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Gus Is The Only QB In The League....

to start against the Lions this year and NOT record a career-high passer rating. The 6 (six!) other QB's that have faced the Lions have come away from the game with a new career-high rating.

It is significant to note that the other 6 QB's are all in either their first or 2nd year of starting, so they didn't have many game ratings to do better than.

While this is a sad piece of trivia for the Lions' defense, I can't help but feel this also reflects a little on the ineptitude of Childress' offense.

And while it can be said that Gus has started many a game, so for him to post a career-high would be much harder (especially because his career-high was a near-perfect 157.2 when he led our Vikings over the 49ers in 2003), it is worth noting that Gus' rating in the Detroit game was an 83.0, and all of the other QB's had at least a 110 (I think). And remember that all of these QBs are in their first or 2nd year of starting.

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Life with out Brad.

Everything reflects on the ineptitude of the offense. Eastern Illinois was 1-10 in 1977. In 1978 Brad went back to Illinois as a graduate assistant and Eastern won the Division II National Championship.

by ChiVipacli on Oct 29, 2008 2:04 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

LOL funny stuff there.

It's never just a game when you're winning. - George Carlin

by DennardC on Oct 29, 2008 3:48 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ugh. Maybe the Lions defense, you know, showed up for that game? This is the NFL. Upsets happen any given Sunday. These are all pros. I don’t think the fact that Gus didn’t post a 100+ QB rating is Childress’ fault entirely either. There’s room for improvement, but honestly, I think people are getting too busy picking at little things to try and show how terrible he is. He did throw some interceptions in that game, after all. That’s not Childress’ fault. And we had fumbles in the red zone. The offensive scheme was getting the job done, the players were just being sloppy.

by Frost on Oct 29, 2008 5:40 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

oh yeah, i agree with you. i wasn’t necessarily trying to hand-pick random stats to make childress look bad. my original point was that the lions’ defense is dreadful. but then i began thinking, if rookie qb’s can look like hall-of-famers against them, why can’t gus? i don’t think it’s completely due to gus’ decisions/ability. it hink it also has to do with the uninventiveness of the offensive plan.

by yanksrule08 on Oct 30, 2008 8:36 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Whew, okay good, ’cause that stuff is getting ridiculous. Hate him, but at least be reasonable about it.

Anyways, yeah, you’re right. If I made it sound like I was blaming all Gus, I didn’t mean to. It wasn’t just Gus and/or the offensive scheme for that game, unfortanetly. It was, more of less, the whole defense. The O-line gave up 4 sacks, and the Lions had only gotten an average of 1 a game before that. So it was just a comedy of errors.

by Frost on Oct 30, 2008 12:07 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

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