Post by Danchat on Mar 16, 2019 15:23:40 GMT -6
The offseason is messing with yo brain, bro. Teddy had one good long pass or one good long drive (or was it one good quarter...I fergit, but it wasn't much, and it was against scrubs) in the 2016 preaseason. Sloter has been pretty consistently good, also against scrubs. Not enough evidence in the latter, but plenty in the former because he also had 30-whatever regular season games to show his quarterbacking brilliance. And I know you know this, you're just being too fair because you thankfully haven't seen him play lately.
Well then, let's pull up the raw stats:
Bridgewater Preseason 2016: 18/23 (78.3%) 253/2/0 (yards/TDs/ints) 11 Y/A (5 completions over 20 yards, 1 completion over 40)
Sloter Preseason 2017: 31/43 (72.1%) 413/3/0, 9.6 Y/A
Sloter Preseason 2018: 41/56 (73.2%) 366/4/0, 6.5 Y/A, rushing 33/1 (yards/TDs)
Sloter's numbers do look better, and he did have a bigger sample size. But I believe you are incorrect about Teddy's play being against scrubs, he was playing against 1st team defenses from what I can remember. I do believe the Chargers had their 1st team defense on the field for the full first half of preseason game 3, where Teddy made most (16, so says the game log) of his throws. And yes, I somehow still remember this, I was at that game. (Clearly I've wasted too much of my memory banks on football... )
Perhaps I am being too fair to Teddy, but I think we should be fair to all QBs (like Kyle Sloter!). I don't think he's going to be a franchise QB anymore, but he doesn't suck like Ponder did, a comparison many like to make.