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kartr said:
Once again the bottom line is in order to win you need to be able to count on your QB NOT going AWOL during a playoff run, especially when your starter has had to be rushed back from a serious injury. Which of course raises a whole new question - if a rhetorical one - why was Pennington allowed to even throw late last year if not for the lack of faith the CS had in either Quincy's game, ability to stay clear headed, or both?
Ray Lewis is a poor example of unreliability. He'd be the first guy I knew I could depend on on game day. 'Warts' come with the territory, but QBs abandoning their teams during the playoffs have to rank with the mountainous ones, not the molehillish. There is also degree of substance abuse to consider, and all signs point to the Mother of All Monkeys sitting astride Quincy's back.
Has it ever occured to you it is not even in QC's interest to be under the pressure of NFL football right now? That not playing this year, or next, or even retiring for good, might be the best thing that could happen to the man, simply because the pressure fuels his need to 'escape'?
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Horrific by your lights maybe, but a recovering Pennington backed by a former starter in Fiedler did not constitute a particularly scary situation a month, or even two weeks ago. The Ravens too were felled by injury to their starter. And despite what anyone thinks of Boller, Billick was giving him another year to prove himself, and Wright as a backup makes a lot more sense than Carter
as he has far less baggage.
Were I Nick Saban, the freaking LAST thought I would entertain as a rookie HC
would be briging in another famous drug/head case, when I had my own much more talented one to rehabilitate in Ricky.
Chicago has suffered an endless whirlwind of years w/o a viable QB, but again, they started the season with Grossman. Lovey Smith is smart enough to know you don't add a drug problem to an already sticky mix. You can be forgiven a Hutch not working out, but what HC with Smith's team talent level has time for Carter's potential nonsense..which is suspension close down the pike? Big help he'd be.
You don't seem to get that taking chances based on talent and miscalculating is something all coaches can survive at one time or another, but playing Russian Roullete with AWOLers is something neither press nor fan will forgive. I also doubt Q is any longer looked at by the players as the victim he MAY have been considered after he was released in Dallas. Not after what he pulled in NY.
That cry falls on deaf ears here because many of us, myself included, gave Carter every benefit of the doubt, only to discover later he didn't deserve it.
Q probably wouldn't have done much worse than Vinny in the light of the JJ and Glenn injuries last year, and of course, the QB's best friend (his D) that he had in 03, wouldn't have been around to carry him in 04, but Bledsoe is so superior a quarterback, even with his flaws, that the issue is entirely beggered now.
