David Garrard: Dolphins Owner Adds "More Fuel For Me"

[BAMAPHIN 22]

Dolphins Onwer Stephen Ross raised eyebrows on Monday when he speculated quaterback Matt Moore would get the nod over rookie Ryan Tannehill as the team's week 1 starter. Ross' candor was a surpise to many, likely most of all David Garrard, who believed he had a shot at the No. 1 spot when he signed with Miami in March. Read more: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000...-garrard-dolphins-owner-adds-more-fuel-for-me

 

[GCD960]

Hopefully when Garrard wins the job, Ross will realize that he doesn't have a good handle on these type of things which will hopefully lead to him remaining silent

 

[Dsteve]

garrad is obviously the more talented player. Too bad he won't have any weapons on offense here either. He's a pretty top tier game manager while moore is just a bum.

 

[BenchFiedler]

garrad is obviously the more talented player. Too bad he won't have any weapons on offense here either. He's a pretty top tier game manager while moore is just a bum.

What do you call Bush, Miller, Clay, Fasano, Bess, and a surprise receiver this year??? You really believe none or our 15 + receivers will step up to find at least 2 or 3 good ones???

 

[Killerphins]

Lighting a fire under the ass of the seemingly forgotten QB.

Ah the happy accident.

 

[Bumpus]

Meh ... Garrard is now fired up.

Color me excited.

 

[abNORMal]

For some reason I always pull for the underdog...

 

[Gsmack_42]

So why did NFL.com leave out the question for the 1st answer. What was the question if i had to guess, it was in some form or way about when his 1st round rookie QB was going to start.

 

[Vaark]

It'll be nice for a change that there will be a legitimate TC competition for the best performing QB to win it instead of being annointed the starter. Hey may the best QB win - although aside from health, there's really not that much difference between them:

Garrard:
39-37 (51.3% of his starts)for teams those years that went 64-62(50.8%)
vs.
Moore
13-12 (52.0%) for teams those years that went 23-41(38.5% winning).

I believe that their QBRs are within about 5pts of each others and both have a nice TD/Int ratio

So on one hand you can make the case that Garrard who has had a few nice years uplifted his team which may or may not have been decent but also can make the case all around that Moore has uplifted his definitely bad - mediocre teams.

We didn't end the last half of the season too badly with Moore; if Garrard can beat him out and proves an upgrade, then there's a good chance we'll improve on the high note we ended with.