Was not impressed with Winston first time I saw his highlight video. S-L-O-W release. Takes forever for him to set and throw. Manual has issues but seems to have more NFL upside with his compact throwing motion and effortless downfield throwing ability.
In this century the answer is David Carr. Going back a few decades the answer is Ken O'Brien. Always had a huge sack percentage which does not show up in the QB ratings, and so they let him start for 9 years. Had a good arm but pretty much had no ability to sense the pocket collapsing. Always felt the Bills had the advantage against the Jets because of O'Brien's limitations.
The answer for everyone on this board should be NEW ENGLAND! I can't believe no one else sees it this way. Do you think Brady and Bellichick would bring the same fire to winning the division year after year if they finally won a fourth ring? If they win a fourth they quickly fade into oblivion and open up the division.
I don't know about that. An alternative drafting model where a QB is drafted each year, year after year, in the first three rounds would have been hard pressed to underperform the current model which has yielded 14 consecutive non-playoff seasons.
It will be interesting to see what the skins do if cousins lights up the QB friendly Georgia dome. Mid round picks typically have weak arms. If he does well I expect they'll start Grossman outdoors weeks 16 and 17 so as to preserve cousins' trade stock.
Any Bills fan that can have other than the utmost hatred for Tom Dempsey must not have been around for this:
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/197909020buf.htm?mobile=false
I for one am celebrating he is finally out of the record books.
I thought the shots ej took with Goodwin long last week were good. He overthrew him by a few yards which is what you have to do. Goodwin just didn't dust the defender as he often does.
The best idea I saw floated was that each team would enter a blind bid for the yard line they would start at, lowest yard line wins. Can you imagine the press fodder relative to these coaching decisions.
Great shtick IMO. I thought they were both terrific. This will be great to replay in January '15 when I'm jonesing for ways to savor every minute up to EJs first playoff start and I've exhausted all current media. Way over the top, just as they are paid to do.