My thoughts on Cam Ward’s day yesterday now that I’m through the Week 7 tape: Oddly enough, I actually thought it was his best game of the season thus far. Therein lies the problem though, considering I didn’t think he was altogether great. Even in what I’d call the best game of his sophomore season, he still looks like a shell of his rookie tape. The whole farce of game-by-game progression/development from Ward this season is completely undermined by the fact that he’s decisively regressed in comparison to what he was last year There were more splash plays than any other game of his this year, but the INT issues persisted, the mechanics/footwork-induced accuracy issues were glaring again, and the pocket mismanagement refuses to go away. He tested the MOF more against Cleveland, but it was almost entirely slants/quick in-breakers against a MOFC, man-heavy defense (which he’s much more comfortable testing in between the hashes than he is zone-heavy defenses). The sporadic flashes were a step in the right direction, but Ward has to find a way to consistently get back to (and ideally surpass) the baseline level of tape that he was producing in the 2nd half of last season. He just looks so far away from that currently