Dexter - I think you and NSD are going the other extreme.
It's somewhere in the middle. Favre threw a pretty good game. He didn't make mistakes. Yes, Reggie got 3 sacks. Yes, Howard was amazing. But you can't discount those stats. They speak for themselves. Both SBs he played in, he outplayed the other QB by a lot.
Hitting someone in a perfect angle is a good thing. It's what made Montana's QB rating so high. Should we downplay Montana too?
"Dexter_Sinister" wrote:
I broke it down play by play once a while back, Favre dropped back to pass 20 times in the first half. I think it was 213 yards and 100 of it was in RAC. He completed 8, had 3 sacks, a 2 yard scramble and 8 incompletions. One incompletion was from inside our 20 and nearly picked off. It was the 4th possession or something. I don't have it written down so I am trying to remember.
Our D had a total of 5 sacks. Reggie, Santana and LeRoy. The field position was set up buy 4 picks and a great return game. Bledsoe was harried and pressured the whole game.
Favre had only 5 attempts to the WRs in the second half. Only 1 completion for 2 yards. I think his completion percentage went up because all the rest were dump off passes to TEs or RBs.
The only thing I can say is that starting 10 minutes into the second quarter, all he did was not fill his pants. 33 yards in 35 minutes of play.
2 pretty good throws in a game. I wouldn't call that throwing a good game.
I am not saying he sucked or was a waste of meat. Just that after those 2 catches where the WRs did most of the work, Favre didn't do much.
He is much more talented than he played in that game. He usually makes up for the mistakes with unbelievable performance. But he didn't this game. He made up for an insignificant performance by not having his few mistakes capitalized on. For which I give credit where it is due. To Holmgren.
Montana had a high completion percentage and low ints. RAC isn't the only reason he is better than Favre.
"zombieslayer" wrote: