Post by whoskmoon on Jul 24, 2020 21:19:38 GMT -6
Bradford's season was worse than Teddy's. If a QBs job is to move the football and score points, Teddy did that much better. If it is to produce yards and TDs in meaningful game situations, Teddy wins there too.
If a QB's job is to produce in garbage time and throw a lot in an ineffective offense Bradford had Teddy beat though, I will give you that.
Case certainly had Teddy beat, and Cousins' 2019 season was better, but I take an efficient 2015 Teddy over what we had in 2016 and 2018 all day, every day.
Even in 2017 and 2019 his QBs were deeply flawed. Case was journeyman backup playing out of his mind who was destined to come back to earth sooner rather than later, and Cousins struggled against every good defense he faced. To win it all with flawed QBs like Zimmer has coached, you need every other part of your team to play elite, and a lot to go your way in the playoffs. He has never had the luxury of being able to rely on his QB to pick up the team when defense struggles, or keep plays alive when his Oline struggles with a pass rush.
Some of that is on him, he had to have at least signed off on the Bradford trade and the Cousins signing or I doubt Rick makes those moves. He isn't blameless in his QB situations, but he has had some bad luck that was beyond his control.
No, he didn't lol. Teddy led the 32nd ranked passing game in football both of his two pathetic, bad seasons with us. His running game making up for it has no bearing on anything.
You would take teddy's absolutely atrocious 2015 over Bradford's pretty good 2016? That's mighty silly, but preferring Teddy's 2015 over Kirk's 2018 is sheer mental delusion lol.
Every QB has flaws. The fact is, EVERY SINGLE season of Zimmers career, he has has had good QB play, aside from Bridgwater who you inexplicably pretend wasnt atrocious, in flagrant disregard of any and all statistical measure.
The acquisition of Bradford, Keenum and Kirk are the whole reasons why we haven't had a bad QB season since noodle arm, Zimmers role in this would be a credit to his resume, if anything.
Bridgewater going down was the single luckiest thing to ever happen to Mike Zimmer, it instantly took his passing games from league worst to solid at the least.
Zimmer hasn't experienced any worse luck than the average HC. You just want to play mental gymnastics to rationalize excuses for him, while not doing the same for other coaches
Just to be clear, your argument is that besides the year he managed to win 11 with a "noodle armed" QB who played atrocious, he only had success because he got good QB play out of the worst statistical starter since 2010 with 60+ starts (who is the consensus #1 bust in Rams draft history), a journeyman backup who has sucked everywhere else but under Zimmer, and a guy even Washington didn't want. Yet you are saying he is a bad coach?
Good solid logic there.