Have some faith in Culpepper

[dolfannjb]

Overall I thought Culpepper had a solid game. If you look at the highlights you'll see that the game was lost in the 4th quarter when the Steelers Te scored on a big td and then Polamalu and Porter had INTs but on both of the interceptions the players reacted well to the ball and covered big zones. The Porter one looked real bad but thats because when C-Pepp originally was looking at the coverage Porter was lined up as a defensive end and dropped back into zone coverage. Another quarterback that has problems like this is Peyton Manning against the Patriots and I know people hate to criticize him. The only other negative I saw is on some of his short curl routes he threw them low because it didn't look like he was putting everything into it.
Positives of his game were the effortless 30-50 yard passing plays and reading pre-play coverage. Anytime a steeler cb would be playing off of a receiver he would throw them a quick screen for 5-7 yards. He also was good in getting rid of the ball when he knew where they were coming from. Not only that but where they came from he tended to throw there and there was usually some daylight. We have ourselves a solid quarterback that can make a lot of plays others can't.

 

[Stitches]

I thought he played an ok game, not good, but not bad. I'm not going to say he was terrible because of two passes, one of which was just an excellent play by the defender.

 

[Blurch]

No, believe me, I know from 7 years of experience...you don't want to have any faith in Chokepepper. He has a very fragile ego, and confidence level.
Now he's scared after last night. It's only going to get worse.

 

[DoggPhin]

... and then Polamalu and Porter had INTs but on both of the interceptions the players reacted well to the ball and covered big zones. The Porter one looked real bad but thats because when C-Pepp originally was looking at the coverage Porter was lined up as a defensive end and dropped back into zone coverage...

But.. But.. But..

Stop making excuses. C-Pepp made a terrible decision and in PART - cost us the game. No he did not single handedly lose this game, we had problems in the Secondary as you mention.

But Daunte's PICK was not the result of what Porter did - LB's do this all the time. If Daunte cannot adjust to a LB changing alignment then he's not a very good NFL QB. Let's just admit he made a bad mistake in crunch time. It happens ....

Thanks alot, "Daunte Feeley"

 

[dolfannjb]

I'm sure Culpepper isn't the only quarterback that makes bad reads on defensive coverage every now and then. What we failed to do to get us to that point was establish a running game to keep those situations from happening. Consistent offenses control the battle at the line and we couldn't. Our pass protection was decent but we weren't tough enough upfront to run good.