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Maybe, but Harbaughs quote has me thinking they want to see him actually play somewhere else in order to try and gain an advantage of having two qbs on the field at once.

I think it's a terrible idea for him to line up at other positions. Yes he is a great athlete but I don't think he has the body type to take the punishment of playing wr or rb.

So you're saying Tom Brady has a slow release too then because Allen's and Brady's are pretty much the same.

Go back and watch some film on these two guys. You will see they are not even remotely close to the same qb.

Terrible comparison.

He may not be the best player but his contract is quite manageable.

Impossible task. Brady is Brady and we may never see another guy like him. You have to realize Brady is not throwing the ball to his primary guy every play. He is coming up to the line diagnosing the defense and making the right call to get the ball to the right guy. If you could coach a guy to be like Brady there would be 32 Tom Brady's already in the league. It's just not as simple as saying "you see what Brady does just do that".

For me it's all about Allen panning out. If he is the guy this team will be extremely successful for the next 15 or so years. If he is not Beane And McDermott may be looking for new jobs. Full disclosure I fully trust the process.

Who are these qbs you speak of? Matt Cassel went on to have a couple fairly decent years in Kansas City. Jimmy G. tore it up in San Fran. So i believe that you can't say it was the system with these two guys because they went on to other teams with different systems and still continued the same success they had seen in New England. Plus if it truly were the system why wasnt Tim Tebow successful with McDaniels as his head coach in Denver?

I really find it hard to believe that the patriots practice much different then anyone else. The CBA limits teams so much anymore that everyone is basically doing the same thing in practice. The reason why the patriots are better than everyyone else is because they have Tom Brady playing the most important position on the field.

Every player in the NFL watches film. He is an exceptional talent. Most qbs in the league cannot do this. How does getting rid of the ball in under 2 seconds fix a guys mechanics?

Too many variables for me and it would just add another dimension to guys trying to cheat the system. At least the way it is now is black and white.

That's a terrible idea. You will have a boat load of guys come years end faking injuries just so they can take peds and gain an upper hand. It wouldn't be hard for a guy to get a Dr to sign off on a bogus injury either.

How do you get to your conclusion from what he said?

So true but this still doesn't make what he did acceptable and he is going to have to live with his actions.

I completely agree with that. I was just wondering if this is why people care about bad contracts.

I wonder if it has to do with the salary cap. If there were no salary cap and owners could spend as much money as they wanted would people still care about this? Or do they only care because of the cap. If a team signs a slug to a big contract then that hurts their team for the long term.

Kawann Short and his 17 million dollar cap hit is the reason they let him walk. No team in the league can afford to have over 25 million invested into their defensive tackles.

Bottom line is you picked out stats that mean nothing for shadys overall season. The stats I picked fall in line with tyrods overall season. Shady was top 5 for starting running backs where as tyrod was bottom 5 for starting qbs. The stats I picked for tyrod obviously are more of a norm for his career where as the stats you picked are an outlier for shadys career.

Will do thanks again

Ok thank you I was just wondering if there was a site with all the math done already just for a quick reference.

Not being snarky by asking this I'm just curious to where you found these stats from? They are super detailed and i2d like to take a deeper look into them.

Yet shady still finished 4th in yards. Don't just cherry pick numbers to help your argument. Look at the overall season. Nice try though.

Valid point. If a qb continues to make safe easy plays and not take a shot his qbr will be greatly inflated.

He attempted 80 less passes that year which would coincide with less yards and tds. His qbr however did go up.