07-27-2018, 04:45 PM
(07-27-2018, 10:02 AM)Nately120 Wrote: In all fairness Jimmy G went 2-0 with a Patriots team and was dismissed as being on a team anyone can win with and then he went to an 0-8 team that was on a 2-22 streak and won all 5 remaining games. Small sample size, but that's a pretty impressive feat. If we would have traded McCarron to the Browns midseason and he won every remaining game with that crap squad I bet we'd be kicking ourselves (regardless if it's the right or wrong thing to do).
I'll also say this whole "judging a QB based on a small sample size" fear we have going right now is interesting since Nick Foles went from a backup, to a one-year-wonder, to a backup, to a SB MVP everyone wants. I'll admit when Foles had that great season with the Eagles I asked my friend who is a Giants fan if he was dreading a rival having a youthful and successful QB and he said he wasn't worried until he did it more than once. Well, Foles fizzled out and I had to admit he was right. Now here we are again where he was wrong...or something. Who knows.
Don't get it twisted, I like Jimmy G and defended the 49ers for giving up what they did even before Jimmy took a snap for them. That said, as much as I like him, I realize that 4-5 games have fooled a lot of people in the past. There were already reports of him struggling in mini-camp. Take that for what it's worth, but we just don't know how it will go.
Some QB's have strung together entire seasons where they looked like future legends (think RGIII, Preskott, Josh Freeman, etc), only to come crashing down. In short, I have no issue with optimism for Jimmy G...but ranking him 13th based on a small handful of games? Lets see him run that back for an entire season first.
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