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This article doesn't seem particularly honest or objective.
Maybe not. But it is factual. Stafford has made it to the postseason 3 times in 12 years. That's 25%. We can debate how much of it was Stafford not being able to elevate his team or how much his team failed him. But facts are facts. He did have weapons around him. He did have a lot of losing. What he didn't have was a trend setting offensive mind designing the offense around him. We're going to see what happens when he has all those things. And if he has success, detractors will probably say, "well yeah, he had all those things around him".
I partly agree and partly disagree. You mention the team not coming through with him--I do agree with that.
I disagree that a good qb needs a trend setting offensive mind. How many superbowl winning teams had that? Certainly not all of them. I don't even think it was many of them. Go back to Don Coryell, the first in a several decades series of trend setting offensive minds that came after the great offense-favoring rules changes in 78. Coryell did not win a superbowl. Martz never did much of anything in the league after his Vermeil-built Rams team faded away, Walsh won several but then so did Flores and Parcells. So you do not need that...though of course, I ain't scoffing at it. It's just not the big key factor.
Here's what Detroit did NOT have when he was there:
* a consistently good defense. It was good for 3 of his 12 years there (in those 3 years it was ranked 2nd, 10th, & 13th). In fact mostly it was downright awful and usually ranked in the 20s when it wasn't in the bottom 3.
* a consistently good running game. The best the Stafford Lions ever ranked in yards per carry was 13th in 2011. Most of the time it was ranked 20th or below and mostly below. In fact a couple of times it ranked 32nd.
* the chance to play with leads or ties. Stafford played from behind a huge percentage of the time.
If all you have in that mixture is receiving weapons sometimes, you don't do very well as a team. It's just not enough.
Rams do have the offensive mind (though he has to improve in some areas, and there's a chance Stafford will actually help with that).
But they also (presumably if not most likely) have the running game and defense.
And they don't play from behind nearly as often as the Lions have.
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/09/2021 04:25PM by zn.
