Your Evaluation of Skelton's Play?

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Common sense and logic with the benefit of hindsight would likely prove you to be right. Keep in mind I was a Leinart guy. But more importantly Wiz was not. Who knows maybe he saw the bigger picture past this season and thought if we go 8-8 with Leinart and then he is pressured to keep going through a charade that he can win the big one with Matt, when he obviously didnt think he could, would put the franchise back even further. Going 8-8 would have been a big improvement for this year, but would you want to go 8-8 for the next 5? Apparently Wiz fel their was a ceiling to where Matt could take this team, and anyone thinking Matt would eventually take us to a Superbowl at this point is myopic at best.

And now watching DA, yeah of course it makes sense that he sucked last year and would suck this year. But I for one thought Wiz would coach him up a bit and that Cleveland was a unwinnable situation. Thats obviously been proven wrong, but the logic at the beginning of the season isn't that far fetched.

Either way its all spilled milk now. For whatever reason Wiz didn't want Leinart and cut bait. His back up plan or what he was left with was DA.

Maybe we should wait with a full offseason to evaluate the QB situation as presently constituited and judge Wiz what he does from here. Last year didn't go according to plan and there was alot of things that can be assumed now, but weren't a given at the time.

Maybe Wiz will look a lot smarter with the same hindsight available to him that we as a fanbase have now, no?

this is very well-thought out analysis. makes sense to me.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

I really doubt there is a coach in the league that can turn DA around.

and yet, somehow that guy is likely gonna end up on some team's roster (please god, don't let it be us again).

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

During the telecast they cut to John's family and mentioned that his Dad is also named John, and had a football background. There was a CFL star player by the name of John Skelton, and wonder if this could be his father?

I hope it's not this guy .
http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...ing-boys-father-back-in-michigan.html?sid=101

 

[rode kardinaal]

he has still not been cleared to play and is still suffering from "concussion-like" symptoms.

My best guess would be that one of the tests they're administering to him is for him to look at at moving target a couple of yards away and then try to aim for it and touch or hit it.

Also, 'perseverating' (repeating the same thing over and over, despite being told the answer each time) is one of the symptoms of a concussion. The doctors might have seen his play and must have concluded that despite the coaches efforts to present him with the right solution on the field in a certain play over and over again, and DA's continuous faulty decision making each and every time, that nobody who plays quarterback can suck that bad so there has to be a concussion still.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

I don't have the quote, there might not be one, but I think Whiz acknowledges that his QB decisions haven't worked out. Myself, I can admit that watching Leinart, even if he floundered would have been better than watching the Scud scud all over the place.


What is this relevant to again?

He also said that he would do it again....

 

[Mulli]

He also said that he would do it again....

Coachspeak.