Re: The morning's What If . . . .
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Seeing Keenum being introduced by Elway (after Denver signed him) got me to thinkin':
What could McVay have done with Case as starting QB? I know. I know. It's all moot. Goff is the starter and his crazy, awesome, wicked, amazing leap from year one to year two tells us he's got big time upside and is heading for a Pro-Bowl career. I'm happy the Rams have him. But I still wish they had those draft picks too.
Anyway, Keenum was really good with the Vikes last year, showed consistently excellent pocket awareness, quick feet, a quick release, excellent accuracy, excellent decision-making . . . . and he didn't do that with the Rams..
Yes he did show those things with the Rams too. And in 2016 that was without a running game.
And he also showed with the Vikes the same flaw he had with the Rams---when the game depends entirely on him he can start throwing incompletes and INTs. He also is one of the many many qbs who falls apart when his OL collapses around him, which happened a couple of times with the Vikes.
At the end of 2015 I was describing CK's strengths in pretty much identical language to what you use here to describe him as a Viking. It was all visible then.
CK did not show anything new last year. What happened was, he was in a better situation. But he is still dependent on the running game, which he did not have in 2016. In fact the running game is so important to his success that last year Minn was 2nd in rushing attempts and 7th in rushing yards in spite of being 23rd in yards per carry (3.9). They knew they had to just keep pounding the run.
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Well said zn. I think you nailed it pretty well. If you could stop the Minny run game, you could cause CK to have issues. However, I will give him some cred as he did seem to make some really nice throws into tight windows and put the ball in spots where only his guy could get it. Had an uncanny ability to escape the sack or get the ball out "just in the nick of time". I don't think he will do as well in Denver. We shall see.
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“Now when I see it on the helmet, it just isn’t a ram horn. There is no distinct curl like a mature ram horn. I don’t know how the Rams could get that wrong. That is your symbol and it has been for what? Seventy years or more? Longer than I have been alive? It’s just not us, it’s not the Rams.”---Mr. Ram Jack Youngblood
