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Spagnola: Getting To The QB Must Be One Of Highest Offseason Priorities
Friday, January 29, 2016 4:05 PM CST
By Mickey Spagnola
DallasCowboys.com Columnist
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...g-qb-must-be-one-highest-offseason-priorities
MOBILE, Ala. – What we learned from the next round of NFL playoffs, Volume III, heading toward next Sunday’s 50th Super Bowl while the only bowl synonymous with the Cowboys nearly 20 years to the day since last winning a Super Bowl is their staff relegated to merely coaching here in Saturday’s Senior Bowl:
Not only do you need a franchise quarterback, generating pressure on opposing quarterbacks breaks down even the best the NFL has to offer.
Go ask Tom Brady.
Go ask Carson Palmer.
Go ask Peyton Manning.
Yep, those guys, three of the NFL’s greybeards, three of the best the league has to offer, a threesome totaling 37 years of professional experience, they’ll tell you. Not one of them in last Sunday’s two conference championship games was able to average even a paltry 6-yards per passing attempt. Not one of them was able to complete better than 57 percent of his passes, and of all things, Tom Terrific, not even 50 percent (48).
And when it came to efficiency in these conference title games, good gosh, Palmer checked in at 41.3 and the indomitable Brady – we thought – was reduced to a deplorable 56.4 passer rating.
Then there was the reinforcement of Newton’s Law, this one, though Sir Cam Newton: Every quarterback in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
Right?
Why, the Arizona Cardinals couldn’t even knock the wide grin off his face, much less him down entirely more than once, the Carolina quarterback completing 68 percent of his passes, averaging 11.96 yards an attempt and finishing with a walloping 117.4 rating in the NFC game.
No wonder the Panthers defeated the Cardinals, 49-15.
No wonder, in reality, the only thing separating the victorious Denver Broncos in the AFC from the bewildered New England Patriots was a mystifying missed extra point by a kicker, Stephen Gostkowski’s first missed PAT in his stellar nine-year career leaving the Pats on the short end of a most modest 20-18 tally.
Newton was sacked only once in the NFC title game. He was hit just twice, enabling him to throw for 335 yards, with two touchdown passes while intercepted only once...
Friday, January 29, 2016 4:05 PM CST
By Mickey Spagnola
DallasCowboys.com Columnist
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...g-qb-must-be-one-highest-offseason-priorities
MOBILE, Ala. – What we learned from the next round of NFL playoffs, Volume III, heading toward next Sunday’s 50th Super Bowl while the only bowl synonymous with the Cowboys nearly 20 years to the day since last winning a Super Bowl is their staff relegated to merely coaching here in Saturday’s Senior Bowl:
Not only do you need a franchise quarterback, generating pressure on opposing quarterbacks breaks down even the best the NFL has to offer.
Go ask Tom Brady.
Go ask Carson Palmer.
Go ask Peyton Manning.
Yep, those guys, three of the NFL’s greybeards, three of the best the league has to offer, a threesome totaling 37 years of professional experience, they’ll tell you. Not one of them in last Sunday’s two conference championship games was able to average even a paltry 6-yards per passing attempt. Not one of them was able to complete better than 57 percent of his passes, and of all things, Tom Terrific, not even 50 percent (48).
And when it came to efficiency in these conference title games, good gosh, Palmer checked in at 41.3 and the indomitable Brady – we thought – was reduced to a deplorable 56.4 passer rating.
Then there was the reinforcement of Newton’s Law, this one, though Sir Cam Newton: Every quarterback in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
Right?
Why, the Arizona Cardinals couldn’t even knock the wide grin off his face, much less him down entirely more than once, the Carolina quarterback completing 68 percent of his passes, averaging 11.96 yards an attempt and finishing with a walloping 117.4 rating in the NFC game.
No wonder the Panthers defeated the Cardinals, 49-15.
No wonder, in reality, the only thing separating the victorious Denver Broncos in the AFC from the bewildered New England Patriots was a mystifying missed extra point by a kicker, Stephen Gostkowski’s first missed PAT in his stellar nine-year career leaving the Pats on the short end of a most modest 20-18 tally.
Newton was sacked only once in the NFC title game. He was hit just twice, enabling him to throw for 335 yards, with two touchdown passes while intercepted only once...
