-Watched the whole game and Edwards was very average in this game and like the Dallas game almost cost his team the game with a terrible interception that lead to Baltimore getting back in the game in the second half. -People keep on saying he is a good game manager which is very hard to agree with at this point. I mean a good manager wins games when your team gets 6 turn overs from the other team (he didin't against dallas). Good game managers don't throw bad interceptions when your team is up by 10 plus points in the second half on 3rd down and deep in your own end. -He is a rookie and who knows how he will pan out or how this situation will play out, but he has been clearly average up to this point and anyone saying otherwise is fooling themselves. I am not impressed with him but I am not unimpressed either. I am tired of people getting overly excited about a guy who has thrown 1 TD in the last 3 games though and his team is struggling to put points on the board. -I think he keeps the starting job for another week, but if they lose and he plays bad he will be pulled.
Nobody is saying he's Brady. The point is that average = good by rookie standards. The fact that he's even comparable to Losman already (and arguably better) speaks volumes. Losman in his 1st year starting in 2005 was about 12 notches below average. He struggled to complete a pass vs. the dreadful defenses of the Falcons & Saints.
Yea, that pretty much nails it.Edwards has completed 66% of his passes for a yards per attempt average of 6.6 and a QB rating of 71.3. Compare those numbers to other first year starters:Trent Edwards - 66.0% - 6.6 - 71.3Carson Palmer - 60.9% - 6.7 - 77.3Drew Brees - 60.8% - 6.2 - 76.9Philp Rivers - 61.7% - 7.4 - 92.0Matt Hasselbeck - 54.8% - 6.3 - 70.9Tom Brady - 63.9% - 6.9 - 86.5Peyton Manning - 56.7% - 6.5 - 71.2 Ben Roethlisberger - 66.4% - 8.9 - 98.1 Steve McNair - 52.0% - 6.4 - 70.4 Eli Manning - 52.8% - 6.8 - 75.9First year QBs generally do not perform very well. Look at this list. The numbers Edwards is posting are in the same ballpark as what guys like Palmer, Brees, Hasselbeck, Peyton, Eli, and McNair put up in their first starting seasons. A number of those guys were actually 2nd-3rd year players when they got their first crack as a starter. Rivers had much better numbers, but he was a third year player in his first starting season. Brady was a second year player. Roethlisberger is really the only rookie QB in recent memory to come in and play like a Pro Bowler. I think we can all agree that he's an exception to the norm. There's no guarantee that Edwards will make any progress. Maybe teams will figure him out and his performance will actually regress. But you can't discount his performance so far. Merely being average is a major accomplishment for most rookie QBs. So when you take that into consideration, I'd say Edwards has played pretty well so far. People who expect him to be throwing for 250 yards and 2 scores every week aren't being realistic. Rookie QBs don't do that.
There are, however, extenuating circumstances to the equation. I just find it hard how JP can fall so hard based on 2 games vs. a couple of the top-rated defenses in the league...
There are, however, extenuating circumstances to the equation. I just find it hard how JP can fall so hard based on 2 games vs. a couple of the top-rated defenses in the league...
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After beating Baltimore, I also now agree that Edwards should keep the job.
