02-23-2018, 02:22 AM
That article was written by a Teddy fanatic who's going to see what he wants to see.
It's tough to watch that video and equate it to anything positive.
"If you look at it sideways and bend your screen a little and for the second to last game pretend that the Vikings are wearing yellow pants... Teddy's deep balls are more accurate than any quarterback in history."
It's been two years, but I'm pretty sure that just about everyone agreed that Teddy's deep ball was less than good and his arm strength was a drawback. Surrounding all of the hope that he's going to get better is the lack of any realistic impression of how good he was when he got hurt. He wasn't good. He had potential. He had the same potential that Jackson and Ponder had, but something about the way he played gave us all the hope that he would be the one who actually lived up to it. His strengths were that he had good legs, but he kept his head up anyways. He was good making the decision to throw the ball away when it made sense. He made safe throws most of the time, but not so much that it was a problem. And he had a head on his shoulders smart enough that we were all comfortable that he'd eventually learn to be good at reading defenses. Most of us had some hope, but most of us were pretty wary of the 100 yard games too. Let's not put lipstick on a pig. He was a project that was hopefully going to come into his own.
At best on the Vikings he's a backup. And at least for 2018, he's not the kind of backup that Foles or Keenum turned out to be.
It's tough to watch that video and equate it to anything positive.
"If you look at it sideways and bend your screen a little and for the second to last game pretend that the Vikings are wearing yellow pants... Teddy's deep balls are more accurate than any quarterback in history."
It's been two years, but I'm pretty sure that just about everyone agreed that Teddy's deep ball was less than good and his arm strength was a drawback. Surrounding all of the hope that he's going to get better is the lack of any realistic impression of how good he was when he got hurt. He wasn't good. He had potential. He had the same potential that Jackson and Ponder had, but something about the way he played gave us all the hope that he would be the one who actually lived up to it. His strengths were that he had good legs, but he kept his head up anyways. He was good making the decision to throw the ball away when it made sense. He made safe throws most of the time, but not so much that it was a problem. And he had a head on his shoulders smart enough that we were all comfortable that he'd eventually learn to be good at reading defenses. Most of us had some hope, but most of us were pretty wary of the 100 yard games too. Let's not put lipstick on a pig. He was a project that was hopefully going to come into his own.
At best on the Vikings he's a backup. And at least for 2018, he's not the kind of backup that Foles or Keenum turned out to be.
