mtu9356 said:
firelink said:
Brady, Rodgers, Peyton, Eli, Ben and Drew - these guys can single handedly carry their team. When the Ravens are in a rut, Flacco just heaves the ball. You never see him throw a sharp ball into triple coverage. You never see him throw many slants, passes to slot receivers, barely catchable side-line drives. Ask Flacco to make the pass to Holmes in the Steelers vs Cardinals Super Bowl. He wouldn't be able to.
What he can do? Barely make passes. He has one of the worst completion percentages in the league, not an "average" one. He consistently fumbles when under pressure. He consistently makes bad throws under pressure. In the playoffs alone this season, he threw the ball badly 7 or 8 times right at the opposing player, but for some reason CBs and safeties can no longer catch. If Torey Smith and Boldin weren't there to bail out Flacco's heave-and-pray attempts, the Ravens would have been done in Denver.
Give credit to the guys working around him. There are QBs who have to carry most of their offense, and they do it well. The Ravens's offense has to carry Flacco, and you can tell any time Smith and Boldin are adequetely covered. Those are the games Flacco has some of the worst ratings in history in. |
I wondered if I was the only one. During the playoffs the announcers constantly praised Flaccos long ball as being the best in the league, but all I saw him do was heave the balls deep. He just doesn't have the power some of the others have.
The announcers during the Superbowl were laughably bad, they kept saying that Kaepernick had an elite arm. Seriously, I was like get off this guys d**k.
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Exactly.
A good example:
In the SB, a few 49ers were rushing Flacco out of bounds late in the game. Flacco just heaved the ball up, and Boldin (I think) ran all the way across the field to catch it. All the announcers could say was what a great pass it was, meanwhile he didn't even throw it to anyone. He just threw it up and his receiver bailed him out. That's not a good QB. That's an outstanding receiver.
