DevilRising said:
And as for "all he can do is heave balls"....that's funny, because his deep passes seem to more often than not be on the mark. Seems to me that's called "accuracy". He also threw into mutliple coverage, in the red zone, AND to Boldin on mid-range passes for clutch first downs....... He may not be Drew Brees (who I've long been a fan of and believe is THE best QB playing today). But the degree to which some of you are selling him short is absoltuley absurd. It's funny that I hear this bullshit about "Oh Flacco would be nothing without his receivers making catches". Like............fucking DUH? You could say the exact same thing about Brady, Brees, Rogers, Manning, or ANY other great QB in American football history. Yes, a QB needs great WRs to make great plays on the passes they throw. I would have thought that was common logic. But the fact that he threw 11 TDS (would have been 12 if not for uncalled blatant PI on Torrey Smith in the second quarter of the SB), and ZERO INTs, againt some pretty good defenses this past post-season. No, he didn't "Win all by himself", but neither did any of those other guys any of you just mentioned. Drew Brees doesn't "carry a team all by himself". It takes his Oline giving him time to pass, his receivers actually MAKING catches, etc. And quite frankly, in Cam Cameron's vanilla offense, it's no wonder he didn't put up 4000+ yds. and make a Pro Bowl. But really, he's got the only stat that truly matters. He wins. He's won more playoff games (or for that matter BEEN to more) than Brees, Rogers, Ryan, Romo, Cutler, Rivers, or Schaub. There is no way that Matt Ryan is a better QB than Flacco. He operates in a pass first offense, especially this past season. Flacco actually has a run game and Baltimore runs a balanced offense. Ryan has won ONE playoff game, and only barely. Flacco has won in the post season every year of his career, and he's done something that some of those guys likely never will, won a SB. And to try and pretend that that playoff run had little to do with Flacco, is pretty absurd. He has played well in the playoffs the past three years in fact, and if not for a dropped pass by Lee Evans, this might've been the second SB he'd won in as many years. Just saying.
I really don't get the point of hating on how much Flacco is getting paid. It's the ridiculous nature of the beast. He won't be the "highest paid" for very long, and the number will keep going up and up and up. That's just today's NFL, like it or not. But Flacco is a winner, much more so than some of the QBs some of you guys have claimed are "better" than he is. And he will continue to be a winner. That's all you, as a fan, could ask for. |
Having a more balanced attack should actually help a quarterback completion % and passer rating (could also lower the passing yards and tds though). Play action pass can really help a qb out ask Kaepernick/Alex Smith. It really keeps the defense on edge not knowing what to expect. Flacco also had the ability to dish it to a top 5 back in Ray Rice which is a huge bonus not many have. He had 61 receptions last season and 76 the year before.