September 23, 2016 01:09PM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 2,506
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I think we know why. Because if you don't reformulate it, it sounds crazy.
If Snead had said "If Case Keenum had been our starter, we might possibly have eked a couple more wins over the last two seasons", I probably wouldn't call that crazy. I might call it speculative and wishful thinking.
I may or may not agree with it, however. I think that the games we won early last year over Seattle and Arizona with Foles playing pretty decent at the time, probably would not have been won with the Keenum I've seen so far, so that really is a debatable statement in itself.
But you're taking his crazy statement that they WOULD HAVE made the playoffs, and toning it down to something considerably more reasonable and then asking me why I still think that's crazy.
To do that and think that you're refuting anything...is crazy.
I'm really not trying to *reformulate* anything; I'm trying to translate "making the playoffs" into wins and losses. So I'm thinking, hmmm, 9-7 usually does it; that's a couple more wins than they got each year. In fact, that's wrong. Last year, and I think the year before, Rams would've needed to go 10-6 to make the playoffs. That's 3 more wins, rather than the 2 I suggested. Feels unlikely, but not "crazy" given how awful the QB play was, how much better than THAT Keenum has been since last year in all but the SF game - not great by any stretch but better than THAT - and how many close games the Rams lost.
So, at most, the difference between my "reasonable reformulation" and Snead's "crazy" talk is one win per season.
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