LOL, you are always impressed by things you shouldn't be impressed by. Trent Dilfer has a SB ring, it doesn't mean what you think it means.
Flacco lead a old Ravens team to a SB, Lewis was past his prime and hindered them more than helped, Ed Reed was slow, the best player on their D was Ngata. Dilfer was playing with Lewis in his prime, Peter Boulware, and primetime not to mention shannon sharpe and Jamaal Lewis
Average Joe was the king of the hail mary style pass and had a ton of luck, not to mention that "old Ravens team" managed to hold the best offense in the NFL to 13 points....but sure, old Average Joe was a superhero LOL.
1140 yards 11 Tds 0 ints 117.2 qb rating Nothing average about that Leagues better than anything we have here...
Yes, his WR corps should be credited for managing to come down with all of those throws up for grabs, but be real, you can't actually think (or given your other QB takes, maybe you can) that Joe Flacco is a worth a damn QB. Here, let's do a fun exercise. QB A: 3912 yards, 59% completion %, 19 TD's 22 interceptions, 73.1 QB rating QB B: 4183 yards, 58.6% completion %, 19 TD's 22 interceptions, 74 QB rating
In case you haven't figured it out, QB A was Average Joe last year, QB B was the 3 BS QB's in Houston last year.
That's the Louisville vs Rutgers game. That's was pretty good. Looked more like he was just throwing it to a spot and his receiver beat the coverage to me but still a good pass. Teddy had a 79 QBR against Rutgers and Blake had a 96 QBR against Rutgers (and Blake's receivers drop a lot of balls). You should watch Blake's tape against Rutgers. Louisville uses Teddy in more of a game managing role because they have a dominant defense and a defensive minded head coach. He makes a lot of short pass to the outside and his downfield passes are usually lob touch passes to spots and or timing throws down the field. They don't put him in position to make mistakes and take a lot of risk. And he doesn't take a lot of risk if any (which can't really be considered a bad thing). Teddy's teammates needed him to come through in the 3rd quarter of the UCF game when the pressure was on and he didn't and that's why they didn't go to a big boy bowl game and UCF did. Louisville's defense doesn't get the credit it deserves and Teddy's receivers aren't garbage. But Teddy may be
Yes Flacco is an overpaid average QB, but he carried that team in the post season, he was incredible. Much like Eli when he won his superbowls .
1. "Throwing to a spot" is exactly what a great qb is supposed to do. If you throw it to where a receiver is at you will throw it behind him. The point is to have such command of the offense that you know where the receiver will be in relation to the defense. 2. Can we not bring up imaginary stats made up and propped up by ESPN 3. The offense that he runs is a carbon clone copy of the Raiders WCO offense, so I dont get what your talking about 4. He came throw in the 4th and his defense gave up a touchdown at the end 5. You keep throwing horse poop hoping in fain that it sticks. Your wrong give it up
Ah, so since you don't have an argument based on individual performance, you rely on team performance? Nice.
LOL, "forget the stats" people always want to forget the stats when they don't say what they want them to.
Yet they had a safer run game, better defense (by what matters), better special teams, a much better secondary, and much better pass rush. The QB play was a wash, in fact the only difference between the Ravens offense and the Texans offense was that their guys fumbled less and their kicker made more FT's and their special teams gave up fewer points than ours did. But yeah, let's talk about the QB difference.
The pick sixes is what killed our defenses ppg Our defense was better all around, their secondary was average and pass rush was sporadic I don't recall Flacco throwing pick size's like it was going out of style
Perhaps you should double check that, because you're wrong. The Texans had the second worst secondary in the NFL, largely because they had such a terrible pass rush and the Ravens threw more interceptions than the Texans did.
Throwing to spots is more of a design of the offense and less of an indication that the quarterback can actually read defenses. Especially a college quarterback going up against weak defensive competition and or in a control none risk offense like the one Teddy is in. Just depends on how you look at it I guess. That's why I told you to watch Teddy's game against Rutgers and Blake's game against Rutgers (since you brought it up)*and you'll see the difference between a team depending on their quarterback to manage the game and a team depending on their quarterback to win. And how good is the raiders offense...??? Lol... Hope O'Brien doesn't run that. Teddy came through in the 4th quarter in a losing effort. He had his opportunity to get a bigger lead for his team in the 3rd and he blew it.
