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LesBaker
Green and Warner both played several games with the exact same players.
It's no mystery, and this is certainly not a slam on Green but if Warner played all 16 games in 2000 the Rams would have won more than 10 games and rather than falling into the playoffs due to a fluke Bears win IIRC..............they may have been playing at home during the playoffs rather than playing the Saints on the road. Winning two more games is entirely realistic with Warner playing all year.
Green was very good, but unless people have memory issues Warner was vaporizing offenses and racking up a record setting pace for yards, YPA and very nearly for TD's. It was extraordinary the way that offense destroyed people while getting ZERO help from the defense all game and all year long. They would have made a run at 600 points had he played all year.
I like Trent Green, he is an excellent QB. But without Warner 1999 is a fantastic season for fans, but there would be no SB win. The Bucs would have gone to the big game.
I don't want to be taken as contributing to the
completely imaginary idea that people are trying to make Green and Warner equivalent.
BUT just discussing Green as Green, without any need to once again reiterate the completely universally agreed upon idea that Warner was elite and Green was very good (2 different levels)...
...Green was not fully back from the knee in 2000. That was a judgment many people shared at the time. He was not his former self and not the Green he would become in KC either. Given that he still did a credible job and
was ALMOST the qb he would be with a great OL and great running game in Kansas City.
So unnecessary comparisons aside, IMO it;s not entirely fair to Green to judge Green AS GREEN on the basis of 2000.
Even given all that, he threw 16 TDs in 5 games to 5 INTs and had a qb rating of 101.8, and that's without Faulk in 2 of those games.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/23/2017 10:40AM by zn.
