Forgive me if this has already been covered but I was curious if there's a possibility he will stay on as a backup? He looked good when played in the Titan game. It would be nice to have a seasoned backup for Shaub.
I've seen that a lot and I just don't get it. I saw him in the Titans game and sure he looked good, but that is a small sample size in which to base a decision. If he hadn't left in the tank, anything serious, then why were we able to pick him up as a free agent? TJ knew the system and had already developed some chemistry with his receiving corps. Live and die by TJ and I was fine with that.
It's not like TJ was a rookie playing against one of the best defenses in the NFL in a playoff game on the road or anything... ...Yates is the primary backup to Schaub. He locked it up by holding his own in a ridiculously tough situation and showing flashes of excellence in the process.
I mentioned in the game thread we should put Jake in the game about the second quarter and people were laughing at me. If he had played, we win the game imo.
BS, Delhomme has been just as inaccurate these past few years as TJ was that game. I bet he would throw at least the same number of interceptions (3) if not more.
Doubt it. And if you re-watch the game TJ is lucky he didn't have like 5 or 6 interceptions. He was awful. He couldn't even make a 5 yard lob pass, cant remember who it was to but he was wide open. Delhomme in no Tom Brady but I bet he could have made that throw.
He also had two or three key incompletions which were on the hands of the receiver and were just simply dropped. Yates is the backup going forward, Delhomme is on the wrong side of his entire football career. Yates will improve under Kubiak's tutelage.
Was he aweful . . . of did the #3 defense in the league make him look aweful? [Same with Joe Flacco] Rocket River Sometimes. . the defense makes you look bad
Tate wasn't wide open. There was a defender in front of him. If Yates didn't lob it, then it would have been intercepted or batted down. Yates sucks trying touch passes, but he is good in longer throws and throwing into tight windows (tighter than Schaub).
The last time Jake Delhomme started a playoff game he chucked five INT's against a defense that wasn't as good as the Ravens. Over the past few years he has a 10/25 TD/INT ratio. Had he played he would've been just as poor and turned the ball over just as much if not more so.
i'll say this, delhomme has much more experience in reading and discerning disguised coverages. tj was being dictated too, played like a fiddle. i doubt delhomme could have been played like that.
It's so weird how people choose to forget this. Experience does not equal No INT's. Jake could very easily have done a better job and could have just as easily done even worse. In that case you roll with the guy who has been there the whole season and started the previous 6 games.
Kubiak talked about that one pick after the game, he said that Yates did what he had been told to do based on the read he had, that the Ravens had just gameplanned really well and had a man in the perfect spot to come in and make the interception.
