Originally posted by minus
Downfield you mean 20 yards passes?What consistency have I seen other than one game against a bad defense.
1-10 on third down is consistency? Please.
Uhhhh...Greise has connected a lot more consistently on our shots downfield (ie McMicheal, Chambers, Lee today; albiet they were "20 yard passes" but thats way more consistency than Fiedler has ever shown on his 20+ yard passes).
1 for 10 on third down is not all on him. Because of our horrendous O-line play, our mindboggling inability to run the ball and stupid penalties, we did not get many managable third downs. In fact, we had only one 3rd down opportunity in which we were less than six yards away, as opposed to 3 that we were more than 15 yards away and 2 more that we were 10 or more yards away.
Either way, I have been a Fiedler supporter for a long time but I haven't seen him put together 2 good games like this in a WHILE. And we have played some really bad defenses over the last 3+ years. The two points in the game that really tipified the difference in the two QBs:
1)The ball to McMicheal. Fiedler has overthrown this type of throw all year. To finally connect on a play like that got me excited.
2) The 4 play scoring drive. Haven't seen a drive like that out of this team in AGES. We need drives like that from time to time instead of constantly having to grind out 10-14 play drives.
Lastly, I'm tired of all this blaming Brian BS. Do you guys seriously think that Fiedler would not have fumbled those balls? In fact he has done it atleast once this year in the Giants game (not a knock on Fiedler or any QB for that matter, as a QB you can only account for what's in front of you, it's the O-Lines responsiblity to protect your blindside; thats why LT is the most important position on the O-Line) and he also fumbled on a much easier hit that was right in front of him in the Jets game. Right now, Brian has played the best out of the two and unless your QB coming off of injury is clearly your better QB (which in this case he has not been), in this situation you play the hot hand.