09-22-2015, 09:18 PM
(09-22-2015, 06:43 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Yeah this did happen (VJax held out that year), but there's a reason you have to go back to 2010 to find an example. QB's usually suffer when their receivers are decimated by injury and/or FA losses. Flacco and Brady in 2013 both come to mind as recent examples of QB performance taking a dip due to losses at receiver. Eli struggled that year as well after losing his #1 and dealing with some injuries at receiver.
All 3 of those players rebounded in a big way after their receivers improved, either through FA, draft or getting guys back. Dalton looks like he's about to have a rebound season as well.
Oh for sure, I pretty much agree with what Brownshoe was saying, but he asked what I meant about Rivers so I went into detail about it. It was more about just how awesome Philip Rivers can be than anything else.
Every great QB needs some good receivers and even the best receivers still need someone to get the ball to them all over the field. There are exceptions at times but generally you need both to get somewhere in the playoffs and even TO the playoffs.
People's heads are going to explode if Andy ends the year top 5 in passer rating though. I almost want to say that I'm more excited to see people lose their shit over that than anything else. I'm hoping he does it for the reactions alone.
