Sporting News Ranks AJ McCarron League's Best Backup QB

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(07-17-2016, 01:15 AM)BigSeph Wrote: Nobody can "prove you wrong" on the topic of AJM because you have such a huge chip on your shoulder, it blocks your view of reality.

Just look at the drives from the game itself, and tell me what AJM was so bad at-


First drive of the game, 2-2 for 13 yards.  That's a first down most of the time, except when Whit jumps offsides and J Hill gets no gain on the ground.  Did AJ jump offsides?  Did he rush for 0 yards?  You're so delusional and ridiculous that you probably think Whit jumped because of AJ's voice, it's not as good as Andy's voice.  And hey maybe Hill got no gain because AJ didn't hand him the ball fast enough for him to look at the OL and make a cut.  


AJM - 4-6, 44 yards, sacked once.
Rest of team- J Hill 2 rushes, -2 yards.  Whit -5 yards false start again.  Obviously AJM sucks.


AJM 1-2, 5 yards
Rest of team- J Hill 1 rush, 2 yards


AJM 1 fumble (recovered), 1 sack+fumble (recovered)
Rest of team - Gio 1 rush, 14 yards

This is the first drive of the game where AJM did not outperform the rest of the entire offense.  


AJM- 0 for 2, 1 INT
Rest of team - J Hill 1 rush, -3 yards

This is the second drive of the game where AJM did not outperform the rest of the entire offense.




AJM - 1-2, 4 yards
Rest of team - 

That's the first half. 

If you were objective you would get the point - AJM did fine in that game, and brought the team back from 15 points down (you STILL have to protect the ball even if the defense hands it to you) in the 2nd half.  He got better as the game went on, as he got over his nerves (this was after all his first ever NFL playoff game and it was a rainstorm).

The rest of the team wasn't carrying him on their backs, he didn't start every drive at the Pitt 30 either.

I can only theorize that he took your mother out for a nice seafood dinner and never called her again.  You're that irrational when it comes to AJM.

You say "he didn't contribute to the near comeback win"

At the end of the 3rd quarter the Bengals were down 15-0.

To start the 4th quarter he throws a bomb to AJ Green, gets a 42 yard pass interference call.  Hill rushes twice to get it into the endzone from the 3 yard line.

Next drive-

AJM - 5-7, 56 yards

2 rush, 7 rush yards

rest of team- Burkhead 1 carry, 4 yards.  J Hill 2 carries, 3 yards

He equaled the rushing output of the RBs on that drive and drove the team down for a FG.  He didn't contribute?

Next drive-


AJM- 4-6, 42 yards, TD
1 rush, 3 yards
Rest of team- 

Gosh this AJM guy sure is producing yardage and moving the team down the field with barely any support on the ground, isn't he?

Next play was the Hill fumble, after AJ drove the team down and got them the lead and the defense stepped up (like they did all day) and gave the ball back to the offense.

So when you say 


It means you are either the most ignorant person in the history of message board posting (claiming something is true despite not watching the game or looking at the box score) or you have a real problem with AJM and you make weak emotional arguments against him rather than looking at the facts and making rational arguments.

That's not a false dilemma - you are either really ignorant or you really hate AJM so much it causes you to type irrational statements on the internet.

This is why nobody will ever "prove" anything to you, because you will downplay everything that DID happen, and pretend it was all because the rest of the team was so great except that one guy, AJM, who is just a poopyhead.  

It's not above proving something right to me, it's about proving that McCarron did a good job in the playoffs. You can't do that either, because it didn't happen. The only thing McCarron did was dink and dunk. The defense played like a SB defense, and the people around McCarron didn't play bad at all. McCarron gave up a lot of sacks and fumbled the ball quite a bit this game, because he held onto the ball too long and had happy feet. The only drive that was ok was the last real drive of the game, where Green had to stop and jump up for the ball to get the TD.

First drive might not have been all of his fault, but he still didn't play well there. If he would have made a good play the Bengals might have had a first down. - Punt

The second drive McCarron dinked and dunked a couple of short passes where his weapons gave him as many yards through YAC as he did through the air, and McCarron having happy feet and giving the defense a sack. - Punt

The third drive McCarron couldn't even get a 1st down. - Punt

The fourth drive there were two fumbles one being 100% McCarrons fault, and other because of the center snapped it early. -Punt

The fifth drive he threw an incompletion and then an interception. - INT

The sixth drive he threw a screen to Gio and then two incompletions. - Punt

The seventh drive he threw a couple of short passes and then got a sack/fumble since he is terrible against pressure. -Fumble

The eighth drive he completed a meh pass to Green (Green was wide open and Green had to make a nice catch from it going out of bounds) and then he threw two incompletions. - Punt

The ninth drive he completed a couple of short passes and fumbles the ball and then Gio gets ktfo. - Fumble

The tenth drive he gets a ticky tack PI call and no other completions. -Hill TD (which started on the Steelers side of the field)

The eleventh drive RBs were involved in 46 out of 70 yards the offense. -FG

The twelfth drive we started on the Steelers side of the field and he threw a TD pass to Green. -Green TD

The thirteenth drive Hill fumbled. -Fumble

So out of all of those drives, he had one drive that you could argue was good (the twelfth). The rest of the game he looked like garbage, and the defense looked like the best defense in the league. What did he contribute to? Giving the Steelers the ball with good field position? The offense couldn't open up at all because McCarron was dinking and dunking and had trouble with any intermediate or long throws. I don't know how you think that McCarron did anything but awful that playoff game. It's probably because you fantasize about McCarron every night.