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I understand your point, but I don't think it is fair to disregard an entire season or two of work and concentrate on only 2 individual situations.
IMO, those situations were in reality pretty different. The San Diego game, it is like his 4th game back as a starter. He had an overall horrible game and seemed pretty shellshocked at the time. It was just one of those bad days QB's have sometimes, like Warner the other day. He should have gone for the end zone, even though everyone was covered, and he knows it. And I guaruntee you if we were on the 32 in this game he would have gone for the end zone. He's done it in all the other games. What other game can you remember where he doesn't go for the end zone in that situation.
Now down near the goal line, that is a whole different thing. If you read Beurlein's comments, it was one of those throws that a QB sees a guy streaking towards the end zone and instinctually they let the ball go and as it leaves they are thinking "No, no! Come back!" It was a bad decision, but the situation and mentality was different than the one in San Diego, even though they seem similar.
But I think that there are many more good things than bad things. Those are two games. If we want to concentrate on only the negatives, then I don't think that makes a fair assessment, because we're throwing out all the comebacks and the wins and saying, "Hey this guy didn't get it done in these two situations, it doesn't matter if he has done it in other situations, he can't win."
[This message has been edited by DaWolf (edited 12-07-2000).]
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