TunaFan33 said:
It's amazing how everyone here threw stones at Flo over the last year.
It's amazing how everyone here started celebrating with glee when he went down for the year.
It's amazing how everyone here keeps over-looking his loss. No-no OL is perfect. But without a decent blind-sided tackle, the entire line WILL be crippled.
The problem is Tuna that a lot of the pressure comes right up the middle when Drew is QB'ing because he has no lateral movement when he drops back. Where he plants his feet is usually where he stays. This not only makes the problem of not having Flo available greater, it also makes everyone's job that much harder to perform. It also makes the job of the rushing defense to rush him because he isn't even going to side step anyone.
The bottom line is this. Drew is what he is (as Summerisfunner made quite clear earlier). Teams know that. We all know that. The only option that will get more production out of Drew is to protect him at all cost because he brings nothing else but his arm to the table. Drew responds to pressure like a rookie and if you hit him a couple of times he will start with the River Dance in one spot and start throwing erratic passes. This is not new. The whole league knows this as well. This is why he was dropped for a rookie in Buffalo and for a youngster in NE. who is now known as a
CLUTCH QB. Clutch is something that
over his career Drew has never been known as. Sure he's had clutch moments but so has Hutch in his short stay with the Boys as well as QC and any other QB.
A season is not told in the first 6 games of a season for the most part. The season starts to take shape once all teams have revealed their strategies to the league. Teams are able to better plan for the opponents which means that the coaching staff and the players have to be able to adjust. The great coaches and players can adjust in adverse situations. Unfortunately, Drew just hasn't been able to adapt and overcome when teams make adjustments on him.
Numbers aside, we who watch the game and not the stats understand what it is we are seeing.
He is what he is.