john skelton is better than jimmy clausen

[Grammer]

who would have thought that would happen at the beginning of the year?

[Captain Obvious]

The list is mighty short for who is worse than Clausen.

[panthers55]

Skelton has some great drives against Dallas and threw the ball downfield. He definitely looked better this week.

[Udogg]

Who is worse than Clausen?

[MurkN]

Who is worse than Clausen?

That's a tough one. Maybe Garo Yepremian?

[mwright350]

Who is worse than Clausen?

It all depends on your frame of reference. If you're, say, John Fox the following are worse than Clausen:

~Matt Moore

~Armanti Edwards

~Tony Pike

~Brian St. Pierre

~Keith Null

I'll offer no opinion on whether any of them are or are not worse...just looking at the question from a less rational point of view

[Miaoww]

He's simply not. He was so, so, so bad against the Panthers.

[Urrymonster]

He's simply not. He was so, so, so bad against the Panthers.

There is no point in trying to argue this because people just d not want to hear it.

Jimmy Clausen is the single reason why our passing game has struggled and Gettis and LaFell are amazing prospects who are beyond struggling with what rookies normally do like running consistent routes. I mean, did you see that one single route that Gettis ran against SF

I mean come on, Skelton has no one in the passing game. It's not like they have a guy who just reached 8000 yards in their career by 27 (fastest since Moss). Nor another 1000 yard receiver who was thought of good enough to let a player like Boldin go...

Skelton was clearly the reason that game was won. Look at how he returned the two interceptions in the first quarter to put the Cardinals up by 14 and sacked Kitna twice in the same time frame.

His TD pass was an amazingly tough pas as well, threaded it between several defenders and put it in a place, all the whilst getting bombarded by Dallas players (there definitely wasn't a clear pocket for 4 seconds...). This was definitely better than the blown coverage play by Clausen to Stewart earlier this year, not similar at all.

He picked up 183 yards on just 11 throws. Let's ignore that 74 of them came on a blown coverage play where the player covering the receiver fell over, because that is not important. He still completed 44% of his passes afterall...

One thing is for certain. Skelton is immune to the fumbling the snap problems that Clausen has.

[Stroupe-a-loop]

How many games has Skelton started 2? Who cares?

[err456]

That's a tough one. Maybe Garo Yepremian?

Yeah he had small hands too.

[ladypanther]

The Cards beat Dallas? :rofl:

[BIGH2001]

He's simply not. He was so, so, so bad against the Panthers.

Just how bad was Skelton against Carolina? As bad statistically as Pickles has been over the course of the entire season. Here are the numbers.

Against the Panthers he completed 51.5 percent of his passes with no touchdowns and an interception and a fumble.

For the season Pickles has completed 51.9 percent of his passes with 2 touchdowns and 8 interceptions and 8 fumbles.

How was his performance against the Panthers in his second start any different than what we have seen from Pickles after playing over half the season. Face it, Pickles is "so, so, so bad" by your own comparison but you can't see that because you are blinded by your own bias.

[Stroupe-a-loop]

You people know you could bring up Colt McCoy and it would make a lot more sense right? Closer number of starts and a similar draft stock. Why not make that argument instead? Nobody cares about John Skelton.

[Captain Obvious]

Luck. There now the thread is complete.