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CbusVikesFan wrote: Fight for what you believe in brother!!!!!

Mothman wrote: It will give him something to work on with the Turners during the offseason.

CbusVikesFan wrote:He can drive it on dates, not wreck it, keep it clean, then prove he is responsible enough to take care of a car, then he can have the keys.

Mothman wrote: Never? That's simply not true. I've heard Stafford's accuracy, in particular, criticized many, many times over the years. I rarely watch the Seahawks so I can't comment on that but just within the past two weeks, I heard a broadcaster criticizing Luck for making inaccurate throws.

I don't understand why you seem so bothered by people commenting on Teddy's accuracy issues when he's obviously had some accuracy issues.

John_Viveiros wrote: Well, if the best QB´s in the league (Luck, Wilson) have accuracy issues, isn´t it more of a statement about how difficult the position is, rather than a reason to criticize a QB for not being perfect. Does every FG kicker have accuracy issues, because no kicker has ever gone through a full year (playoffs included) without missing a kick?

Interesting thought I just had... Have we ever seen Teddy make a throw as bad as a certain future HOF QB made in his last playoff game in New Orleans? If so, I think it had to come in the first Detroit game.

DKSweets wrote:+1

It's ironic that so many of us defended trash QBs for years, and now Teddy is playing better than any of them and we have tempered optimism.

John_Viveiros wrote:Well, if the best QB´s in the league (Luck, Wilson) have accuracy issues, isn´t it more of a statement about how difficult the position is, rather than a reason to criticize a QB for not being perfect. Does every FG kicker have accuracy issues, because no kicker has ever gone through a full year (playoffs included) without missing a kick?

frosted wrote: Hahah, that made me laugh out loud. Nicely done.

Pondering Her Percy wrote: I agree DK and John. This is exactly what my point is. Maybe you guys said it better than I did

mosscarter wrote:75% completion rate against the second ranked defense in the league last week, with basically no weapons whatsoever. jennings is old, rudolph was banged up as always, and patterson could be one of the biggest disappointments in the whole league.

Turner said he’s seen many quarterbacks struggle when faced with a shifting supporting cast — eight offensive linemen, three different running backs, three different tight ends and a wide receiver who was signed off the Browns practice squad, for example — and that he hasn’t seen those struggles from Bridgewater, who Turner says has been asked to handle more than any other young quarterback he’s worked with.

“It’s pretty incredible to me what he’s done, how he’s handled it, the things he’s gotten done and what he’s really done is made everyone around him better and that’s a quality that you’re looking for … the thing that excites me is he can make any throw you need to make — he does it with people around him, he does it with people hitting him, he does it when he has to slide in the pocket. He knows how to play football and that’s the starting point of the quarterback position. He’s got the intangibles you need and he’s going to continue to get better and better,” Turner said, via Matt Vensel of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Mothman wrote: I can't believe you guys are enthusiastically supporting this nonsense.

Pondering, I've seen you repeatedly rip Jay Cutler. Earlier today, in this thread, you criticized Cam Newton's accuracy and mechanics and yet now you purport to agree "exactly" with a philosophy that states, "if the best QB´s in the league (Luck, Wilson) have accuracy issues, isn't it more of a statement about how difficult the position is, rather than a reason to criticize a QB for not being perfect"?

Is it a selective philosophy that doesn't apply to Cam Newton, Jay Cutler or even (gasp!) Christian Ponder? They play the same difficult position Teddy, Luck and Wilson play. If even the best QBs in the league have accuracy issues, isn't that a reason not to criticize Cutler, Newton and Ponder for being imperfect?