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It's good the team won. I'm just wondering in all honestly, if everything thinks jp having problems grasping being a pocket qb in the nfl all his fault, fairchild fault or both of them?
We all know he has a less than average O-line, holds on to the ball. etc. but how much longer does jp get a free pass?? I'm going to use alex smith of san francisco as comparison because they both came from similar pro offenses played at utah and tulane. They were mainly shotgun qb in college and had their athlecticism used as part of the offenses. Both guys haves had to adjust to life as pocket qb's in the nfl because of this. It should be noted that both guys had different offensive guys to work with last season. Fairchild doesn't have any qb's developed as good qb's in his coaching career. Norv Turner has developed troy aikman. He is developing smith right now. Through 8 games smith has only 18 sacks and losman has 26 sacks. 8 sacks is the difference. Both teams aren't known for their O-lines either. Is this testimony of how how much better turner has done with smith than fairchild has with losman?
Let's look at last year. Losman had 26 sacks in 9 games he played only in last season. Is that progress? He accomplished 26 in one game less this season than last season. Smith last year had 29 sacks in 9 games he played last season. 18 now through 8 games would be progress than he had last season in only 9 games(29).
I'm not knocking jp with this thread. I want the guy to succeed, but based on these numbers, he hasn't shown much improvement in regards to reading defenses and getting rid of the ball. Ok half of those may not be his fault or smiths' fault, but take away half, and there's still less improvement than last season(taking into account maybe half weren't his fault in 2005 either).
It seems qb's that play in these type of pro offenses don't have it easy developing as pocket passers. Of course, the right coach may just do wonders in regards to what turner is doing with smith right now. Now whether jp is not grasping it yet or fairchild is not doing his job is not known, but one can gather that not much improvement is getting done. The answer to buffalo's qb woes may lie with another qb next season that has a lot of experience as a pocket passer.
We all know he has a less than average O-line, holds on to the ball. etc. but how much longer does jp get a free pass?? I'm going to use alex smith of san francisco as comparison because they both came from similar pro offenses played at utah and tulane. They were mainly shotgun qb in college and had their athlecticism used as part of the offenses. Both guys haves had to adjust to life as pocket qb's in the nfl because of this. It should be noted that both guys had different offensive guys to work with last season. Fairchild doesn't have any qb's developed as good qb's in his coaching career. Norv Turner has developed troy aikman. He is developing smith right now. Through 8 games smith has only 18 sacks and losman has 26 sacks. 8 sacks is the difference. Both teams aren't known for their O-lines either. Is this testimony of how how much better turner has done with smith than fairchild has with losman?
Let's look at last year. Losman had 26 sacks in 9 games he played only in last season. Is that progress? He accomplished 26 in one game less this season than last season. Smith last year had 29 sacks in 9 games he played last season. 18 now through 8 games would be progress than he had last season in only 9 games(29).
I'm not knocking jp with this thread. I want the guy to succeed, but based on these numbers, he hasn't shown much improvement in regards to reading defenses and getting rid of the ball. Ok half of those may not be his fault or smiths' fault, but take away half, and there's still less improvement than last season(taking into account maybe half weren't his fault in 2005 either).
It seems qb's that play in these type of pro offenses don't have it easy developing as pocket passers. Of course, the right coach may just do wonders in regards to what turner is doing with smith right now. Now whether jp is not grasping it yet or fairchild is not doing his job is not known, but one can gather that not much improvement is getting done. The answer to buffalo's qb woes may lie with another qb next season that has a lot of experience as a pocket passer.
That proves NOTHING about Losman 
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