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PenWing said:
I don't know about conscious. But there is no second effort by anyone out there. And that says a lot about something. Some people say it's the quarterback, some say it's the coach. I only know what happened in New England. The same team that didn't play for Bledsoe won it all for Brady.



Whoah, who said New England didn't play for Bledsoe? Bledsoe didn't lose his job because his team quit on him. He lost it because he got hurt and Brady took over.

Drew Bledsoe went to three Pro-Bowls as a Patriot, took the team team to a Super Bowl in '96, and still owns most of the franchise passing record. Also, most people forget that it was Bledsoe that came in during the fourth quarter of the AFC Championship game against Pittsburgh(after Brady got hurt) in 2001 and engineered the game-winning drive. Without Bledsoe, Brady doesn't get that first ring. So, I'm definitely not seeing why or how his team would quit on him.

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There is another problem with this team. Mooch wants to coach the west coast offense. The problem is, this team isn't built for it. This team is built to send the ball down field on long passes. It's not built to run. Maybe if the offensive line knew that it only had to make a wall and not a hole, maybe then they would keep the pressure off and allow Harrington to hit his recievers thirty yards down the field. The system being coached doesn't fit the players on the team. That also shows.



The Lions have an excellent running back(Jones), one of the top pass-catching tight ends in football(Pollard), and tall, matchup receivers(Williams, Rogers, Williams). From a skill position standpoint, they absolutely have the parts to run a west-coast offense.

They can throw the ball downfield, too. It's not like Bill Walsh's 49er teams never threw deep passes.

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My opinion? For the next game bench Harrington and see if the rookie can play Mooch's system any better. If not, fire Mooch, and bring in someone who can inspire this team and coach to play the style of football it was drafted to play. Enough is enough already.



I don't think it's going to be any better with Dan Orlovsky in there, especially since Orlovsky is more of a classic tall, immobile dropback QB. It may just be "wait for Jeff Garcia to get healthy" time in Detroit.

And if that fails, it'll be "pray for Matt Leinart" time.

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But how do you explain Manning's performance?



Poor weather conditions, a great opposing defense and an even better opposing coach.

It wasn't Brady's best game, either. He had the same number of passing yards as Corey Dillon had rushing yards(144).

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He's the best regular season quarterback of all time



He's a pretty good postseason QB, too. In the three games he's played against teams other than New England the last two years, he's completed 71 of 89 passes(that's an 80% completion rate) for 1138 yards and 12 TD's(or 379 yards and 4 TD's per game), with only 1 interception.

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but he has yet to show that something special that makes Brady a champion.



You'd have a hard time convincing me that if it had been Manning wearing a Patriots uniform these last four years he wouldn't have three rings.

MisterJLA is RACKing awesome.