geggytah

recall when RJ was starting and taking a sack every 6 pass attempts, the offensive line was much maligned for the poor pass protection. enter Flutie, and voila, our OL becomes much more than adequate...in fact i'd go as far as to say a team strength. now i don't want to spark a debate over DF and RJ, because this thread really has nothing to do with them other than for comparison's sake...but there is a point when a QB (RJ and now DB) gets that deer caught in the headlights look every time he drops back to pass. i'm not sure this "sickness" is curable. there has to be an aura of confidence and maybe a little cockiness from the QB position that says "I dare you to blitz cause i am gonna LIGHT YOU UP if you do." now i'm not saying Losman has THAT type of confidence, but he certainly has a lot of some kind of confidence. drew, on the other hand, can make all the throws IF the throws are there to make. he does not create throwing lanes nor does he dictate to defenses where he wants to go. JP Losman needs to lead this team ASAP. do i think he'll be succssful this year? no, probably not. but the sooner he gets his feet wet, the sooner he will be dictating to the defenses what they can and cannot do to him. look at the eagles right now. how do you stop that offense? you have to double TO every play. you have to account for lewis/smith at the TE spot. their 2 and 3 WR are fast and atheltic enough to make plays vs one on one coverage. westbrook may be the quickest back in the league. McNabb is the x-factor though. he will eat you alive from the pocket, on the rollout, OR running...AND he has a rediculous amount of confidence in every player on the field (including himself). we have players equal to or better than the philly skill postition players except for mcnabb. insert Losman...the sooner he gets on field experience, the sooner we have a mcnabb-esque QB. disclaimer: i know losman is not guarunteed to be a great or even solid QB year after year. i do know he has what DB doesn't...potential. we know drew is not the answer...we don't know what JP is/could be. after all that is said though, i hope drew proves me wrong in all of this and JP can sit back and learn.

the reason i like it is that the defense is spread out and it is EASIER to read where blitzes are coming from. the bad thing is that protection is even more of a question mark because of the lack of blockers to protect from blitzers. one more good thing...i'd like to see our 4th WR (shaw) match up against another teams 4th CB. that is a good matchup for us. i say try it...its not like a 2 back 1 TE set is working for us

nm

downloaded and actually impressed....no probs

2 syracuse players on the team!!! gotta believe mcnabb was a close miss too...so potentially 3 on the team.

or to take the heat off drew in case he stinks it up this year...i honestly don't hear any one of us calling for Travis Brown over bledsoe, but i could already hear whispers of calling for JP to start later in the season. now there is no controversy...way to go JP!!!