Ouchie-Z-Clown
I'm better than Mulli!
following my discussion of the "good" i have to now fall back to my customary position of what stunk. kurt warner.
first allow me to say that i appreciated that he warrior'ed up and try to play today. second let me say that he's just done as a full-time game winning pro quarterback. as much as everyone doesn't want to admit it, what we're seeing kurt is exactly the same thing that we saw from kurt last year. a quarterback who cannot avoid the killer turnover and now has trouble with game management (though part of that is attributable to the coaching staff). that's three turnovers in the game. and we can argue whether the fumble was his fault as it was a blideside hit, but as i said in another thread, not all QBs ALWAYS fumble when hit, but kurt does. the pick he threw for the td was a killer. anyone see that stat during the game? something like teams that return an int for a TD win 79% of the time. so kurt's error narrowed our window of opportunity to 21% chance to win. (okay, i don't really believe that stat as a rule, but it's a telling stat nonetheless and needn't and shouldn't be ignored).
for years we dealt with jake's mistakes b/c he brought us back until we finally realized that it was just too much pressure he was creating for the team as a whole. kurt is the new, older version of jake. he has his positives and negatives, only his negatives outweigh his positives, most of the times these days.
if we could only have him in doses he'd be great. harry was spot-on in this observation. and please don't anyone think i'm clamoring for either of the timmy's, i'm not. i realize that of what we have available, warner's our best bet to win. i'm only pointing out that said "best bet" is more than likely a losing proposition.
again, credit to warner for buckling it up. but also recognition that he was a key component for why we lost and why we will likely continue to lose.
first allow me to say that i appreciated that he warrior'ed up and try to play today. second let me say that he's just done as a full-time game winning pro quarterback. as much as everyone doesn't want to admit it, what we're seeing kurt is exactly the same thing that we saw from kurt last year. a quarterback who cannot avoid the killer turnover and now has trouble with game management (though part of that is attributable to the coaching staff). that's three turnovers in the game. and we can argue whether the fumble was his fault as it was a blideside hit, but as i said in another thread, not all QBs ALWAYS fumble when hit, but kurt does. the pick he threw for the td was a killer. anyone see that stat during the game? something like teams that return an int for a TD win 79% of the time. so kurt's error narrowed our window of opportunity to 21% chance to win. (okay, i don't really believe that stat as a rule, but it's a telling stat nonetheless and needn't and shouldn't be ignored).
for years we dealt with jake's mistakes b/c he brought us back until we finally realized that it was just too much pressure he was creating for the team as a whole. kurt is the new, older version of jake. he has his positives and negatives, only his negatives outweigh his positives, most of the times these days.
if we could only have him in doses he'd be great. harry was spot-on in this observation. and please don't anyone think i'm clamoring for either of the timmy's, i'm not. i realize that of what we have available, warner's our best bet to win. i'm only pointing out that said "best bet" is more than likely a losing proposition.
again, credit to warner for buckling it up. but also recognition that he was a key component for why we lost and why we will likely continue to lose.