Fresh from the WAD himself, yet another completely moronic argument:
Lay off
Grossman. He had a tough game. Doesn't change the fact that he is
sooooooooo much better than about 20 other quarterbacks in the NFL.Actually, for sh*ts and giggles, lets take a look at Rex's first year as a full time starter and compare it to some of the all time greats:
Rex: 3,200 yards, 54.6% completion percentage, 23 T.D.'s, 20 picks,15 wins and a Super Bowl loss;
Elway: 2,600 yards, 56.3% completion percentage, 18 T.D.'s, 15 picks,13 wins and a loss in the Divisional Round of the Playoffs;
Montana: 1,800 yards, 64.5% completion percentage, 15 T.D.'s, 9 picks,6 - 10 record;
Marino: 5,084 yards, 64.2% completion percentage, 48 T.D.'s, 17picks, and a Super Bowl loss;
Kelly: 3,593 yards, 59.4% completion percentage, 22 T.D.'s, 17 picks,and a 4-12 record;
Young: 2,282 yards, 53.7% completion percentage, 8 T.D.'s, 13 picks,and 2-14 record for the
Bucs.
So, let's break this down rationally: I have given you Rex's first year starting statistics and win/loss record compared with that of five First Ballot Hall of Fame quarterbacks. Of those five, he had more yards than3 of them (
Elway, Montana, and Young), A comparable completion percentage to two of them (
Elway & Young), More touchdowns than all of them except
Marino (by the way,
Marino's season was possibly
the greatest quarterbacking season in the history of the league), More picks than all of them (no doubt about it, turnovers have been his
Achilles heel), and he took his team as far as
Marino and further than any of the other four.
Okay, if that doesn't convince you that all this media horse sh*t about how bad
Grossman is is complete sh*t, take a look at his first year starting numbers against those of another First Ballot Hall of
Famer,
Favre: 3,227 yards, 64.1% completion percentage, 18 T.D.\'s, 13 picks,and a 9-7 record.
So, I just have to ask: Do you think
Elway, Montana,
Marino, Kelly,Young, or
Favre should have caught the type of crap
Grossman has caught this year? The answer, of course, is NO! Because, those guys came
up in an era where the quarterback was supposed to make plays and lead you to victory, not just stay out of the way and not screw up.
Grossman is a throw back to a better time, and had he been given the freedom to sling it around early and often last night, who knows how things would have turned out. So, in sum, I think it\'s ludicrous the crap people give
Grossman, and because of the way he plays the game, I love the guy,and I wish the media and all the people who take what the morons like Boomer
Esiason, Sterling Sharp, and Michael Irvin say as Gospel would take a minute to stop and think about who they are listening to.Numbers don't lie, and numbers tell you that this kid has a chance to be one of the all time greats.