

00:54Look, that was a game that it was fairly obvious fairly early that if you just played

01:02a mistake-free game, you were going to win that game one way or another.

01:05And as you said in the last segment, you had to win that sucker.

01:08Yeah.

01:08Even if it was 6 or 12 to nothing, you got to win that football game somehow, some way,

01:14and get away from this losing streak, right?

01:16So, I think C.J. Stroud's play probably was dictated by the kind of game that it, again,

01:24that it was very quickly obvious that it was going to be.

01:27And 22 of 28 for 233 and two touchdowns is exactly what you want from C.J. Stroud.

01:35I don't recall the ball being put in harm's way one time.

01:38All right.

01:40I think two of three shots that he took were on the money.

01:46The go ball down the sideline, which shifted the whole game to Nico Collins,

01:50and the check that he threw to Higgins for a touchdown.

01:55You mentioned the other one.

01:57He missed Dalton Schultz, or he threw it in between the outside receiver and Dalton Schultz.

02:01I'm not real sure whose fault it was, but you just flat out can't miss those.

02:05I think if he hits that, this game goes totally different.

02:07By the way, I think they run him up out of there pretty quick.

02:10That was a painful miss.

02:13But I think that was his only in the entire game, right?

02:17I mean, he was unbelievably patient.

02:19He mentioned the death by 1,000 cuts is the style of offense that they want to play.

02:24And that's what he – it looked like he bought in for one week.

02:28And he bought in.

02:30It was boring.

02:31It was simple, stupid.

02:32And then when he had the opportunity to hit him where it hurts, he hit him.

02:37I thought he used Dalton Schultz in the underneath game, six targets, five catches.

02:42I thought he used the running backs, but really Woody Marks again underneath on some catches

02:46and was extremely patient and then just dropped dimes when he had the opportunity with the exceptional one.

02:52So, I just – I don't think C.J. Stroud, given what was presented to him, I don't know that he could have handled this situation

03:01or played any better than he did.

03:04Again, with the exception of the Dalton Schultz miss in the first half, man, that was about as clean a game

03:10as you're going to get from C.J. Stroud.

03:14And I know people don't want to hear this wrong.

03:16We talked about it last night in the postgame.

03:17Now, you'd like to do it against a better opponent, but ideally, that's what this offense is going to look like.

03:26This offense is going to – they're going to be okay with not making – when they know that the other team's offense can't score,

03:31they're not going to be overly aggressive.

03:33Which will be the majority of the games they play.

03:35Yeah.

03:35I mean, hopefully, yeah.

03:36I mean, that is – that's how this – they're going to be very comfortable in a 6-0, 12-0 game

03:43against anybody and everybody out there with minimizing, you know, the risk with the ball,

03:49with not taking sacks, not getting behind the chains.

03:51They're going to be – that is what the Knick is designed to look like is what we watch.

03:58Now, again, it needs to happen against better opponents, and it hasn't.

04:01But ideally, that's what you want it to look like is, hey, CJ, beat Tom Brady for 95% of the game

04:09and then show us that ball placement specialist in the mid-range to deep game three or four times.

04:16And that's how they're going to win games.

04:18And so that's – I mean, I gave him an A, Ron.

04:20I thought he was really, really good in a lot of spaces.

04:27I know when you look at his numbers, it wasn't, you know, 300 yards.

04:32It wasn't, you know, three touchdowns.

04:35It wasn't, you know, that.

04:36There wasn't a lot of, you know, big play.

04:39Really, they erupted in the fourth quarter, not a lot of big plays around.

04:42But listen, I'm in the A range as well.

04:46He took a lot of shots and got right back up.

04:50He was able to work through some of the deficiencies on his team.

04:54And he was mature enough to take the throws.

04:59And you could almost see it.

05:01He wanted to go downfield.

05:02You could almost see it in him.

05:05He wanted to go downfield, but he took them.

05:07And he used Dalton Schultz in a way that Dalton Schultz can be used.

05:11And it's right there as an outlet.

05:13And Dalton Schultz, several times, four to eight yards, he was getting –

05:17and it was easy.

05:18And he was decisive on his throws.

05:21Woody Marks as well.

05:22Nick Chubb as well.

05:24You know, they were able to get, you know, one, two-yard dump-offs

05:28that they turned into to, you know, plays where it's second and eight

05:31or it's a first down.

05:34And then, as you've said, he took the shots when he needed to

05:40and when they were available.

05:42And that is the way they got to play.

05:45And as you said, now he's got to be consistent with it.

05:47But that's the way they got to play.

05:49And he did.

05:50He looked like he knew the game plan and was able to kind of go with what the plan was.

05:57Well, Ron, he's got – he's the one that's got to buy into it.

06:00Because I'll be honest with you, and I don't have any inside source, obviously.

06:03But I affirm – Nick Cayley looks at that game and goes –

06:06That's it.

06:06He didn't go, man, it was the Titans.

06:08He goes, man, that's what I want it to look like.

06:10That's what I want it to look like.

06:11Stay ahead of the chains.

06:13Stay in third and fourth and short.

06:15Now they had to go convert four – I mean, three, fourth, and shorts.

06:18I'd rather you not do it.

06:19Let's go ahead and get our conversions on third down,

06:21which they did by the end of the game.

06:22But it was sketchy early.

06:24Let's take care of some of that stuff.

06:26But that's exactly what Nick Cayley wants this thing to look like, man.

06:29And, look, I mean, CJ's got to buy in.

06:33You know, CJ's got to buy in this week.

06:35I know you're playing a Baltimore team that's got some injuries.

06:38Boy, do they.

06:39The approach has to be somewhat the same.

06:41Defensively, you've got to feel like with Lamar Jackson out that you can hold

06:45them down and you've got to minimize the risk on the offensive side of the

06:49football and just slowly kind of step away from them.

06:51You know, that's got to be the plan.

06:53Now we'll see what unfolds.

06:55But that's got to be the plan.

06:56And CJ's got to commit week in, week out the way he did this week.

06:59Text line coming in.

07:01A-.

07:01He got sloppy with the snap count and almost got killed.

07:05Text line B-.

07:06Didn't get going until the second half.

07:09Missed two wide open targets.

07:10One-four potential touchdown.

07:12Bill texting in.

07:15CJ missing wide open Dalton Schultz for a touchdown.

07:19I mean, you're going to miss some, right?

07:21What other miss did he have?

07:24Oh, he only missed six throws.

07:26Yeah.

07:28I don't know.

07:29Maybe they're referencing some people that were open.

07:31He didn't pull the trigger on.

07:32The Dalton one is the one that stands out.

07:34I think Ross Tucker may have said another one in the call somewhere.

07:39I re-watched it again this morning.

07:41He may have said something in the call.

07:43The Dalton Schultz one is the one that really jumps out.

07:47But, no, I mean, listen.

07:48You're going to miss some throws.

07:49And, yes, when you're playing better opponents, damage you need those.

07:54But I thought he managed the game and what the game was really well.

07:59Yeah.

08:00I mean, you know, I thought he did a hell of a job.

08:02But, look, I mean, let's be honest.

08:04I mean, the margin for error with CJ Stroud is larger than most, right?

08:09I mean, right now, this defense is going to play tremendous.

08:13And when I say margin of error, I mean, you know, if you miss one throw,

08:16if you come back and hit the next two shots on a go ball down the sideline

08:19and a seam route for a touchdown, I'll take that two of three.

08:22I'll take that 66% all day on balls that are thrown over 25,

08:2620, 25 yards down the field, right?

08:28Yeah, CJ Stroud needs to hit the first one.

08:30No doubt about it.

08:31He's better than that, right?

08:32That's on him.

08:33That's not about heat.

08:34That's not about training camp.

08:36It's not about lack of options.

08:37He's got to hit that throw.

08:39But two of three shots is damn good.

08:43I mean, that is good.

08:44But, yeah, I'll give him an A on that.

08:46Thanks, Bill.

08:50Shout out to you, Bill.

08:51Big Bill.

08:53Thanks, Bill.

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