All of you ready to start Clemens based on preseason, remember good old Browning's great 5-0 preseason. I think Clemen's has potential, but the preseason and it's vanilla defenses mean nothing! Chad will be the stater baring another injury. QB is all about decision making, say what you want about him, but Chad excels in this capacity, Ramsey sucks at it, Brooks is getting better (for him the decision is also whether to run or pass), Clemens we will see when he gets into a regular season game. Split second decisions keep the chains moving more than a strong arm, of course it is best when you have both!
The Nagle comparisson is lame. On Saturday Bollinger and Ramsey combined for close to 100 yards yet no touchdown. Clemens had 2 completions and 2 yards passing. Those 2 yards were more productive than Bollinger and Ramsey combined. Yay!! it's great Chad is back but let's be honest. Did he wow you against the Bucs? Was his performance that impressive? It might have seemed impressive because he was out there and we haven't seen him in almost 2 years. Clemens was poised and calm against the Bucs albeit it was against the second string defense. But he seemed like the vet and Chad looked like the rookie. Having said that I believe we shouldn't rush to claim Clemens the "savior" just yet and I think a year on the bench for Clemens would benefit the team in the long run. But don't say what he is doing in the preseason is meaningless when the same could be said about Pennington, Ramsey & Bollinger
Chad's doesn't excel in his decision making. Everyone thinks because he's got a noodle arm and was almost a Rhodes scholar he's some sort of mastermind. Truth is, he makes plenty of dumb mistakes, just like any other QBs, but because of his noodle arm, he can't fire the ball downfield and have it picked off. I've seen Chad try to fit the ball in between 3 defenders to Chrebet on 3rd and long, and I always ask myself, why is our oh so great decision maker not making great decisions. I think with all his other weaknesses, people tend to overstate his strengths. At best, he's a good decision maker, not super, not horrible. With that said, I think Clemens has shown the most so far this pre-season, and even if he doesn't start day 1, I hope he will be by the middle-end of the season.
I was talking to my Dad over the weekend. He was questioning that the reason Chad may have been sent home was not just to see to his Dad, but to rest his shoulder from the hit he took in the first pre-season game. My Dad wondered if Chad aggrevated something.
With regard to Browning Nagle: You know you are throwing the ball too hard when players say, "I don't know what hurts worse, trying to catch one of Browning's passes or being tackled."
Summer of 1992, good times. Nirvana's "Lithium" comes to mind. I was pretty optimistic about Nagle, even after the first regular season game--in Atlanta, ironically. After that it was all down hill.
I can not believe what you just wrote. Your analysis is totally unfounded. There isn't an ounce of fact in it.
Remember Rick Terry? Parcells dumped Hugh Douglass and the Jets drafted Rick Terry. Terry led the 1998 preseason in sacks.. Jet fans were saying Hugh who? C'ya. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Or Leon Johnson, a 4th round pick, in 1997 in his first touch in the preseason opener against the Ravens taking a screen pass 60 yards for a TD. Meaning of preseason.. Colts are 0-2 extending their preseason losing streak to 6 after an 0-5 preseason last year.
isnt 5+2=7? theyre right next to eachother so it was probably just a typo. but your right some of these people should realize the preseason is far from any indicator of success
True. Leon Johnson was actually a good player for a couple of years, until he got hurt in the 1999 opener--same game as Vinny's achilles but obviously overshadowed. He came back with the Bears a few years later but was never the same. My friends in Chicago called him Slo-Mo Leo.
to me preseason is all about the bench and back up players. the better we do in preseason, the better our bench is. the bench always plays sooner or later as players get hurt or winded.
