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02-19-2013, 02:11 PM | #1 |
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Oh for ****s sake - that's the best you have?
You're right, it was Trent Green's fault we didn't win anything. It had nothing to do with the career day defense. When people make shitty arguments, they detract from the good ones. Yours is one of the former.
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02-19-2013, 04:06 PM | #2 | |
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So you really think Trent Green was a SB quality QB? Seriously? Like I said, he is getting better with age. No doubt, he was a pillar of the community and a great guy, but he did have a lot of faults behind center. Like when he was rushed he would overthrow the ball repeatedly. |
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02-19-2013, 04:12 PM | #3 | |
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Trent Green was easily as good at his peak as Joe Flacco is now.
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Do you think Trent threw as good of a deep ball? As accurate? As composed? That being said, Flacco winning the SB this year has given a lot of second tier QBs hope, since it wasn't a Manning or Luck caliber getting the win. |
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02-19-2013, 04:22 PM | #5 | |
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I think Green was far more accurate on intermediate routes though, and yeah, I definitely think he was as composed. He was a better decisionmaker and ran a far more complicated offense than I think Flacco's capable of running. They're different, but in the end I think Green was a more productive and versatile QB than Flacco is now.
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That offense was very complicated, and that is a great point. But Trent had the luxury of the best running attack this team has ever had, and among the very ever. |
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02-19-2013, 04:30 PM | #7 | |
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That was one of the best offensive lines in the history of football. That being said, Trent had a run with the Rams in 2000 that was literally one of the best stretches of games I've ever seen out of NFL QB. |
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I think that Trent was a cerebral as a QB you could find, in any era, and it's a damn shame that Rodney Harrison robbed him of what could have been an even better career. |
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But when he was at his apex, those 4 years from 2002-2005, man he was precise. In those 4 years he averaged damn near 8 yds/attempt. And that was when only guys like Manning and Brady were putting up numbers like that. To put it into perspective, even with weapons like Boldin and Torrey Smith, Flacco's never averaged better than 7.4 YPA and on his career is averaging 7.1. That's even with the fact that he's a very good downfield passer. Yeah, the system helped, but even the YAC yards were a result of the fact that he was so good at hitting guys in stride and frankly he just didn't miss very often. For a guy with a sub-standard arm to be able to hit at 8 yds/attempt means that he was firing a hell of a grouping. He was putting it in the right spot almost every time. History, if anything, has been extremely unkind to Trent Green. We don't realize how good we had it with that guy over those 4 seasons and I think that is almost exclusively because of how quickly people soured on him in 2001.
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