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Stop Blaming Gus!!

Superself said:
Gus is what he is people. We all know this. How long have you known that Gus simply is NOT a QB you can rely on for crucial yardage??

How many times do you have to see him miss an open receiver before you realize that in those situations you do NOT PUT THE DAMN BALL IN HIS HANDS??!!!!

Its like gambling...do you take the easy money or keep going for the long odds that hit once every other month??

Scott Linehan and his playcalling is the reason we lost this game. Not Gus. We KNOW Gus is not the type of QB to make those plays....look at his recent history here, he has NOT made those kind of plays when we needed them most, so WHY ATTEMPT IT?

Your running backs are averaging 5+ yards a carry. A blind man could see that we were gashing their defensive front 7-8-9 men for 5+ yards almost every carry! Why not use that until it doesn't work anymore?

Fire Scott Linehan and this offense will improve.
Getting rid of Gus should be secondary because Scott will ruin any QB that isn't top 5!!
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I agree that the pass call inside the 10 yardline with 3rd and 2 was extremely puzzling. Ronnie and Ricky were almost consistently picking up 4 or 5 yards every time they touched the ball. The problem I have with Linehan is that he likes to roll the dice a little too much. Twice today we had short yardage situations where we didn't go with the high percentage conversion play and went with either razzle dazzle or unconventional plays. The first was the double reverse to Chambers that lost about 15 yards. The second was the pass on 3rd and 2 that sealed our fate.

However I think it's premature to talk about dumping Linehan. After the Denver game people were proclaiming Linehan as a genius. If we get a good quarterback in here next year along with a left tackle and a right guard, this offense could be really good.
 
endorPHINS72 said:
I agree that the pass call inside the 10 yardline with 3rd and 2 was extremely puzzling. Ronnie and Ricky were almost consistently picking up 4 or 5 yards every time they touched the ball. The problem I have with Linehan is that he likes to roll the dice a little too much. Twice today we had short yardage situations where we didn't go with the high percentage conversion play and went with either razzle dazzle or unconventional plays. The first was the double reverse to Chambers that lost about 15 yards. The second was the pass on 3rd and 2 that sealed our fate.

However I think it's premature to talk about dumping Linehan. After the Denver game people were proclaiming Linehan as a genius. If we get a good quarterback in here next year along with a left tackle and a right guard, this offense could be really good.
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One problem....get your QB...LT and RG....and Linehan still calls those high school plays....you gain nothing.
 
fishypete said:
One problem....get your QB...LT and RG....and Linehan still calls those high school plays....you gain nothing.
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Exactly FP!!

That is the point I have been trying to hammer in!! Linehan has called the same type of plays when at Minnesota. He does not change his philosophy to match his players!!
 
I hope Gus gets hurt in practice this week. He hurts our chances at winning the game. I cant believe people are still defending this crappy QB.

send him and linehan back to minnesota. let them suck up there. im sick of both of them.
 
death7star said:
I hope Gus gets hurt in practice this week. He hurts our chances at winning the game. I cant believe people are still defending this crappy QB.

send him and linehan back to minnesota. let them suck up there. im sick of both of them.
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:lol: yeah me too!
 
Superself said:
Gus is what he is people. We all know this. How long have you known that Gus simply is NOT a QB you can rely on for crucial yardage??
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so basically, Gus sucks and therefore, we shouldn't blame him??

yea, i agree, Linehan is horrible, but Gus can still take some blame. He is, after all, and NFL PLAYER. he should have known better than to throw that last pass where he did. and that pass that he threw to Brown 7 yards behind the LOS.....what was that? luckily brown got by 2 guys and we only lost 3 yards on that play.

Gus is a moron. if i remember correctly, it was him that said something in the preseason like: "I have always felt that i was a starting QB." yea, right.....

anyways, i agree that Linehan is bad, but we can't just excuse Gus' stupidity by saying "we knew he was bad so we can't blame him."
 
I'm over blaming Gus.
He's just not that good or talented. You can't blame someone for putting it all out there if that's all they can give. He is suited to the back up role I think.

I'm blaming today's loss on un-sustained drives and McMichael's dropped touchdown, hit him in the hands, he is a highly paid TE, he should make those catches. Period.

Although saying that I think we were lucky to be in the game to begin with, the Falcons outplayed us a lot today just like we outplayed the Saints. We were lucky to be within range come the 4th quarter.
 
KuD said:
Stop defending Gus. He's a professional football player. He should be able to make a play every now and then. He didn't create one big play for this team all day. That is downright pathetic. In 8 games he had maybe one decent outing in the opener. Since then he's been a terrible QB, just terrible. Other than Feeley, I don't think there's been a worse starter here. Unless you count Ray Lucas. Even Fiedler made a play every now and then. Gus Frerotte is a joke, and it makes me sick to see anyone defend him.

Sure, Linehan is the one you'd point the finger at for this ONE loss. But for Miami's woes on offense this year. You're damn right i'm gonna blame Gus Frerotte.
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Feeley had more then one decent outing, he also made more plays then Gus. Of course, he also made more negative plays, but hey there has to be a tradeoff. At least Feeley showed he could showup somewhat for more then just 1 out of 8 games like Gus.

Gus was handed the job, there was no real competition. It was his from the moment they signed him. Heck right now I would rather see Sage or Lemon, they can't do much worse.
 
dominizzo said:
id have to say Holcomb
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Id rather have Holcomb playing for us than Gus. Gus is the worst one with the exception of Vinny Testerverde and thats only because Vinny is 80 years old.
 
Superself said:
Gus is what he is people. We all know this. How long have you known that Gus simply is NOT a QB you can rely on for crucial yardage??

How many times do you have to see him miss an open receiver before you realize that in those situations you do NOT PUT THE DAMN BALL IN HIS HANDS??!!!!

Its like gambling...do you take the easy money or keep going for the long odds that hit once every other month??

Scott Linehan and his playcalling is the reason we lost this game. Not Gus. We KNOW Gus is not the type of QB to make those plays....look at his recent history here, he has NOT made those kind of plays when we needed them most, so WHY ATTEMPT IT?

Your running backs are averaging 5+ yards a carry. A blind man could see that we were gashing their defensive front 7-8-9 men for 5+ yards almost every carry! Why not use that until it doesn't work anymore?

Fire Scott Linehan and this offense will improve.
Getting rid of Gus should be secondary because Scott will ruin any QB that isn't top 5!!
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You have to be able to put the ball in your QB's hands when the game is on the line, that is just ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

You start handcuffing the QB and defenses will stack the line and you won't run for anything.

What we need is a better quarterback not a new OC.
 
BlueFin said:
You have to be able to put the ball in your QB's hands when the game is on the line, that is just ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

You start handcuffing the QB and defenses will stack the line and you won't run for anything.

What we need is a better quarterback not a new OC.
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Exactly!
 
Superself said:
Gus is what he is people. We all know this. How long have you known that Gus simply is NOT a QB you can rely on for crucial yardage??

How many times do you have to see him miss an open receiver before you realize that in those situations you do NOT PUT THE DAMN BALL IN HIS HANDS??!!!!

Its like gambling...do you take the easy money or keep going for the long odds that hit once every other month??

Scott Linehan and his playcalling is the reason we lost this game. Not Gus. We KNOW Gus is not the type of QB to make those plays....look at his recent history here, he has NOT made those kind of plays when we needed them most, so WHY ATTEMPT IT?

Your running backs are averaging 5+ yards a carry. A blind man could see that we were gashing their defensive front 7-8-9 men for 5+ yards almost every carry! Why not use that until it doesn't work anymore?

Fire Scott Linehan and this offense will improve.
Getting rid of Gus should be secondary because Scott will ruin any QB that isn't top 5!!
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All Gus had to do was throw it away!! This loss was all on GUS, obviously they just expect him to be able to make the easy play and he can't! He's not a manager, he blew every opportunity and locked onto targets!

THIS IS ALL ON GUS!!
 
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