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He simply cannot not function without everything being perfect for him.
It always surprises me when veteran football fans simply do not know how to factor in what a collapsed OL does to qb play.
Instead of accounting for the collapse, they go to a hyperbolic extreme and say "he can't play without things being perfect."
With all due respect to you as a Rams fan and fellow poster, I say...
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Your argument depends on acting like qbs can elevate a collapsed OL. Whenever I ask for examples of that, I never get ANY that hold up. (For example, Warner struggled behind subpar OLs in 2002 and with the Giants in 2004.)
And for me, this debate goes back to 2007 when Bulger was being bulgerized behind a record-breaking OL injury epidemic.
We heard the "he needs things to be perfect" strawman back then, too.
I have only seen 2 qbs who played effectively when their OLs collapsed--Brady and Wilson. And even then it would catch up with them in crucial games. Heck a subpar OL drove Steve Young out of the game.
This is my position. Not factoring in what a collapsed OL does to the qb (and playcalling for that matter) is just simply not realistic analysis. That has been my position for years. In those years lots and lots of disbelievers came at me with what they thought were counter-examples, and, they were wrong--invariably what they were pointing to was a relatively healthy OL that could still play. With the kind of data we have available to us online these days, that is very easy to prove.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/17/2019 07:10AM by zn.