Originally posted by WildBill:Originally posted by Canadian49er:Alex should be years ahead, 4 years to be exact, plus has been allowed to grow, by actually playing, but lets us be honest Davis has shown more than Alex has. Perhaps you should put down the madden controller. I'll be honest Nate is not ready yet. However, to say he blew the protection calls and its all on him is like blaming or giving to much credit for everything on the the president. First it is the center's responsibility for making the line adjustments. It is the QBs reposibility to know the protection and make adjustments if necessary, but if the other side disguises the defense it can be missed.
I think you should all stick to Madden
Nate blew protection calls and apparently does not have a good work ethic in the offseason...yet you want him to replace Alex as our starter because he threw the ball far on one play against 3rd stringers.
Say what you want about A.S. but he still light years ahead of Nate in terms of a complete game.
Put down the controller
Alex played a good game tonight, but he needs consistency. I guess not everyone was watching the game tonight, I had to tape it and watch it later so I could go rewind and see what happened. This is what I saw, 1st drive two catchable ball were dropped, one because dixon was looking to go upfield before he secured the ball and ginn turned and didn't expect the ball to get there that fast. But like the announcers for the game said those balls should have been caught. Then he ran but was short, dived to quick, his bad, but when you don't play in games, you will make those mistakes, key is he learns from them.
The throw that nailed Bynham, just slightly high(alex has thrown worst-and I am talking last year and this preseason) but it was catchable, just the defense was in good position, listen if you run a slant or something similar this is going to happen when receivers go over the middle, the problem if you the game again is that Saftey never cleared out of the error, so that means either the play was designed badly-rayes fault, or the other wr never made the safety bite and clear the area. I can't tell as they didn't show the whole field.
On the two mises in the end zone, ginn should have broken outside to the corner. The other was because the defense broke thru and he had to get rid of it. I'm surprised people don't also realize that the Vikes also knew that the niners want to look at Davis earlier, so that means they knew that when the niners put him in they were going to pass more.
I am not denying that I myself like Davis's potential, but I realize that he needs more seasoning. I want to give Alex a chance and see if he can do it, if not then give the next guy a chance, unless you get a Brady or a Brees in free agent, even drafting a guy high is not going to work and you have to wait the usual three years, majority of QBs are like that. They are all niners, so all you Davis Haters who I know are Alex backers are you so enamored with smith or threatened by Davis because he is a threat to your man crush?
Singletary is doing to Davis (giving him the cold shoulder) to light a fire under him like he did VD. Did you watch the game? Sing was miked and told him after the first series, its your time, its your time, make something happen, what does he do escapes being sacked after a dlineman breaks through from blown blocking assignment and lauches a 65 bomb on the run.
I will now step down from my high horse
Davis played well but he did alot of things that you guys would knock Alex on. Also on that bomb, he wasn't on the run. He did run first to avoid a sack, then set his feet and launched. An average fan would think he was on the run and especially someone that is rooting for one guy over the other would see it that way as well. Watch it again and you'll see, that he set his feet before he threw it.
[ Edited by baybreaker707 on Aug 23, 2010 at 9:31 AM ]
Plus he was largely inconsistent in preseason game #2. He had one big bomb he connected on. Other than that where was the consistency? There were plenty of bad throws in there.
He may not make the right reads or adjustments yet, but he was still able to improvise and move the offense yesterday. Unless Sing's trying to challenge or motivate Nate, I don't see a reason for such seemingly harsh criticism in the media.