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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I'll admit that most of my knowledge of Grogan came from football cards as a youth, and they only reported his passing stats. I recall him being a running type of QB (though wasn't he also pretty tall)?
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Yes, very tall for a running QB. 6'4". Until Cam Newton a few years ago, Grogan had the record for most rushing TDs by a QB in a season. 12. Before his body started breaking down about 4 or 5 years into his career, he averaged about 400 yards rushing per season.
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I think Bledsoe is underrated as a QB in NFL annals. I figured he'd take some team to the Super Bowl at some point.
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Meh. Bledsoe had a million dollar arm and a ten cent head. He would lose you a game as quickly as he won it for you by his sometimes stupid decision-making.
He did take the Pats to the 1996 SB, the one they lost to Green Bay, with Parcells as HC, Curtis Martin at RB, and a solid overall team.
He never lived up to his #1 overall draft status, so Pats fans hate him for not being ultra-elite. He was definitely an above-average QB for most of his career, but his decision-making was atrocious at times.
There is, ultimately, a reason why the Pats won the SB **after** he got hurt in 2001, and then BB felt confident enough to trade him
within the division to the Bills after that season, even though he wasn't even 30 years old at that point. In many ways, he relied on his arm instead of hard-work, and he wasn't as coachable as he should have been. I hear he's a very nice guy, so I dont' want to call him a spoiled prima donna, but let's just say he was the anointed one, and acted like it from time to time.