People act like Rex Grossman's a bad quarterback.
WRONG!
And I don't just say that because he's the reason I won my fantasy league... (Hello 130 dollors of pure rent-paying... [AAH! TODAYS'S THE THIRD!]).
The only reason people think Rex Grossman is bad is because he LOOKS BAD.
The reason his stats are inconsistent (BTW inconsistent means sometimes good, sometimes bad) is for one reason: He's a Gunslinger. He takes BIG RISKS. He's not overly careful like brad Johnson, who hasn't had an exciting season for his entire 35 year career... Rex has, in addition to some of the lowest game-day QB ratings of the season, some of the Highest game-day QB ratings of the season. And just like Joe Namath's when he won superbowl III, that mix makes his season-average look pretty lame. His critics say, he's lost some easy (read: meaningless games). Those games occured on the few days where his risks didn't pay off AND the defense couldn't win the game for him. This particular combination is not a very likely one, plus Rex has not shown himself as someone who can't win big games.
Unlike, say... Pay Ton Man I.N.G. Who's stigma as the NFL's golden boy has kept him from performing Michael J. Fox in Spin City style for the duration of his career.
Is Payton Manning a better quarterback than Grossman? Sure. And you would be too if you were throwing to Harison and Wayne. So it's not that the Colts don't have weapons... But as old-school style footballs rules that still apply tell us: two things win games...
1) A successful run game, which, thanks to Tom Jones and Cedric Benson, the Bears have had all season long (not to mention the Colts' swiss-chee run defence...)
2)...secondly and probably more importantly... uh DE FENCE! In addition to a squad who continues to be a D-Fence franchise , If anybody thinks that Brian Urlacher isn't the sickest Defensive player of our time, then that person has Alzheimer's.
I'm not even gonna mention the sickening special teams performance (Devon Hester for Prez!). Because that's not neceserrily what wins games like Defence and the Run... ...but it beats a sharp stick in the eye!
I'm not saying all this because back in Week 2 I predicted the Bears would be winning the superbowl (which was even before Rex Grossman started exploding onto the scene with the long bomb touchdowns that we all forget about because some of those long bomb risks got picked off during the season). I'm saying this because the Bears deserve a win possibly more than even the Saints and Payton Manning has an auto-erotic asphyxiation fetish.
And they suck.
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So what you're saying is: "Here's Why the Bears might win."
Just because Grossman has a few big games does not make him a good qb.
A "gunslinger" who has a bad average is a bad quarterback, there's not maybe there.
The quarterback, above any other position, has to be your most consistently strong performer. Rex Grossman certainly is not.
Just because Grossman has a few bad games does not make him a bad quarterback, and I have 130 bucks coming my way that proves it.
A gunslinger who has a mediocre average is only a bad quarterback if at the end of the season, the L's outnumber the W's, and NOT if they're in the superbowl.
Rex Grossman's performance, as all the facts continue to show, will almost never be poor enough to lose the game.
Sorry..
Four months after you wrote this, may I point out to you that "boring" Brad Johnson did win a super bowl, going through the Eagles in Philly to do so?
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