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/zn/, the team had invested a ton into Bradford and if the kid could stay healthy perhaps he would have been worth his 19th ranked salary at that stage. But his success level and injury history wouldn't bear that out. Tough trade imo.

We know about the injury history. You;re writing a post to someone who complained about the trade. That ain't me. I never complained about the trade, I got the trade.

I also get the contract. Most don't.

Talking about Bradford is talking about history. Same as talking about Bulger. I just have a thing about having accurate discussions of history.

His performance history is, IMO, misunderstood by some Rams fans. But again...that's history.

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Now, if they get that special QB (and another top WR), remain league average healthy and still lose it's "off with his head".

Thanks for the reply, Hack. What if they don't get that special QB and another WR this year? How many more years would you give Fisher?

Houston drafted #1 overall 2 years ago and made the playoffs last year starting what? 5 different QB?
We don't need a resurrection of the GSOT to make the playoffs, we just need a modern day offense, something I just don't think Fisher can cultivate. I still don't understand what happened to his thinking in 2013. Spent the off season bringing in Cook, trading for Tavon, commiting to a more wide open passing attack. Then after 2 horrific losses, he scrapped it, putting the offense in a shell ever since.
Maybe the bringing in the new coaches will help, I don't know. Gotta figure with TGIII for a full season, the youthful o-line getting more experience under their belt, and mediocre QB play should get this team to 22ppg at a minimum

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Spent the off season bringing in Cook, trading for Tavon, commiting to a more wide open passing attack. Then after 2 horrific losses, he scrapped it, putting the offense in a shell ever since.

What happened ever since is that they have had nothing but back-up qbs plus one that melted down.

Searching all of NFL history for isolated examples of that working doesn't erase the trend IMO----you can't succeed doing that.

It terms of the offense they had early in 2013, I actually cast doubt on that before the season even started. I said they didn't have the receivers for it. They had either very green or mediocre receivers running a spread in an offense that depended heavily on sight adjustments from the WRs, and then on top of it---a back the entire league knew couldn't produce.

When they scrapped that, because it was born woe-begotten to begin with, and went back to a play action offense with a back who could get some yards, it all immediately improved.

You can even see it in the YPA and YPC.

1st 4 games (even with a strong opener against ARZ):

YPA passing: 5.9
YPC rushing: 2.5

Next 3 games:

YPA passing: 7.29
YPC rushing: 3.7

Stacy was a tough chains mover who mostly peformed in the 3.7-3.9 range, but that's still better than 2.5. The play action offense worked, until they lost the qb. And btw the 2nd set of games, the 3-game set, included games against 2 top 10 defenses.

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