Slick Rick wrote:
Okay, so if you're going to question whether we know what Teddy can do based off of (lol) one performance that included, what, two pass attempts? Yeah, well what do we make of Bradford's poor performance against Chicago where Case Keenum came in and basically snatched the starting job right out of his hands by doing what Sam couldn't do which is drive the ball on Chicago's fairly mediocre defense. What do we make of Keenum himself being relatively inconsistent throughout his career and having his worst performance in the biggest game of his career against Philly. Finally, there's Kirk, who I don't believe has ever even played in a postseason game, let alone won one.
I'm not saying that Bridgewater is the solution, I think that's way too conservative, and I'd bet Spielman is a little bit more aggressive than that now that we're in a positions where we know what we have and that we're at our window of opportunity where we could be competing for Super Bowls right now. At the same time, he's always been viable and I don't think the Vikings would be talking about bringing him back if they thought he was a significant injury risk or that his injury was going to somehow prevent him from playing. It feels like they want him to come back and be a good insurance policy in case Keenum (intended), Cousins, Bradford or whoever does get hurt that we'll have someone who's fairly reliable to back them up.
Out of what I posted, all you saw was the stuff about the Cincy game?
I was using the "happy feet" thing as an example. Is he going to be shaky in the pocket because of the injury?
And I truly think it's hilarious that you're using Bradfords game vs Chicago as part of this argument. He literally couldnt walk. And Keenum snatched the starting job right out of his hands?? lol. Bradford wasnt near healthy at the time, so who else was going to start?? Kyle Sloter? Bradford would've continued to be the starter if he was healthy by week 5 but he wasnt.
As for Cousins, you're ignoring the rest of the Redskins team and how bad they were and using that against Cousins. Bottom barrel defense since Cousins took over, 28th in rushing this past year, had a #1 WR of Pryor/Crowder, had a bad OL and was missing his best player in Jordan Reed most of the year. But yeah I cant believe Kirk Cousins didnt make the playoffs this year.
And they did make the playoffs. In 2015 and caught the packers in the first round. The Redskins won the division. Cousins threw for 329 and no turnovers and their awful defense gave up 35 points.
As for Teddy, yeah, I would be all for bringing him back as a backup. But to just rely on him being the starter going into next year is as dumb as dumb gets IMO. But is he a viable starter, we still do not know.