Re: I remember that play

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mtramfan
You write, ".Stafford avoids a rusher and then chucks it 5 yards over Browns head....ARob was at the 5 yard line with NO ONE near him in the middle of the field and Stafford just doesn't even look at him"

Operative part of your sentence: "Stafford avoids a rusher."

I, too, wish he'd have seen AR. To my eyes he didn't have time to look, and threw what would not be an interception.

Again: O line breakdown causes less-than-superhuman performance from a QB. It happens.

Stafford did better than we might give him credit for until we look at the stat line: 300 + yards in the air, over 66% completions.

He got hit, again and again, and got up and kept throwing - even though he knew the hits would keep on a'comin'. Not many QB's could - or would - do that.

Brady, for one, would have shriveled like an orchid in a furnace and taken about fourteen curl-up-and-die in self-protection sacks and thrown another fourteen passes out of bounds prematurely to avoid the hits.

Stafford will take the punishment, risk a pick on a rushed throw that could turn the game around if caught, and get up and keep throwing.