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While the preseason is barely two weeks old, I must admit, the football I'm seeing has been really high quality. Cleveland and Green Bay looked to be in mid-season form last night, just as the Bills and the Ravens did last week. Even when the second and third string get in there, the execution has been sharp, and I have not seen a lot of yellow flags.
This is going to be a really competitive year all around.
deffinately, i agree!! .. Kelly Holcombe last night was a monster ... he should win the starting job , i dont care how much $ Couch gets... Holcombe did it against the 1st team D too.
Im looking for consistency today... i wanna see if our D can carry on from where they left off.. i wanna see T.Brown more comfortable and throwing better passes out there.. i wanna see some more of AVP .. i wanna see Pucillo looking good and making the call difficult for the coaches as to whom wins the RG spot.. I wanna see a couple of Scoring drives led by DB... lets see, what else??
G.B./Cleveland did look sharp yesterday. I think we'll look much better tonight too. Gotta remember that last week's game was only after two weeks of camp.
As to Holcomb, he should have been starting last year too. This nonsense NFL GM mentality that says you play the higher paid player is idiocy!
Here's an analogy:
You buy a really nice cut of Filet Mignon and put it in your fridge. Then the next day you buy some really nice sirloin burgers for much less. Well, you get hungry and go to the fridge only to find that you didn't cook the FMs quickly enough an they're bad.
Not wanting to "waste the money" you cook up the FMs anyway even tho you realize that eating them won't be healthy. Could get sick, get the runs, a bad health decision one way or another and for sure won't be tasty. Nevertheless, the money you paid is on the forefront of your mind so you cook them up and eat them. You don't enjoy the meal b/c the meat was bad. They weren't tasty, the meal left you unfulfilled and unsatisfied although 'you're full.'
Meanwhile, some perfectly good, healthy, and much more than tasty, certainly more tasty then the FMs, sirloin burgers are still sitting in your fridge unused!
That's the lame, lame methodology that NFL GMs, most of them apply to players, particularly QBs. It's one thing to "not give up" on a player who's only in their 2nd or 3rd year, but when you have a QB who's doing what you want the highly paid QB to do, then WHO CARES who's doing it?
It's unbelieveable to me! I just don't get it! It tells me that many GMs are idiots. Every fan and the media fully understand that just b/c a player is a high-round top-dollar pick that that doesn't mean they'll do anything. So why not just run w/ the best player at the position. If the "star" feels slighted, then let him compete when the opportunities arise!
IMO Cleveland may have been 11-5 or 12-4 w/ Holcomb at QB. The lost games to PIT scoring only 13 on the game, to BALT scoring only 21, PIT 20, and CAR 6. Couch was pretty bad throwing 18 INTs to as many TDs.
Funny thing is, that his career totals thru his first 4 seasons are not much different from Drew's over his first three seasons. Drew: 53 TDs/58 INTs first 3 seasons. Couch: 57 TDs/61 INTs over his first 4 seasons. At least Couch had one season of more TDs than INTs. Both did that in about 10K yards, but Couch on ~ 1,500 attempts, Drew on ~ 1,750 attempts. Both are separated by only 2.3 in career QB rating!
Interesting, eh!
Replace Donahoe with Modrak and fire the entire coaching staff!
57/61 is a better ratio slightly, w/ lesser talent to work with.
Don't you agree?
I never intended to post that, but it begged asking the question, at least to me.
I think it's a very valid question. And consider that Drew had at least what Couch has had talent-wise. So less should have in fact been expected outta Couch.
Drew had very good to excellent RBs, a world-class/all-pro TE, and solid WRs.
Couch has had no rushing game to speak of, only one mediocre WR in Kevin Johnson, Campbell as his TE. Yet, his best two seasons were right in there w/ Drew's best and overall in his first years.
So why isn't Couch regarded as some sort of monster QB??
There are other similarities too. Neither, until this season w/ Couch, has had their starter status threatened other than due to injury.
Couch also missed half a season early on, so his numbers in terms of overall yardage would have approached Drew's much sooner w/ another 9 games under his belt.
I just find it interesting. You can't argue that their contributions were similar over the first few years of their careers, albeit for different teams. You also can't argue that Couch hasn't had anywhere near the talent Drew had.
So again, why is Couch regarded as not being very good while at the same time in Drew's career, he was heralded as being "among the greats?"
I know what the answer is, do you?
Replace Donahoe with Modrak and fire the entire coaching staff!
I'm convinced that Spikes is gonna do for the Bills what Ray Lewis has done for the Ravens!
IMO Spikes will be known as the best OLB in football after this season. A higher profile team coupled with talent around him will highlight his season nicely!
Again, if healthy. At this point we have no idea what's actually wrong.
Replace Donahoe with Modrak and fire the entire coaching staff!
Wys, Bledsoe was winning with the tuna at the time, couch has yet to win anything in cleveland. And Drew didn't have the best qb in football (McNabb) get taken right after him to always be compared against.
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... he should win the starting job , i dont care how much $ Couch gets... Holcombe did it against the 1st team D too.
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