List of QBs with most passing yards in first four seasons.

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(06-04-2015, 05:39 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Not Gresham and Benson. Benson had another full season in him, plus he was solid for the Pack before getting injured. 

RB's tend to fall off suddenly, but he still had plenty of life in 2010.

TO was 37 with a reputation, so I'm not surprised he was out of work. Chad had trouble learning the Pats complex playbook (he wasn't traded until the lockout ended, so not much time to learn and gel). Shipley's career was ruined by injury. The o-line was great. I don't really buy the no talent excuse for 2010. 

Besides, were Dalton's weapons in 2011 really that much better? He still had Benson (1 year older) and Gresham. No Shipley. AJ was an upgrade, but Simpson was a downgrade. 

You make some fair points but 2011 had a much easier schedule (it was night and day, really), no Bratkowski, and I'm sure there is some other stuff in there.  Palmer and Dalton were both better in 2011-2014 (for the most part) than Palmer in 2010 and there are a lot of reasons for that.  My main point simply comes down to the fact that we played teams in 2010 with the following records:

14-2
12-4
2-14
5-11
10-6
13-3
7-9
12-4
10-6
4-12
11-5
11-5
12-4
5-11
9-7
12-4

Now we managed to lose to two clunker teams, so we were outright bad at times but the 2011 team showed the same inability to beat winning teams as the 2010 one did (they both beat a single winning team)...they just ran into a lot less really good teams.