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14 Jan 2010
Drop In TO's Numbers Not TO's Fault
Shocking! I know. Ryan Fitzpatrick and Trent Edwards get to join the Buffalo coaching staff underneath the bus, thanks to this interview with Stephen A. Smith.
13 comments, Last at 15 Jan 2010, 11:19am by bingo762
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Re: Drop In TOs Numbers Not TOs Fault
Stephen A. Smith still has a medium to scream at people and cram too many unnecesary words into sentences?!?
Re: Drop In TOs Numbers Not TOs Fault
QUITE FRANKLY, I think he's still under contract with ESPN. HOWEVAH, I hope he crawls back under a rock sometime soon.
Re: Drop In TOs Numbers Not TOs Fault
Close. It should be:
QUITE FRANKLY, I think he's still under contract with ESPN at this particular moment. HOWEVAH, I hope that sometime in the near, whether the organization he currently works for realizes it or not future, he crawls back under a rock.
Re: Drop In TOs Numbers Not TOs Fault
He will make one hell of a coach someday. Just look at the way he scouted the Bills before he decided to sign with them
Re: Drop In TOs Numbers Not TOs Fault
I think that of the team that wanted to sign him, the Bills were the team.
"Just look at that pumpkin."
-John Madden, looking at the moon.
Re: Drop In TO's Numbers Not TO's Fault
And water is wet. Nothing is ever TO's fault.
Re: Drop In TO's Numbers Not TO's Fault
If I'm not mistaken, Quick Reads has mentioned several times that Fitzpatrick is a sub-NFL level QB. That doesn't excuse Owens for publicly blaming him but Owens might not be washed up quite yet.
Re: Drop In TO's Numbers Not TO's Fault
but Owens might not be washed up quite yet.
Owens, 2007: 448 DYAR, rank 3, 28.2% DVOA, rank 5
Owens, 2008: 75 DYAR, rank 46, -5.6% DVOA, rank 56
Yeah, he is. You don't fall off a cliff as a WR with a Pro Bowl QB at 35 and then bounce back at 37.
To be honest it's impressive enough he was essentially replacement-level at 36, but... no, he's done. He's not Jerry Rice.
Re: Drop In TO's Numbers Not TO's Fault
What continues to bother me is that FO stats (and even cursory observation) consistently rate Edwards as a better QB. (The exception being only at the end of the season after Fitzpatrick's impressive display against the Colts' practice squad.) And yet the consensus opinion is that Edwards was more useless to the team that Gibran Hamdan.
Re: Drop In TO's Numbers Not TO's Fault
Any chance that a team will take a Moss-In-Oakland chance on Owens and have him suddenly explode when freed from a terrible team?
Re: Drop In TO's Numbers Not TO's Fault
"Then if they are doing that job and have that type of title, then they should know and assess the situation as to why my numbers are down. Again, you have mentioned a guy like Trent Edwards and Ryan Fitzpatrick, when I signed there the coaching staff mentioned to me and they told me that Trent was an up and coming quarterback that can throw the ball down the field, he is accurate so I took them at their word for what they said. I understood that Lee had been there and had been productive the year before."
That's being thrown under the bus? Weak. More like being thrown under and old lady in a wheelchair.
Re: Drop In TO's Numbers Not TO's Fault
Honestly, what do you expect Owens to say? How often do you hear former great players who are willing to admit that they're washed up? It's much easier to blame the circumstances.
Unshakable confidence in one's own abilities is part of being a great player. That's why so many great players (in all sports) wind up going to a new team at the end of their career and spending a year or two embarrassing themselves. They have to prove to themselves what's already obvious to everyone else.
Re: Drop In TO's Numbers Not TO's Fault
Personally, I'd like to see more of Fitzpatrick at QB. He's crappy but cheap, you know what he's bad at(everything) and why spend on a good QB with no line? Let the Harvard grad do it. Pip pip!
/sarcasm
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