Anyone here willing to admit that Grossman played better than they thought he would?

[Oregonian]

Just curious.

There were some pretty dire predictions.

[akhhorus]

He played better than I thought he would, but he still played pretty badly when Dallas' defense gave a crap.

[BurgundyNGold]

I expected him to have 2 turnovers. He had 3. I also expected maybe 1 or 2 TD. He had 4. So, yeah, I think he played better than I expected.

But that's what you get with Rex. He's capable of putting up 3 or 4 TDs. But he's twice as likely to have 3 or 4 turnovers. Today, we got both from him. You will never win with him consistently, which makes him ultimately unplayable.

[Goskins11]

i will. i thought he would come out and stink it up. he did cost this team with his turnovers, but 4 td's.wow. thats exciting but thats excatly was rex is. he shows flashes of good but is crap most of the time.
I think the defense lost this game though.

[CNYSkinFan]

better then i thought but still in many senses cost us the game. Not just the ending INT but the two turnovers that led to 14 points by Dallas as well.

[fent]

He was better than expected, though the bad INT on the 5th pass attempt beat even my prediction of 8. He had some awful plays and some nice plays. He also had some awful floaters that ended up inexplicably turning into big plays. I'll give him credit for one good game, but when the game was on the line and the Cowboys actually dialed up a defensive scheme, he was downright awful.

[cal_junior]

He was much better than I thought he would be.

I expected something similar to McNabb's stats against Dallas:

15-30, 150 yards, 1TD, 1INT, plus maybe a fumble.

[akhhorus]

Originally Posted by BurgundyNGold

I expected him to have 2 turnovers. He had 3. I also expected maybe 1 or 2 TD. He had 4. So, yeah, I think he played better than I expected.

But that's what you get with Rex. He's capable of putting up 3 or 4 TDs. But he's twice as likely to have 3 or 4 turnovers. Today, we got both from him. You will never win with him consistently, which makes him ultimately unplayable.

Iron Pyrite.

[BIGREDSKINSFAN1963]

he played a whole lot better than i predicted,but in the end losing is losing,and the skins seem to find a way to do that!

[BurgundyNGold]

Originally Posted by Goskins11

i will. i thought he would come out and stink it up. he did cost this team with his turnovers, but 4 td's.wow. thats exciting but thats excatly was rex is. he shows flashes of good but is crap most of the time.
I think the defense lost this game though.

It's hard to make a counterargument when the defense gives up 33 points. Haslett sucks, that's the real story.

[justinskins]

I already ate some crow in the Grossman thread, but I might as well do it here as well. He played much, much better than I thought he would. Better than I think McNabb would have played had he started instead of Grossman. Benching McNabb looks like a pretty good decision to me after today's game. I'd lay this loss more at the feet of the defense than of the offense.

That being said, Grossman needs to cut down on the bad decisions if he really wants to start regularly in this league again. Especially egregious were the sacks he took during the penultimate Skins drive, which set up Dallas with great field position at a critical juncture, and the pick to seal the loss. My concern is that, at this point in his career, those bad decisions aren't going to change.

[CarMike]

Not me. I predicted he would play well.

LOL at the ones here that were so dire.

Let me add, he's not the future. But I thought he'd play well against dallass defense.

EDIT: Let me add. It's pretty funny to see BMitch act the way he is on ComCast. You can tell it is REALLY hurting him to see Grossman play the way he did today. It was nice to see no balls landing at the feet of our WRs for a change.

[BurgundyNGold]

Originally Posted by akhhorus

Iron Pyrite.

Yep. And the Shanahans are up at the courthouse filing a claim.

[FunBunch5]

The defense is getting a lot of blame for giving up 33 points as they should. Don't forget Rex's 2 turnovers put the defense in a bad position.

It is a bad combination that has a QB that likes to give the ball away with a defense that can't stop anybody.

I was defintely pleased with the 30 points and I think we win if Rex turns the ball over just once. Next year that Defense needs to be fixed and we need a starting QB with Rex as the backup.

[BurgundyNGold]

Originally Posted by justinskins

I already ate some crow in the Grossman thread, but I might as well do it here as well. He played much, much better than I thought he would. Better than I think McNabb would have played had he started instead of Grossman. Benching McNabb looks like a pretty good decision to me after today's game. I'd lay this loss more at the feet of the defense than of the offense.

That being said, Grossman needs to cut down on the bad decisions if he really wants to start regularly in this league again. Especially egregious were the sacks he took during the penultimate Skins drive, which set up Dallas with great field position at a critical juncture, and the pick to seal the loss. My concern is that, at this point in his career, those bad decisions aren't going to change.

Which, as I said when we signed him, makes him unplayable. He will always lose more games for you then he will win for you. He could have overcome the 14 points that his 2 turnovers produced and won the game. Instead, he took ill-advised sacks and threw a pick to end the game and seal the fact that his turnovers were the difference. In this way, he was classic Grossman today. But he was better than usual classic Grossman. He was platinum classic Grossman lol.