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Originally Posted by irish
Your talking defensive strategy and I'm talking winning and losing games. I dont care what strategy is used, its the wins that count. I agree that AH will impact the Skins defensive strategy. Will that translate into more wins, hopefully it will.
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Let's talk winning and losing games. Will Tennessee win more or less games without AH? Will Kerry Collins raise the level of play to make up for the loss of AH? Or, as he was last year, will KC simply be a game manager -a competent one, but, nonetheless, not a game changer. AH, however, made everyone on the defense better. This in turn allowed Tennessee to be a grind it out team (300 yards rushing games?? Oh yeah, a skilled QB is essential for those handoffs). Tennessee will lose more games this year as a result of AH not being there. Bank on it.
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Originally Posted by irish
At this point JC and MH are not comparable. MH has taken his team to the playoffs and super bowk, JC hasnt. I dont think that replacing JC with a competent QB would set the team back at all. Skins fans are now in the mindset that it takes years to develop a QB when in fact QBs like Cassell, Rothlessberger, Ryan stepped right in and got the job done.
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Just so we're clear:
At this point - MH is a QB with 10 years exp. HOWEVER - When he was at the JC's stage, a QB with 4 years exp., he hadn't won any Super Bowls and had barely beaten out John Kitna for the starting job in his third year (he road the pine behind Farve his first two years in the league- remember?). In MH's first two years as starter, the Seahawks went 9-7 and 7-9. Neither of which were playoff years. If you compare MH's 4th year numbers to JC's 4th year numbers MH has a slight edge (QB Rating 87.8 v. 84.3). Sorry, MH and JC are very comparable if you look at them in the same point at their careers.
Sure, some QB's step right in. The vast majority don't. You can count on two hands the number of QB's who were immediately successful (Oh, BTW, neither Manning brother was, Steve Young? Brett Farve? Nope). Cassell, by the way did not "step right in." He sat on the bench FOR THREE YEARS!!
Will JC turn the corner? Dunno. This is pretty much the year for him to do it. I hope he will and believe it likely. But to say he won't based on your comparisons relies on a faulty premise.