Tom Sykes -> RE: General Vikes Talk (3/1/2022 5:23:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: marty Phil My point wasn't we need to find the next Mahomes (which is also a good idea), my point was about Mahomes in response to this: Mahomes, Tom, Joe, Matt, and Josh have great teams built around them. There can be other great QBs out there, and ones that are more clutch, and win more than Kirk. Just get a top 15 QB that wins more, and is more clutch than Kirk. Clutch...look up GW drives. Look up how far 29th and 30th ranked defenses do. Look up how much you will have to pay that top 15 QB (which we already have). He doesn't have that many GW drives. 20 for his career. Less than Jon Kitna, Mark Brunell, Alex Smith, Donovan McNabb, Matt Hasselbeck, Joe Flacco, Jake Delhomme, Dave Krieg, Boomer Esiason, Ryan Tannehill, Jay Cutler, Jake Plummer, Kerry Collins, Derek Carr, Vinny Testeverde, Carson Palmer, and Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford has more than double the GW drives than Cousins. Interesting tidbit on Stafford, in 2016 he engineered EIGHT GW drives for Detroit, who went 9-7 that season. De-fricking-troit. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/gwd_career.htm He had 4...but look into it. Detroit, Cincy, and Arizona would have been 3 more. Wait. The Lions? [insert sound effect of whipflash] You want to give Cousins credit for a 4th qtr comeback 'that should have been' because he scored on his last drive ... even though the Lions scored a touchdown on their final drive to win the game? So it's not just that Cousins drove the team into position and somebody else effed up like Cook and Joseph ... now you are including other teams that score last ... they should not affect Cousins 'near comeback' record either? Phil you have outdone yourself. The audacity of it ... I can't even wrap my head around the spectacular lameness of your argument. Congratulations. And what about the Cincy and AZ 'near comebacks' that you keep prattling off like scripture? Should Cousins be given partial 'clutch' credit when two of the three drives BEFORE the final 'almost clutch' drives were 3 and outs? Nope. AZ vs MN Joseph missed kick The 3 MN drives before the missed kick: Punt (4th QTR, 3 and out), Punt (4th QTR, 3 and out), Field Goal (3rd QTR,10 plays) CIN vs MN Cook Fumble The 3 MN drives before the fumble: Punt (OT, 3 and out), FG (4th QTR, 9 plays), Punt (4th QTR, 3 and out) Yes, Cousins should have racked up 4th qtr game winning drives against AZ CIN, he played really well on those drives. But you can't just give credit to Cousins for the positive and dismiss the negative. That's just the way it is for all QBs ... too much credit and too much criticism.
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