Re: Kirk Cousins is just NOT a big game quarterback
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 5:10 pm
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You are so right, my extreme skins poster. We have seen it all.
You are so right, my extreme skins poster. We have seen it all.
Wilson won a Super Bowl. IMO he played on a team with one of the most dominating defenses in NFL history. The LOB. I already pointed that out in another thread. The LOB won the Super Bowl but Wilson gets all the credit which is BS. They should have won another but Wilson, like Cousins did, threw an interception in the end zone to Butler and they lost. But the LOB got them there. Since no LOB no Super Bowl with Wilson. Why is that? If our team played D like the LOB we would have beat the Pack easily last week. We would have a chance at the Super Bowl with the LOB defense even with loser Cousins. Basically what your saying is Cousins is calling the plays. I doubt that's true. If it is he shouldn't be after what he did last week. He was looking for the TD pass instead of the win. That's not good IMO.S197 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 22, 2019 4:32 pm [quote=CharVike post_id=683005 time=<a href="tel:1569186755">1569186755</a> user_id=9869]
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There's a lot of emulation with Seattle's offense last year. It's run 1st football with a QB that is capable of making plays and extending drives. I'm not saying Cousins is on par with Wilson, just that the overall strategy is similar. I'm hopeful that if Cousins can see he has a running game and defense to back him up, he won't force so many throws and make careless errors. He doesn't have the same weight on his shoulders here as in Washington and needs to adjust his game accordingly.
I'm not sure what this means. Some bum I've never heard of from Jacksonville is considered better than Rodgers. Basically by these rankings Rodgers needs to be replaced. You that makes sense. If I was picking players for a new team my QB would be Rodgers. Dak Prescott is rated high. How many Super Bowls has he won? He's ahead of Rodgers also.halfgiz wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2019 5:10 pm PFF quarterback rankings.
https://www.pff.com/news/pro-pff-rankin ... ing-week-3
PFF rankings after 3 weeks...surprised how they have some of the QB's ranked. Be interesting to see how they are ranked mid season.CharVike wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 8:18 amI'm not sure what this means. Some bum I've never heard of from Jacksonville is considered better than Rodgers. Basically by these rankings Rodgers needs to be replaced. You that makes sense. If I was picking players for a new team my QB would be Rodgers. Dak Prescott is rated high. How many Super Bowls has he won? He's ahead of Rodgers also.halfgiz wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2019 5:10 pm PFF quarterback rankings.
https://www.pff.com/news/pro-pff-rankin ... ing-week-3
Yea, this is just how they have played through 3 games, and draft status, prior success, supporting cast and game situation are not taken into account.halfgiz wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 6:21 pmPFF rankings after 3 weeks...surprised how they have some of the QB's ranked. Be interesting to see how they are ranked mid season.CharVike wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 8:18 am
I'm not sure what this means. Some bum I've never heard of from Jacksonville is considered better than Rodgers. Basically by these rankings Rodgers needs to be replaced. You that makes sense. If I was picking players for a new team my QB would be Rodgers. Dak Prescott is rated high. How many Super Bowls has he won? He's ahead of Rodgers also.
Today was a classic cousins’ game. Terrible all game then makes a few plays in garbage time to make his stat line look decent.
Bottom line is, the offensive line is still a serious concern, especially when it comes to pass blocking. I told you that before this game.StumpHunter wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2019 6:49 pm I hate message boards after losses, but this time, while the game is still fresh in people's minds, is the best of that week, at least since the Cousins era began. All the Cousins apologists go into hiding and think of anyone but Kirk Cousins who they can blame for the loss. They make their list, check it twice, and then when what actually happened in the game starts to fade from people's minds, they strike.
I will save them some time Yes the oline sucked. Most Olines do suck against the Bears. Yes the defense gave up a couple of long drives, but they did hold the Bears to 13 points with 3 coming on a drive where the Bears lost 5 yards.
The Vikings were never going to put up 30 on the Bears, they are too good. Cousins was never going to throw for 400 yards, and no, Rodgers wasn't going to either in that game if we had him.
A good QB could have done something to make that game competitive though.
Cousins did have a couple of good plays, the 4th and 3 throw to Diggs was awesome, I will give him that.
Everything else was just plain bad.
They gave up 13 points....Pondering Her Percy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2019 10:12 pmBottom line is, the offensive line is still a serious concern, especially when it comes to pass blocking. I told you that before this game.StumpHunter wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2019 6:49 pm I hate message boards after losses, but this time, while the game is still fresh in people's minds, is the best of that week, at least since the Cousins era began. All the Cousins apologists go into hiding and think of anyone but Kirk Cousins who they can blame for the loss. They make their list, check it twice, and then when what actually happened in the game starts to fade from people's minds, they strike.
I will save them some time Yes the oline sucked. Most Olines do suck against the Bears. Yes the defense gave up a couple of long drives, but they did hold the Bears to 13 points with 3 coming on a drive where the Bears lost 5 yards.
The Vikings were never going to put up 30 on the Bears, they are too good. Cousins was never going to throw for 400 yards, and no, Rodgers wasn't going to either in that game if we had him.
A good QB could have done something to make that game competitive though.
Cousins did have a couple of good plays, the 4th and 3 throw to Diggs was awesome, I will give him that.
Everything else was just plain bad.
Brian O’Neill needs to be this teams right tackle. I said it last year too. Reiffs feet and athleticism just aren’t there to stay with these speedy pass rushers. O’Neill’s are. Elfleins overall skill set is a concern which I don’t get because he was solid his rookie year. Bradbury’s pass blocking concerns me. Dozier is dozier but I think O’Neill is far and away our best lineman and Kline seems solid for the most part even tho he’s missed some time.
We need a new LT. Or a new RT and move O’Neill to left. Obviously I’ll give Bradbury time but still concerned. Hopefully Kline can get healthy and show he can continue decent play. Elflein might have to go after this year.
People can say “defense only gave up 16” and think it was an ok game all they want. That was the worst defensive outing of the year IMO. We had TWO possessions the entire first half. A backup QB was hardly ever blitzed or put on his back. And the bears OL isn’t that great and was banged up.
If I see one more DB 8 yards off on a 3rd and 3 a remote might go through my TV. I get sick of Zim saying he has confidence in his front 4 getting to the QB. He relies on it wayyy too much. On the rare occasions we sent a blitz or an extra rusher and Daniels he folded. But that was maybe twice. In a situation like we were in with Trubisky going down, how do you not send the wolves at a backup QB??? Like what are you worried about?? Him beating you over the top? We blitzed Matt Ryan and he has one of the better trios at WR and a way better arm. It’s like Zim played scared or sat guys back hoping for a pick.
No less, I can’t tell you how many times I saw us go press coverage on 1st and 10 but we’re a mile off on 3rd and 3?? Like it doesn’t even make any sense to me. All Daniels had to do was continue to check down, chip away and run the clock out. Fuc#ing get into press coverage on 3rd and 3 and send an extra rusher or two. The guy is gonna crap his pants. But we played that conservative defense that we see a few games a year from Zim. I will never understand what he pulled today.
I love Zim but he crapped the bed hard today. And no less we shoot ourselves in the foot by getting a penalty on that forced fumble. Something that early is a game changer. Instead, they go down and go up 7-0. Where it could’ve initially been 3-0 or 7-0 Vikings from the start. And getting the ball at half. Daniels could sit back and relax today because he was never in the hole. It reminded me of last years saints game. We’re going on before half and could have went up 17-13 AND getting the ball at half but thielen fumbles and we end up going into half down 20-10. Went from being possibly up 4 to down 10.
That’s a terrible offense to begin with let alone having a backup go in there. We could have shut this team out or given up under 10 if Zim would have some balls.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse/frustrating defensive performance than that in a long time. Sometimes things don’t go out way (rams last year, eagles in 2017) but that was easily preventable and Zim blew it badly.