(01-03-2018, 07:43 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(01-03-2018, 05:12 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: As much flak as you get, this is actually a good point. Everyone claimed that his stats were exclusively from garbage time, but now they're saying he can't perform in garbage time. It's a big inconsistency.

You can't be serious with this, right? 
(edit: in retrospect - I don't remember you posting much during that span of time - so maybe you just missed most of that)

There were so many threads arguing the difference between "garbage time" and simply "playing from behind on the scoreboard" I would literally cut and paste my standard rebuke of the garbage time myth.  There were dozens more that agreed with me or posted similar rebuttals to that crap. Only the laziest in their "analysis" ran with the "it was all garbage time" narrative.

His problems and his stats weren't about the score.  They were about inaccuracy, poor fundamentals, and general inconsistency.
Just as they are now - only currently to a lesser degree.  

I mean, is it that hard for people to just accept that a young QB simply improved over time with better coaching? Plus the aid of a run game to ease the burden and a #1 defense to give him the ball back when he (or the offense in general) blows it?

Maybe you're taking me literally, and it appears that I said it that way. I know there were many conversations discussing this issue. When I said everyone, I meant that a lot of his detractors used his inflated yardage and said it was "garbage time" stats. I should be more clear, but my comment was directed toward the crowd of people strictly under the belief that he mainly produced during "garbage time", and his production should not be used as a reason to defend his performance since it was "garbage time".

In other words, I said everyone when I didn't mean to say everyone.

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