Chad's completion ratio is so high because he cant throw a football farther than 10 yards. He can manage an offense and not make mistakes, but he's not a guy I want at QB if we are in the hole and need to score. I know a lot of people weren't happy with the offense we ran last season because of the limited amount of shots we took down field throughout most of the season, it'd be even worse with Chad at qb.
Leinart is arguably the one that needs to be mentioned here. Of all QB's, including even all backups, he has to be among the ones that has shown least ability to score. It's so obvious, he plays not to make an mistake. Not to win and score. And even in that case, he makes tons of mistakes. If you want to score some points, there are dozen of options better than Leinart. In fact, almost any guy you pick up, would be better suited for that task.
Chad's completion percentage is high, because of his extreme mid range accuracy. That's why Warner's is high as well. That's where the most difficult throws are. There have been so many QB's over the time that were not able to play the deep and even medium game, and the dumpoff was the last option. These QB's are not even close in having the stats that Pennington has. So obviously, he is special. He can do much more than the dumpoff.
It's not like Warner is throwing deep all the time. This year, his injury has prevented him from going deep. Yet his level of play was far enough for us to go to another super bowl. It proves that KW is KW because of that medium range game, and not the deep ball. It was defense and Bill Davis that prevented us. That's what westcoast is about, and that's what as example Montana was also about.
Deep ball has some impact, i'm not denying that. KW was better last year than this one due to that fact. But my point is that this has only a marginal impact compared to the way you play over the middle, your touch, playcalling, what kind of man you are in the huddle and the pocket.
Somebody mention that Pennington will never lead a team to superbowl. Depends where he plays. I'm sure that Kurt Warner would never lead anyone to superbowl without Holt, Bruce, Faulk, Fitzgerald, Boldin, Breaston. Chad has never had a target even close to these 6. They have all been a joke compared to these guys. How would his stats look like with HOF recieving corp instead of an average or below average? Personally, i'd like to see that. We don't need a bullet arm, ala Jamarcus Russell deep to Ted Gin Jr. All we need is great accuracy and intelligence and toughness. Pennington, McNabb or Clausen to me in the next coming years. I think that we will go for trading up to get Clausen.
