Originally posted by brent
In '83 Marino was a Rookie and no where as good as he just one year later. Ditto for Duper. Fielder and DT will not make it though the season, mark this post. They are not NFL starters. Teams make changes all the time to jumo start their offense. Alot of people point to Jay's record as a starter, but please! You could have winning record as an NFL QB with our defense the last four seasons! P.S .........WTF
thats funny because when JF doesn't start miami has a winning % of .300, the defense was still playing when jay was hurt right?
Jay's longball has improved. he had a bunch of great passes in the pats game. the key is to continue. can he? let's find out.
wasn't Zack Thomas a 5th round pick? wasn't Terrell Davis a 5th round pick? wasn't Tom Brady a 6th round pick? wasn't Rod Smith undrafted?
don't tell me a player cannot be a starter. it takes effort and DT has shown he wants to be better. he's a standup guy and wants to be good.
Can Jay start elsewhere? being close to age 32, i don't think he'd get many nods. but he would be the best backup in the NFL no questions asked. he is a very good starter too. if you have noticed this season, only 2 of jay's picks have been 10 yards or under. which means he is getting picked with the deepball. does he needs to improve? yes he does. has any of those picks hurt us? no...
explain fiedlers 108QB rating in his first 6 starts last season? it was because the offense was all out. now we're keeping it bottled up, until November/december so we don't have a collapse.
the bottom line is, if griese starts it will be ONLY due to health reasons. i don't trust griese against the colts. he's not good enough at this point to beat them (no physically, but he hasn't been with the offense very long... 3 weeks).
Fiedler gets the nod, i'm pretty sure. and if you don't like it, to bad... theres nothing you or i can do about it.
Wannstedt's job is on the line this season. the best man will play, theres no question about it.