[CBFF] (no subject)

[Steve Behrens]

On 11/13/07, Westmalle van 't vat <westmalle at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On 11/13/07 6:34 AM, "mom2iancal" <senzigx4 at charter.net> wrote:
>
> > Say what you will about Rex Grossman, but the Bears offense has an added
> > dimension when he's under center. His arm strength gives defenses
> something to
> > defend that they don't have to worry about with Brian Griese.
>
> But Rex giveth, Rex taketh away.  What he adds in terms of deep threat, I
> think he subtracts in his work in the pocket and his tendency to cave
> under
> pressure.  I believe it was Rex's second drive that the Raider D brought
> all
> sorts of pressure and got two sacks.  That has got to be the formula
> against
> Rex.  Still.  Rattle his cage until he throws it away.


But don't you have to look at that as a success for Rex?  There was no
way he was going to get away from those sacks, and he took a shot or two,
yet I'd say he held his composure well.  So that may still be the formula
opponents are going to game plan for, but there's hope, from what I saw in
the Raider game,  that Rex may be a bit harder to rattle from here on out.



Still.  For unlike Jim and some others here, I thought Rex was only a throw
> or two away from chucking a ball into double or triple coverage for an
> INT.
> It just so happens Berrian got a great step on the coverage, so it was for
> a
> TD instead.  Wonderful for Rex.  Wonderful for the Bears.  Wonderful for
> us.
> A win is a win.


But it didn't happen, so you can't lay that on him.


But with my hat duly and genuinely tipped to Mr. Grossman, it still looks to
> me that it was merely a fortuitous turn of events that kept Rex from
> getting
> a couple of those pressure INTs.  If he had started the game, who knows.
>

None of us 'knows'..   we can only go by what happened with the opportunity
he was presented.  Though he was still a little rusty, I feel he showed
composure where there would have been little to none before the benching.
He showed his rocket arm where one is questionable with Greise. And he
showed that the team rallies around him unlike any other QB on the team.

Lost in all this is still the fact that he's in only his second full season
and I don't think anyone would expect the learning curve to have been
completed at this point in his career.  I also remember reading somewhere
(or here it somewhere) that Rex had show mental collapses in college, and
every time he was yanked because of it, he came back with a vengeance.

Is there really any harm in letting him go for the rest of the season to
find out one way or the other?


-Behr