Bledsoe's Blunders have stabbed this team in the heart...

[sillycon]

He is what he is... an immobile qb who gets rattled by pressure. He was great earlier in the year when the line was protecting fairly well. Now that the o-line is imploding, all of Bledsoe's weaknesses are exposed... Happy feet, inaccurate throws, perceiving pressure when there isn't followed by poor decision making. Drew is a very good qb when given protection (which I think can be said for many qb's). However, that isn't there so now he's a pretty bad qb. We're stuck with him and we can only pray the o-line miraculously steps up...

 

[Novacek84]

Bledsoe is an upgrade over what we've had the last couple of years no doubt.

But it is painfully obvious we will be nothing but an "also-ran" as long as Bledsoe is our QB. He is what he is and he will never improve his obvious weaknesses.

The single most disappointing thing about our franchise to me over the last several years is our total inability to draft and develop a young, talented QB that this franchise can build upon.

Check out the playoffs next month and you will once again see that the teams with good young signal callers are the best teams in the league. See Indy, Cincy, Pittsburgh, New England, Jacksonville, NY Giants, etc. It happens year after year after year after year...

Boy is this post on the money. This is exactly what I was thinking watching the game yesterday. I said to myself, this team will never be a champion with Bledsoe. Playoff team- yes, contender- yes; but not championship caliber. That's why the decision to not play Henson at the end of last season after we were out of it is unacceptable. Henson may or may not be the answer but Parcells blew a perfect opportunity to find out. Now I think that opportunity will never be revisited now that Bledsoe is here for at least one more year. And unless Parcells leaves us with a future QB to build around, that will be his biggest failure as the head coach of this team, there's no other way to say it.

 

[Novacek84]

It's so nice to know there are so many great fans ready to toss Bledsoe out the door after a bad game. Since Manning played worse I guess he should go too? If someone told me at the beginning of the year that going into week 13 Bledsoe would be the #2 rated QB in the NFC I would have jumped up and down. Yes he had a bad game and has had some bad picks this year. He has also made plenty of big plays this year. We are 7-5 and in the playoff race. Most experts thought we'd be a .500 team or worse this year with all the young guys on D. Bledsoe is not our problem. As a lot of smart people have already pointed out, our current woes can be pointed drirectly to our porous line play.

Bledsoe isn't the problem but if you've watched him blow hot and cold the last five years he doesn't appear to be the ultimate solution either. (And don't get me wrong, I think he was the best way to go this year for us to compete) He's been adequate, but adequate doesn't get you to Super Bowls. Check the history of that game, Trent Dilfer aside.

 

[mr.jameswoods]

I love these posts. When Bledsoe plays well, the Bledsoe supporters will post threads saying how great he is and how stupid you were for doubting him. Now that he is playing bad, you have his critics on here.

What would be cool is if the critics and the supporters would have the balls to post their opinions at the same time. For example, where are the Bledsoe supporters now? And where were the Bledsoe critics a month ago?

I don't care what your opinion is but if you lack the courage to post your opinion when it's not popular then you don't have much credibility as far as I'm concerned.

I know there are Bledsoe supporters out there; it's time to speak up

 

[cobra]

God. If we only had Quincy, we'd be undefeated for sure.

 

[cobra]

We had somebody that could move around in Quincy Carter, a playoff Quarterback I might add... Quincy was a winner

This guy sounds great. I forgot, which Playoff team is he leading this year?

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I love these posts. When Bledsoe plays well, the Bledsoe supporters will post threads saying how great he is and how stupid you were for doubting him. Now that he is playing bad, you have his critics on here.

What would be cool is if the critics and the supporters would have the balls to post their opinions at the same time. For example, where are the Bledsoe supporters now? And where were the Bledsoe critics a month ago?

I don't care what your opinion is but if you lack the courage to post your opinion when it's not popular then you don't have much credibility as far as I'm concerned.

I know there are Bledsoe supporters out there; it's time to speak up

James, all we got is Quincy supporters today. I guess that's the best we can do in a pinch.

 

[Maikeru-sama]

- Horrendous, vomit inducing Game Losing Pick Against Seattle that made ZERO sense to throw the Football - the most asinine play call and pass I've seen in years.

- Horrendous , vomit inducing , Uncalled for Pick placed into Champ Bailey's chest for 6 ...Disgusting - Disgraceful.

- Slow - lumbering , stupified missed handoff to JJ - I watched the replay and Drew never looked back to realize Clancy jumped the snap - if he had he gets it off. Drew is never aware of his surroundings - He gets locked in and cannot improvise - I.E. Witten was wide open on the sideline with under a minute to play and he took a sack - I.E. 3 and 1 playaction terrible toss to Glenn - Sean Ryan was wide open with 20 -40 yds to gain ...


Drew Bledsoe is a joke...he's a lumbering stiff...He has ZERO intensity, I bet he woke up today and watched Good Morning America and didn't think twice about the loss.

We need a Competitor at the position we need a guy who can move a bit when things break down.

This is the real Bledsoe

I can think of alot more reasons why this team is losing before I even get to Drew Bledsoe.

How in the hell can you throw decent passes when you have defenders in the backfield as soon as you snap the ball.

Bill Parcells has whiffed too many times on the Offensive Line. This is the only position that has not progressed since he has been here (although some would argue QB is one too).

- Mike G.

 

[Mash]

When Carter made blunders like these....we called for his head.....and u can say he had a worse OL....worse WR and a pathetic RB.....

Bledsoe still makes rookie mistakes....misses open WR's as much as anyone we have had since Aikman and doesn't know how to receive a snap (like Carter) and fumbles as much as Hutch.

But he does throw a pretty ball when he has all day back there...

Teams will continually blitz us up the middle.....Bledsoe will not make them pay....and Bill will continue to try to establish the run up the middle.....

 

[cobra]

misses open WR's as much as anyone we have had since Aikman and doesn't know how to receive a snap (like Carter) and fumbles as much as Hutch.

Do you have any data to back up this ignorant drivel?

 

[NJCowboy]

Do you have any data to back up this ignorant drivel?

That may be a reach - but he did miss guys all over the field yesterday ...and Drew is a Tunnel Vision - Lockon passer - he's got one target and sticks with it. That killed us yesterday.

 

[Ashwynn]

No he hasn't. It's that he is terrible against any team that plays half-way decent defense. If the other team can rush the passer or stop the run, he's terrible, otherwise he's great.

Maybe thats because our line can handle a subpar defense decently, but you throw in a strahan and yumiyori due and guess what, he no longer has time to read the D, Jones has no holes to run through. Barbers hitting the D linemen 2 lines behind the line of scrimage. Maybe its the Defense we face that makes Bledsoe look not so good. Why, because of the Olines play. Man you guys just dont get it do you. Aikman, Manning, Brady or You would look like Bledsoe back there. Bledsoes doing the best he can with what hes got, only problem is hes got a big ole bag of nothing for protection. You couldn't do anything with the time hes got. How do you expect Bledsoe to do anything. Grow up and look at the big picture and quit whinning about one of the strengths of the team. When you do and see that Bledsoes gotten 7 wins with that big ole bag of nothing, maybe then you will understand the concept of TEAM sports. Your only as strong as your weakest link. Guess what that is. Its not Bledsoe.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Maybe thats because our line can handle a subpar defense decently, but you throw in a strahan and yumiyori due and guess what, he no longer has time to read the D, Jones has no holes to run through. Barbers hitting the D linemen 2 lines behind the line of scrimage. Maybe its the Defense we face that makes Bledsoe look not so good. Why, because of the Olines play. Man you guys just dont get it do you. Aikman, Manning, Brady or You would look like Bledsoe back there. Bledsoes doing the best he can with what hes got, only problem is hes got a big ole bag of nothing for protection. You couldn't do anything with the time hes got. How do you expect Bledsoe to do anything. Grow up and look at the big picture and quit whinning about one of the strengths of the team. When you do and see that Bledsoes gotten 7 wins with that big ole bag of nothing, maybe then you will understand the concept of TEAM sports. Your only as strong as your weakest link. Guess what that is. Its not Bledsoe.

Perhaps it's not us who fails to get it. I don't dispute a great deal of the content here. However, it does seem to me that all of these points were brought up before we ever signed Bledsoe as reasons to look else where. I'm not saying Bledsoe is a bad QB. I'm saying he's limited. If you can't protect him, how are you going to make him succesful?

At the begining of the year, we had Adams (coming off a sub par year in 04) at RT, Allen (coming off a sub par year in 04) at RG, Johnson (1 year experience) at C, Marco Rivera (coming off back surgery) and Jacob Rogers (2nd year man coming off Shoulder Surgery) at RT. I look at this lineup and I have a very hard time rationalizing why we would think we could be succesful protecting a player like Bledsoe. Perhaps it's just me.

 

[Ashwynn]

Perhaps it's not us who fails to get it. I don't dispute a great deal of the content here. However, it does seem to me that all of these points were brought up before we ever signed Bledsoe as reasons to look else where. I'm not saying Bledsoe is a bad QB. I'm saying he's limited. If you can't protect him, how are you going to make him succesful?

At the begining of the year, we had Adams (coming off a sub par year in 04) at RT, Allen (coming off a sub par year in 04) at RG, Johnson (1 year experience) at C, Marco Rivera (coming off back surgery) and Jacob Rogers (2nd year man coming off Shoulder Surgery) at RT. I look at this lineup and I have a very hard time rationalizing why we would think we could be succesful protecting a player like Bledsoe. Perhaps it's just me.

Maybe thats part of the plan. piecemeal this unit together through this year and hit the FA market and draft heavy. We could have spent 150 million this offseason and fixed both the O and D line, but Ithink they have a long term plan in effect and it calls for us to get by with what we have till we can address it.

Remember when Flo was here we were doing decent. His loss hurt the line. You can't anticipate injuries and you can't call off the game cause of them, but without that injury we would not be talking about how bad Bledsoe is. When Flo was here we were signing his praises as he was the top rated passer in the league and all that. Whats changed? Same ole Bledsoe. Flos gone and we can not help the young tackle, cause we have two young tackles we have to help now. Against lesser oponents we can get by. but a stout Defense eats our lunch and gets to our QB and shuts down our running game.

Its not rocket science. one unit impacts another unit. If the runner trips over the 30 yard line, our receivers get doubled and the QB looks like crap cause he cant complete as many any more. If the D line cant get to the QB, our secondary looks like crap. We addressed that and gues what. Newmans playing at a all pro level again. Henry and Glenn helped. But that line made the difference. Same with our Oline. I am telling you Bledsoes good enough to do the job, smart enough to know what that job is. He just cant do it alone.

 

[conner01]

so we bring back qc, bledsoe sux and qc was the man. why we ever got rid of that pro bowler i just don't understand. the whole league is missing his talent and he';s home watching his crack pipe so we could sign him

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Maybe thats part of the plan. piecemeal this unit together through this year and hit the FA market and draft heavy. We could have spent 150 million this offseason and fixed both the O and D line, but Ithink they have a long term plan in effect and it calls for us to get by with what we have till we can address it.

Remember when Flo was here we were doing decent. His loss hurt the line. You can't anticipate injuries and you can't call off the game cause of them, but without that injury we would not be talking about how bad Bledsoe is. When Flo was here we were signing his praises as he was the top rated passer in the league and all that. Whats changed? Same ole Bledsoe. Flos gone and we can not help the young tackle, cause we have two young tackles we have to help now. Against lesser oponents we can get by. but a stout Defense eats our lunch and gets to our QB and shuts down our running game.

Its not rocket science. one unit impacts another unit. If the runner trips over the 30 yard line, our receivers get doubled and the QB looks like crap cause he cant complete as many any more. If the D line cant get to the QB, our secondary looks like crap. We addressed that and gues what. Newmans playing at a all pro level again. Henry and Glenn helped. But that line made the difference. Same with our Oline. I am telling you Bledsoes good enough to do the job, smart enough to know what that job is. He just cant do it alone.

I don't dispute for one moment the fact that there's a plan. I also don't dispute the fact that we brought in Bledsoe because he has experience and he was cheap. The point here is that while he may be experienced, he's not what you'd hope for at the position. I new we would experience the problems we are experiencing right now, before the season ever started. Not because I'm overly intelligent but because you can see that many things had to work out for us to be a contender this year. I would go so far as to say that we will face the same issues, on the OL, next year. Is Bledsoe the guy? I don't know. In fact, nobody does. Right now, it doesn't look that way but things can change. Having said that, you can't really fault anybody for feeling like we've missed the boat at QB. We have not taken opportunities to bring in a young QB when presented. To compound this, we have elected to take chances on long shots or players who are limited in there abilities from age to over all skill level. The grief being thrown out over the QB situation is understandable IMO.

 

[NJCowboy]

How can there be a plan when the QB is 34 and the WR tandem is the oldest in Football??

 

[mr.jameswoods]

James, all we got is Quincy supporters today. I guess that's the best we can do in a pinch.

ABQ

I give you props because you and Michael Winnicki were those that were not ready to annoint Bledsoe as the savior of this franchise a month ago when a lot of people kept raving about his #1 QB rating in the NFC.

But you also loved Alex Smith so I have to give you a hard time about that especially when we warned you that he was overrated due to the weak competition he faced in college.

 

[mr.jameswoods]

no QB is gonna succeed behind the kinda effort the O-line is giving lately.

we knew mobility wasn't Bledsoe's strength when he was signed and we ALL agreed he'd have to have decent protection to have any chance. for a while he got it and was succeeding - almost spectacularly. now the protection has vaporized and he is failing - along with the rest of the offense.

i know what i've seen this year and i wasn't one of bledsoe's initial supporters. but he played well enough to win me over. give him any protection and he will win games for you. he's far less the problem than the O-line. ask julius jones. ask marion barber. ask jason witten - one of the league's best weapons and who is constantly held in to babysit a porous line (kinda like roy was asked to babysit a porous secondary last season - preventing one of our best players from doing what he does best and lessening his ability to positively impact the game).

by now, even the O-line itself is aware they suck.

You can't always excuse Bledsoe's poor play on our pass protection. There were many times yesterday in which he had time to throw and he just made a poor decision. People forget that one of Bledsoe's weaknesses is that he eyes receivers. When you do this you are bound to throw a couple of easy interceptions, which was evident by his second INT he threw.

 

[Famous Star]

We need to have realistic expectations of Drew Bledsoe. Nowhere is his history has he proved he can win a big game...nowhere.....why would we think his tenure here would be different.

As much as I love the Tuna, his inflexible ways and belief in his players is not going to yield us a world championship. Let's come to grips with this and understand we will be a stronger defensive team, but his pedestrian ball control offense will never, never win in todays NFL.