Okay, fuck it, couldn't resist, went back and watched the game to confirm the shit I posted yesterday in the game thread and with both Bowen and Orlovsky's comments in mind.
From what I saw, this was the best full game we've seen AR play. Brady, Montana, Manning, good, nope, not close. Graded on an AR slope, from my perspective- absolutely his best game throwing the ball.
You know who wasn't good, who was downright fucking bad, the fucking lame ass OL! If you want to see some dudes put on the bench- there's a series of big fucking loafers on that line that should be sitting! Rainnman- worst game he's ever played! Nelson, oh yeah, pissed about the 3 false starts, and he had the great pull block on the screen, but man that dude had some atrocious pass pro in this game.
AR got some passes off where his clock was sped up and he made a good reed and delivered a ball. A couple of them, completely off foundation because he couldn't follow through.
Finally, and I bitched about this in the game thread. Man if you don't want to watch the whole game, just pull up the final fucking play.
Steichen, if you want to be a disciplinarian and you want to hold dudes accountable. Smith, Nelson, and Rainnman---- all three of them should be handed 3 game suspensions! 3 Games, one for each of the fucking rushers you let get to the QB! Watch just how fucking bad all three of them are on that play, and in particular Nelson! Rainnman doesn't even come close to stopping the edge, just gets blown the fuck up, but the real problem, the one that makes it so there is no chance for AR to avoid the first lineman, is Nelson completely shitting the bed and letting his man go all the way across his face. He damn near falls down trying to reach for the block he is so late in recognition of what is happening. First ballot HOF franchise Guard my fucking ass!
The whole damn team did AR no fucking favors in this game, none! From Steichen calling 37 passes to the OL just being statues- hell watch the tap out play- holy shit it's embarrassing how bad the line performed, to the WR room not even pretending to know how to catch all fucking day... THIS WAS A TEAM BED SHITTING- in fact, outside of the audible and of course the tap out, AR was probably the high water mark for performance.
So, this better be a "look, we're going to sit you for a game, no matter what happens with Flacco this week you are getting the next start but we have to do this to save face for the tap out". If this is anything other than that, then Shane Steichen can fuck off as a coach!
And for what it is worth, if the OL is anything near this bad, Flacco won't make it through this game. THEY WERE THAT FUCKING BAD!
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