Preseason Game 2 Ramsey Predictions

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I know why I'm still pulling for him.

I saw a QB who played pretty well down the stretch last season. Well enough that with some minor tweaks to the passing game, an improved OL and running game, he should be a very capable QB for us.

There's nothing wrong with being critical of him, I just think people are jumping the gun a bit. It's early, it's only August, and he didn't exactly stink up the joint against the Panthers. He has plenty of room to improve but he's alot closer to where he needs compared to the Ramsey we saw last preseason.

And then others want to say well he's a 4th year QB, he should be playing better.

Yeah he's a 4th year guy who has all of 23 starts under his belt, he's averaged a little over 7 starts per season so far. In comparison David Carr has 43 starts over that same time period. Joey Harrington has 44. I'm sorry but 23 starts over 3 seasons is not a ton of game experience for a young QB. Even though Carr and Harrington have over 20 more starts, Ramsey still has a better QB rating and TD to INT ratio.

Good point. And Carr and Harrington have had more stability and have KNOWN that they were the starter, whereas PR's position has been unstable since day 1. The other 2 have also been in pretty much the same system for more than 1 year in a row too. I agree totally with the assesment that PR has shown poise and spark in actual games, however and our offense definitely played better with him in the line up. Not a coincedence that our offense's improvement happened when he came in in week 10 last year.