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Isn't Clausen supposed to be playin his Senior year of college right now?


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considering this team has roughly the same mean aggregate talent as a decent college team, it's as if he never left.

bs. This team is loaded with talent. It's missing experience and lacking in coaching in some areas.

Talent and youth are two things this team actually has.

The problem in the NFL is that talent alone rarely wins games.

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considering this team has roughly the same mean aggregate talent as a decent college team, it's as if he never left.

I get tired of comments like this....there is 1 position on a football team that can drastically effect the look and perception of a team QB. A QB make a team look horrific when the rest of the team as a whole really isn't that bad.

See Jake Delhomme in 2009. Was that team bad or was the QB play causing the team to be bad. Moore came in and provide stable QB play and they dramatically looked different.

Bottom line is this team HAS a good defense, they have a great running game and they have a top tier WR. QB play can make all that irrelevent. People continue to act like the OL is garbage.....but they can not pass/run block w/ 10 defenders in the box consisitantly. Defenses are able to do that b/c of the QB (and that includes the play of both guys).

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We have weak opponents this year?

Peyton Manning had a tough schedule his rookie year....check out his division.

New York Jets 12 4

Miami Dolphins 10 6

Buffalo Bills 10 6

New England Patriots 9 7

Indianapolis Colts 3 13

NFC is weak this year. Manning had tougher opponents than we will see this year. Peyton also threw at least 1 TD in 15 of his 16 starts. People need to leave Manning out of this Jimmy talk. Peyton ain't got nothing to do w/ Jimmy.

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