Skip Bayless makes Diego Pavia ‘promise’ after seeing Joe Fagnano play for the Ravens
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The Baltimore Ravens’ season has hit the rocks after another injury to Lamar Jackson is expected to see the quarterback miss the remainder of the season.
Thursday Night Football saw Jesse Minter’s team lose their fifth game of the season to the Jacksonville Jaguars. In Jackson and Snoop Huntley’s absence, rookie quarterback Joe Fagnano made his first-ever start in the NFL.
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It was not the best of outings for the rookie as he threw two interceptions and no touchdowns. This came just a matter of days after he threw an interception against the Buffalo Bills last weekend.
With the rookie failing to hit the ground running, Skip Bayless has suggested that the Ravens would have been better off keeping their other rookie, Diego Pavia, instead of releasing him during the offseason.
Skip Bayless ridicules the Baltimore Ravens for releasing Diego Pavia
Since being released by the Ravens, Pavia has explored other options as he considers a future in either the UFL or CFL. The former Heisman Trophy finalist appears to be leaning towards the UFL, but Bayless still believes he was harshly treated by Baltimore.
“I promise you, Diego Pavia would have lit it up last night and at least been competitive, because he is a playmaker. But listen, Diego Pavia was the SEC Player of the Year last year, and he should have won the Heisman over Mr Indiana,” Bayless said on Gridiron.
“Whatever, they cut him, and he’s going to wind up playing in Canada. The odds are that’s the last you’ll ever see Fagnano play. I hope I’m wrong about that, because they kept showing his wife, and she’s all into it, and she breaks down film with him and all that. That’s a nice little story, but I think it just ran its course.”
In Pavia, the Ravens would have had a real playmaker, who could have offered them the ability to rush as well as the threat of beating the opposition’s defense with the deep ball. The reality is that no NFL teams were willing to take a chance on him, though.
Although it may be easy for Bayless to now suggest that he would have been a better option for the Ravens on Thursday than Fagnano, he should also be pointing the finger at every other NFL team that chose to pass on Pavia during the offseason.
Coming in at around 5 feet 9 inches, combined with his outspoken nature, teams simply were not prepared to take the risk on Pavia at NFL level.
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