Delhomme

Favre threw 6 picks vs STL in 2000. He recovered. And I'd say Jake's mental makeup is more like Favre's than Gannon's.

 

2008 - Panthers avg 349.7 ypg and 25.9ppg
2007 - Panthers avg 284.9 ypg and 16.7ppg
2006 - Panthers avg 307.7 ypg and 16.9ppg
2005 - Panthers avg 309.4 ypg and 24.4ppg

Yep....production was DOWN....

 

Well then you just answered your own question. 12-4. Looks like he can recover.

 

we've found the Kool Aid drinkers

 

Jake had the #2 running game in the league. Play action alone should have put him in the top 10. He sucks.

 

as well as a top 5 WR and a solid posession guy

 

Really, because I see Tom Brady and Peyton Manning at the top of those rankings every year and those guy know a little about winning games.

You're certainly as dumb as ***** ******.

 

Go start a bar fight and then drunk dial HollyB, because you're just embarrassing yourself by trying to legitimately talk football.


PP:
He obviously meant in the passing game.

 

I know it's what he probably meant, but he didn't say that. So I was simply responding to exactly what he wrote, and making a point in the process.

We can argue if it was in spite of Jake, or if Jake was a part of it, but the bottom line was our offensive production was not a consistent problem. Our lack of defensive production was.

If Jake comes back next year, and we average 350 ypg, 150 of them rushing and 200 passing, and put up 26ppg.....AND shore up the D, we will be a contender.

Using our limited resources (draft picks and cap room) to solidify our D is a quicker avenue to improvement than spending it all on bringing in a QB that may or may not be better than Jake.

So we can bitch and moan about Jake's turds he lays every once in while, or accept the fact that as it is, we have a pretty dang good offense, and focus on rebuilding the D.

 

passing game or running game - we know that inside the 3, we were probably going to run (and should). In most years, those would more likely be passing downs. That we had a bunch of long passing plays fall inside the ten and ran it in would diminish the TDs (as would some of the throws that could've been caught in stride that weren't accurate enough to go the distance but able to be completed).

footballoutsiders.com's play by play analysis of our passing game put Jake 13th best in the league. While it really blows he personally kept us from having a chance at winning, coming off the surgery he had it's still better than I figured he'd be. I don't think this week was a matter of arm, or at least arm strength. If there are issues with him compensating physically for the surgery, I wouldn't know, but it's not a good excuse. He has the ability to make the deep throws, and the outs, and it seems more inconsistency than inability.