05-08-2018, 12:38 AM
(05-07-2018, 11:59 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Yeah, that was Carson's second playoff game right? How'd his second in ARZ go?
We obviously don't know what CP9 would have done in his first game. But he was 1 for 1 for 68 yards and a passer rating of 118.7. Now folks can play like they don't know how CP9 would have fared in that game, but most folks that watch the game saw how it was going to go.
The thing is, we really don't know. Are we going to pretend we haven't seen a great play at the beginning of a bad game? Sure, Palmer was on fire in 2005. Dalton was on fire in 2015. Do you think he would've lit up the Steelers? Of course you don't.
All we know is what we've actually seen. Kitna played like crap. CP played like crap. Dalton played like crap. McCarron played like crap.
Simple facts here. No QB has not played like crap for Marvin Lewis. Players in general play like crap in playoffs/PT under Merv, but we focus on QB for 2 reasons (a) people are QB obsessed and (b) it's easier to determine when a QB is playing like crap (through stats). People don't like to acknowledge that the other QB's didn't fare so well because it hurts the "it's all Andy's fault" narrative...but it happened.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
