Coeur de Lion said:
unckeyherb said:
Coeur de Lion said:
unckeyherb said:
cloppbeast said:
Chaka said:
I don't agree with that at all. Kelly's offense can be very favorable for QBs and if it can turn Mark Sanchez into a legitimate QB1 then I see no reason why it can't do the same for Bradford.
Declaring him a complete bust and cutting him after two games feels like a knee-jerk reaction.
At qb, our purposes differ an NFL team's. We have 12 starting, the NFL has 32. A middle of the road guy has very little use for us. A bust in our fantasy draft often is an 'ok' NFL qb.
You're probably right that calling him terrible has taken it too far. He's easily about an average player like Alex Smith. But Bradford has had an early career of mediocrity in St Louis, and now he's Kelly's first quarterback who didn't light it up his first two games. The book is almost finished.
wow, so he didn't blow up after two games and the book is almost closed? I couldn't disagree more with this assessment.
We actually have 51 games worth of Bradford from which to draw a conclusion.
not really. at least, not if you haven't already made up your mind.
Not sure what you mean here. It is actually a fact that Sam Bradford played in 49 games with the Rams and has played in two games with the Eagles. His time in STL is relevant, although there's a wide range of reasonable opinions on how relevant and what exactly were the reasons for his subpar performance there.
My opinion is that Bradford is still showing the same flaws in Philly that he did with the Rams -- he doesn't like pressure and takes the check down far too easily rather than hanging in to get the ball downfield. Can he improve? Yes, of course. But IMO we're rapidly approaching the "he is what he is" point, and IMO that's not an unreasonable opinion. I also don't think Bradford has the huge leash that others seem to believe he has. Sanchez isn't great by any stretch, but Chip can win with him -- another few games like the last two out of Bradford and I think he's done, and Chip will be looking again next offseason. And IMO that wouldn't be a huge fail either because he obviously didn't see Foles as a long term solution either.
What I mean is that he has played, like you said, 2 games in this offense. I really don't care too much what he did on a crappy team devoid of oline and offensive weapons, with a different Offensive coordinator every year and defensive minded coaches.
Saying that we are approaching "he is what he is" territory after 2 games IS unreasonable. I'm as pissed off about this team as anyone, but its 2 games. 2 games. Every year there are teams/players that start slow, fans go chicken little and then things get figured out. Eddie lacy, at this point last year, looked like a train wreck. I was eating #### from everyone in my league for keeping him. fast forward to the end of the year and the guy was a key component to me winning everything. The current amount of over reaction about the birds is crazy. Let Chip do his job and adjust. This is reminiscent of Chip's first year.
Crushing back to back losses to Dallas and NY put us at 3-5 and the world was ending. They then ripped off 7 wins over the last 8 games.