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  1. Spielman

    DA through the eyes of a rational Browns fan

    Cmp%+. Note the plus sign. Cmp%+ and similar stats compare the QB to the league. You have a completion percentage of 60 in a league that also has a completion percentage of 60, your Cmp%+ is 100, indicating that you're league average. Higher than 100 is better than the league, lower is...
  2. Spielman

    Derek Anderson = Kent Graham.

    Similar passer ratings, 69.0 to 69.7. Similar completion percentages, 51.8 to 52.9. Similar bodies. Similar records as a starter, 17-21 to 16-18. Yeah, I'd say it's a very good comparison. Graham was better at avoiding turnovers, by a solid margin.
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    DA through the eyes of a rational Browns fan

    Has anyone ever in NFL history shown as little accuracy as Anderson has over as long as he has and then rebounded to be a reasonably accurate passer? The best comp I can think of is Steve Young, and the comparison isn't that strong because Young didn't play as much as Anderson has before he...
  4. Spielman

    Warner's Take on Leinart

    This. The big mistake isn't benching Leinart now, it's failing to secure a better option than Derek Anderson in the offseason, since it's obvious they weren't comfortable with Leinart.
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    ESPN just announced Leinart probably will be cut

    Y'know how you can tell that anyone connected with personnel decisions on an NFL team is lying? His lips are moving. Of course they've discussed what do with with Leinart after they announce that Anderson is the starter. It would be ridiculous for them not to have done so. This is the usual...
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    Coaches are admitting failure

    Well, it improved a little bit. The raw fumble numbers don't look any better from 2007-2009, but taking into account the extra playing time, they did drop. The INT% was better than league average each of the last two seasons as well. What didn't do a damned thing was the gloves. Warner was...
  7. Spielman

    Match the arestee with his NFL tattoo

    5/5. It's all about matching skin tones.
  8. Spielman

    After watching the NFLN replay...

    Kind of funny, given that the guy starting the thread spent quite a bit of time being accused of hating Leinart because he preferred Warner. I get the knocks on Leinart. And I understand the "Trust Whiz" brigade, because he's certainly earned some trust. I just don't understand how anything...
  9. Spielman

    My reasoning for the whole QB issue

    Um. You got used to having an unquestioned starter in just 2009? That was quick. Remember the preseason battle in 2008? Leinart being the starter to start 2007, but Warner spelling him with the no-huddle before Leinart got hurt? Warner starting 2006 with people calling for Leinart beginning...
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    My reasoning for the whole QB issue

    If they were caught flat-footed, they really shouldn't have been, and even if they were surprised, they had plenty of time to discuss things and formulate a plan before free agency started. It's not like the situation dragged on for ages.
  11. Spielman

    Which QB leads Cards to three-peat?

    Mine was going to be Alex Smith/Matt Hasselbeck/Sam Bradford. :D
  12. Spielman

    Peter King this morning on Matt Leinart

    Heh. Could that possibly be a starker contrast to the last QB?
  13. Spielman

    "Derrick Anderson Sucks"

    That is a tremendously lenient definition of "lights-out" you have going there. He was 17th in passer rating, for crying out loud. His pro-bowl selection was silly. He was average for one season, not better than that.
  14. Spielman

    KTAR Reporting That The Cardinals Will Sign Derek Anderson

    Anderson is big, has a good arm, and can get it downfield well. That's the good. But he's about as inaccurate as a pocket passer can be and still have a job in the NFL. Seriously. He's Mike Vick inaccurate. As a backup I kind of like him, because he's experienced, can make any throw you ask...
  15. Spielman

    Does a team take a flyer on Tebow in the 1st round??

    Thing is, it only takes one. (Well, one that has a suspicion that there might be more than one.) Matt Jones and Sebastian Janikowski come to mind... there was a wide range of opinion on both those guys, on where they should go, and both went early. I kind of expect that Tebow will be the same...
  16. Spielman

    Cards Getting Love From SI

    Which way? That Warner's success was just from the receivers, or that it's a similar lazy answer to Whisenhunt's success being from the quarterbacks?
  17. Spielman

    Does a team take a flyer on Tebow in the 1st round??

    Yeah, I'm not exactly unconcerned about Bradford's shoulder, but I don't see how having one separated shoulder that got re-injured a few weeks later translates to "as fragile as bulger" and "will never have a healthy QB". I'm afraid you're right about Claussen. I don't think there's much...
  18. Spielman

    Cards Getting Love From SI

    There's the similar lazy answer on Kurt Warner, which is that he put up good numbers because of the phenomenal group of receivers he had. Twice. I personally figure that any player performing at an elite level has to be first put into the position to succeed, and second, capable of performing...
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    Does a team take a flyer on Tebow in the 1st round??

    Yeah, it might very well turn out better than Bradford and some schlub in the 2nd. But I don't think that it would be because of Tebow.
  20. Spielman

    Does a team take a flyer on Tebow in the 1st round??

    I'm scared enough that the Rams will take him in the 2nd.
  21. Spielman

    Cards Getting Love From SI

    No, I'm pretty sure that's the definition of an opinion.
  22. Spielman

    Kevin Mawae?

    Absolutely not. Continuity is king on the offensive line.
  23. Spielman

    Cards Getting Love From SI

    Yeah, that's exactly what I thought when I saw it. The article is taking things that the writer sees as not being terrible in the context of the Cardinals having vision and direction for the first time in basically forever, and is trying to sell them as evidence that the Cardinals have vision...
  24. Spielman

    Is Mike Vick an option at this point?

    A guy like Pennington or Carr gives you that, without the massive publicity headaches.
  25. Spielman

    Warner's Future (press conference)

    Warner's career has taught me something, over and over and over. No matter what you do, and no matter how you go about doing it, somebody somewhere will think you did it wrong.

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