Impressive Quarter back

[Paso Fino]

Kolb was very impressive in the last drive. But Russell Wilson is for real. If he continues to play as he did today, he will be a real star in the NFL. He was calm, cool and collected and accurate with most of his passes.

 

[Dback Jon]

He looked ok, but I was not blown away by him. With out Seattle special teams, the game is not close.

 

[52brandon]

"For real" only described one rookie QB today. And that happened in NO

 

[Darkside]

"For real" only described one rookie QB today. And that happened in NO

Well said. RG3 really separated himself from the rest of the pack today.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Kolb was very impressive in the last drive. But Russell Wilson is for real. If he continues to play as he did today, he will be a real star in the NFL. He was calm, cool and collected and accurate with most of his passes.

He had just over a 50% completion percentage and a rating of 62.5??? His average yards per pass was 4.5?

I wasn't impressed at all. More mad at our poor tackling.

 

[Darkside]

Kolb was very impressive in the last drive. But Russell Wilson is for real. If he continues to play as he did today, he will be a real star in the NFL. He was calm, cool and collected and accurate with most of his passes.

Wait until guys get some tape built up on him and study his tendencies. Then we'll see how for real he actually is. He only completed 52% of his passes and didn't do anything that made me say "wow". Unlike Cam last year in game 1. I'm not saying he won't be good, just saying he didn't prove that today.

 

[az1965]

Kolb was very impressive in the last drive. But Russell Wilson is for real. If he continues to play as he did today, he will be a real star in the NFL. He was calm, cool and collected and accurate with most of his passes.

I would beg to differ...

18/34 (52.9%) is hardly accurate.

153 yards is pedestrian. From a scoring perspective he got the benefit of a great long KO return, a great long punt return, and a TO... all three near or in our red zone. Let's see how many drives he takes down the length of the football field.

He got 8/20 on running... again nothing to wow. Some tackles/sacks he slithered thru but I would say some of them was our guys not making proper tackles. DD let on sack slip even though he had his both arms around him.

I was totally not impressed.

 

[az1965]

"For real" only described one rookie QB today. And that happened in NO

Yep!

 

[NMCard]

He got a little help from the stripes. I was not as impressed with him Heath Evans was.

 

[Darkside]

He got a little help from the stripes. I was not as impressed with him Heath Evans was.

 

[WarnerHOF]

Anybody who thinks Russell Wilson is going to be good is delusional. Blitz and play contain all day and he is going to be a useless player because he can't read plays on short drop backs.

 

[52brandon]

Well said. RG3 really separated himself from the rest of the pack today.

Yep!

very much so. For what WAS gave up for him, he really showed em today that it wasn't a mistake. Something that I thought was impossible draft day, considering his steep cost. I was wrong. Kid was lights out. 139.9 QB rating in his first game really says it all...

 

[Jetstream Green]

Kolb was very impressive in the last drive. But Russell Wilson is for real. If he continues to play as he did today, he will be a real star in the NFL. He was calm, cool and collected and accurate with most of his passes.

WHAT? I supported the guy in the draft but he looked anything but calm or collect or accurate (dink passes do not count) and how many potential laterals behind the line was complete give away on how cool he was under pressure.

 

[crisper57]

Wilson sucked. Without some of those phantom PI's, he doesn't move his offense down the field. He's a run first guy, which won't work in this league. Not impressed.

 

[NashDishesDimes]

He was bad, and half his drives that stalled were jump started because of interference calls

 

[Krangodnzr]

Very, very ordinary. Not impressive at all.

 

[kerouac9]

Yeah... Russell Wilson looked better to me than Max Hall did, but...

...Wilson reminds me of Colt McCoy. I didn't see a big arm; I didn't see exceptional accuracy; I didn't see clutch performance (he had a chance to make his mark and made two big mistakes: targeted Braylon Edwards and threw the ball high).

Russell Wilson has a LONG way to go. I don't think you can live and die on bubble screens. I'm not sure why Wilson didn't go deep a few more times.

 

[ajcardfan]

All four of their scoring drives were on short fields due to 2 big returns and 2 turnovers. The biggest drive was the last one, but without two PIs that one doesn't make it into the redzone either.

He was hard to sack, but I think he has limited upside beyond that. When you are that short, you'd better be deadly accurate and he isn't.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

Kolb was very impressive in the last drive. But Russell Wilson is for real. If he continues to play as he did today, he will be a real star in the NFL. He was calm, cool and collected and accurate with most of his passes.

We must have been watching two different QB's. I was not impressed in the least. His deep balls have the hangtime of punts and his WR's bailed him out more than once. I pretty much thought he was very below average, which was about what I expected. Seattle won't win many games with him back there. On a side note, I don't think any QB, other than Weeden, looked as bad as Vick. He would just drop back and seemed to throw it in a genereal area and hope someone catches it.

 

[Garthshort]

Put me down as impressed. He wasn't great today, but overall, he looked good. I wish we had him.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

Put me down as impressed. He wasn't great today, but overall, he looked good. I wish we had him.

It's your opinion but what did he do that was impressive? He threw 34 times for 154 yards and had a 62.5 rating. He had an INT and a fumble and only ran for 20 yards on 8 carries. I just didn't see anything that makes him a NFL starting QB. Like the guy I compared him to, he was very Troy Smith like, without the arm strength.

 

[Mulli]

It's your opinion but what did he do that was impressive? He threw 34 times for 154 yards and had a 62.5 rating. He had an INT and a fumble and only ran for 20 yards on 8 carries. I just didn't see anything that makes him a NFL starting QB. Like the guy I compared him to, he was very Troy Smith like, without the arm strength.

Ya, he looked pretty mediocre yesterday. Seattle's kick returns and the pass interference penalties bailed him out big time.

 

[Pariah]

I think he's going to be fine. I'm seeing you guys through around words like "average" and "ordinary." Guys, he wasn't supposed to make the team, much less start in his first game as a rook. "Average" and "Ordinary" under these circumstances is pretty good, IMO.

I think the thing that impressed me the most is his pocket presence. The Cards were in the backfield all day and he was giving them fits by moving in the pocket.

Does today signal greatness for him? No way; not by a long shot. But it also doesn't signal his demise. He looks to be on the way to becoming a decent NFL QB, IMO.

 

[Mulli]

I think he's going to be fine. I'm seeing you guys through around words like "average" and "ordinary." Guys, he wasn't supposed to make the team, much less start in his first game as a rook. "Average" and "Ordinary" under these circumstances is pretty good, IMO.

I think the thing that impressed me the most is his pocket presence. The Cards were in the backfield all day and he was giving them fits by moving in the pocket.

Does today signal greatness for him? No way; not by a long shot. But it also doesn't signal his demise. He looks to be on the way to becoming a decent NFL QB, IMO.

If he is not a decent NFL QB yet, that makes him less than average? I at least gave him mediocre.

 

[Pariah]

If he is not a decent NFL QB yet, that makes him less than average?

I wasn't grading on a scale. He's a rookie playing in the first game of the season. No, he's not average as compared to veteran starters at the position. He's probably better than average if you compare him to the long list of rookies playing in this situation for the past 50 years. He did some things poorly (accuracy, timing), he did others well (pocket presence, demeanor).

JMHO

It just seems to me that plenty of people are writing him off based on yesterday's game. I don't see any reason at all for that.