Okay... Matt Schaub QB rating: 97.9 (9th) Yards: 1418 (3rd) Yards/attempt: 7.92 (9th) TDs: 10 (2nd) Now, you tried to show that Matt Schaub only has these numbers because of his play against crap teams...and I showed you that by that logic, the same could be said about Brady. There you have it.
Week 1: DOA Week 2: 21-7 hole in the 2nd quarter, explode for 24 points, only a FG in 4th Week 3: 21 pt first half, only a FG after Week 4: 20 pt first half, nothing after (from the offense) Week 5: goose egg first half, 21 pts after Offense hasn't come close to putting an entire game together. Generally speaking, they get hot for 2 or 3 drives and disappear. That's what happens when you don't have a running game to act as your constant. The team as a whole, and not just this year, has had a bad habit of going flat for long stretches. It's one major argument for a new coach - how motivated are these guys? Rarely do we see a fire under them unless they're in a big hole. Kubiak has done a great job assembling this passing attack and clearing out the Casserly era. But he may have reached the ceiling for where he can take them.
when, in this franchise's history, have we ever used the likes of brady and manning to measure our QB's effectiveness? i think that, alone, speaks volumes.
Shaub should be compared to Matt Ryan and Joe Flaco, not Manning and Brady. He belongs in the class of new upstart QBs, not the MVPs.
When I brought up Brady's name, it wasnt to compare the two quarterbacks...it was to show that the logic used to downgrade Schaub's performance can be applied to even the best QBs in the game. Basically, when someone says, "look, Schaub plays plays well against the bad teams and sucks against the good teams"...well, I can also show, through statistics, that the same could be said about Brady. Schaub is a good QB and our passing game is elite. There is no reason to talk about Schaub when discussing the weaknesses of this team.
That's my point. The running game has been CONSISTENTLY bad all season long. To be inconsistent, the running game would've had to be good here and there, but that hasn't happened. It's just been GOD AWFUL for just about every quarter of every game. Is it time to scrap this silly zone blocking scheme? Agreed, but you could also argue that they abandon that GOD AWFUL running game when they fall behind; hence the scoring explosions. The passing game has consistently got us back in games when we fell way behind (titans, Cardinals). No argument from me. Capers reached his ceiling at 7-9. Perhaps Kubiak's ceiling is just putting an average team on the field. I hope not, because it's hard not to like the guy and hope he succeeds. But I question some of his loyalties to these inexperienced coordinators.
