In this letter to the editor, one fan proves my point. This guy, like everybody else except the coaches/players/me, naturally blames Gordon for every bad pass. He talks about drops. I'm sorry, I didn't see any drops until Johnny took over.
He says that Hoyer didn't lose this game. To him, everybody else except his guy lost the game.
Well, after that despicable, flagrant, and obvious helmet-first spear to Barnidge's ribs, the Browns were short of tight ends and couldn't execute their game-plan as intended. This compounded the already challenging pressure that awesome defensive line was putting on the backfield.
After McDonald went down, it was inside penetration.
I rarely blame a quarterback for a loss, and can't do that here. But he sure was a big part of it! Yes he was, Mister Rosy Glasses!
I hadn't known how bad it was til Bob Evans wrote this article in Buckeye State Sports. Statistically, our homie is just atrocious under pressure! (I mean physical heat, not psychological pressure.) He has been for awhile.
As Bob keeps repeating in the article, these stats don't lie.
When you further analyze this, you remember that his impressive comebacks came when defenses backed off and tried to protect leads, with more people in coverage.
I'm sorry, but it's just the truth. Hoyer is my guy, but I've taken off my rose-colored glasses and stepped on them. And unfortunately, this is not something you can coach him out of.
It is possible that his injury did something to his head, so it might get better as he works harder at it.
And as my pal Ray O. Sunshine points out, Hoyer seems to kill teams he plays twice. Maybe he just needs a real fight to figure them out. Bengals. Steelers. And in the first Steelers' game, he seemed to have figured them out near halftime.
Then there's the fact that he's not really a veteran. He has (really) 14 games worth of real-game experience. All his practice and scout-team reps had him as well-prepared as any QB can be without real-game experience, but Rich Gannon wants you to know: There is no substitute.
This might well mean that Brian probably hasn't reached his peak yet. It also means that both the Bengals and the Ravens could lose because Hoyer knows them now.
So there's some good and some bad here.
But from another neighborhood in Myopia, I hear that Manziel is a "punk". One guy calls NFL Radio and said "He was in trouble in Las Vegas, then he got in trouble with that inflated goose or whatever--"
Whoa, partner! What trouble? He hasn't been in any trouble with the law or the team. He hasn't missed any meetings. All the players and coaches say he's quiet, studious, a good team mate, and puts his work in.
Again, you see what you want to see. What do teammates and coaches know?
We're all like this as children. You never outgrow it without some sort of guidance, or unless your life forces pragmatism on you as a survival skill.
What you want, or wish for, has nothing to do with what is. Manziel is not a punk. Hoyer is not a superstar (or a loser). Manziel might not be ready.
And Josh Gordon ran the right pattern.
And Josh Cribbs isn't the same as he was before he got old.
OK. D'Qwell Jackson still has it. But so does the much younger/cheaper Craig Roberts.
Because of myopia, undrafted free agent DeShaun Gipson remained invisible, even as he kicked butt all of last season. You were still declaring a "hole" at safety opposite Whitner.
Roberts was a bust in his second season.
Fans make up their minds, then it's over. Nothing changes, because they filter out, rationalize away, or just plain deny what contradicts it.
Critical thinking was once taught in schools. Then came the Department of Education. Now it's not. Those people vote. That's why.
I've checked out Glenn Winston as much as I could. He makes Crow look like a choir boy. With Winston it was fights. We hope he's outgrown it.
When he ran his horrific Pro Day 40, he was seven pounds heavier than he is now. There's an assertion that he's clocked below 4.5, but his agent could have invented it.
But I've learned to trust Ray Farmer, who not only snatched him up, but talked him up too. Given Winston's deplorable off-the-field history, which included time in the clink, he simply has to have something going for him for the 49ers to have signed him.
With Crow dinged up, it matters. One thing is, he's 6'2", and this makes him an easy target if he has some recieving skills. This also helps in pass protection.
Dug into (center) Seymore a little more: He's very athletic, and ran zone-blocking in college at about every position. He has a year under his belt.
I don't know how he'll do in this game, or down the road. But I'll give him a chance, because I don't make up my mind about guys based on their draft status.
Anyway, he should be fine run-blocking, as long as you understand that we don't need road-graders in this system. You worry about him getting pushed around in pass protection...which happened last week.
Another concern is line calls, but many teams have a more experienced guard do that when neccessary, and the quarterback can do it too.
It was his first start ever, vs. those lab-built monsters in Buffalo. Give him a chance.
In conclusion, think with your BRAIN.
YOU STAND CORRECTED.
Late note: Gordon took the blame for a d i f f e r e n t interception than the one I referred to. Nice try.
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