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stlramz
i would say he would be the best backup we had since the warner/bulger/green era.
a guy you can trust to hold down the fort for a game or a series, even play off the hook at times - like how he lit up the lions for most of the game.
good teammate
I basically agree but I would put that differently.
If you look at him as a #2 caliber qb---not just a guy who is the #2, which often included #1 caliber qbs (Ferragamo, Everett, Warner, Green, Bulger, and for that matter Goff)---then I would say he's the best they've had since Jamie Martin...and Martin had the benefit of working with GSOT starters like Bruce and Holt.
And actually, even at 50%, the team has the best winning percentage starting him at qb of any other Rams qb since Warner. (The team was not 50% with either Bulger or Bradford).
And unlike them, more than half of that was without a running game.
IMO if they had a running game in 2016 his percentage would be higher.
You can win with a Keenum if you have the running game and the defense.
He cracked too many times under the pressure of it all falling on him, but then that's why he's not a #1 caliber qb. But he did bring things to the game--smarts, leadership, toughness, and even some improv skills (he has some of the best qb improv plays we've seen from a Rams qb, including things like flipping the ball to his left hand to throw a left-handed safety-valve dump-off while under pressure).
Goff, when he's really acclimated, will be the kind of qb who (IMO) actually IS the kind of guy they can win with even without a running game.
But it was ideal for Goff to be learning from Keenum.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/16/2016 09:46PM by zn.
