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I was making the exact same arguments for Griffin last week on here, while also stating that I am actually a Cowboys fan who just appreciates how good Griffin has been this year. It's kind of insulting to spent a lot of time arguing for Griffin, and going back through lots of guys that everyone tried to compare him to, Griese, Vick, Cutler, Plummer, Elway even, and coming up with (at least what I thought was) some pretty substantive stuff. Then I get on here and see my argument is just reworded by others and now you just take their word for how good he is. How deflating.....
I'm not claiming that I'm the first guy to recognize that Griffin has had a great year. Its just that I was the first to come to his defense after Doc claimed that Griffin "couldn't carry Wilson's jock" and I did so very thoroughly, addressing all of the complaints/questions about his ability.
Do you think the head coach who made the terrible! decision to keep him in the game would ever admit that his quarterbacks' throwing ability was deteriorated by his injury? Would Shanahan have the guts to say that he couldn't throw as effectively because he was hurt, but he left him in anyway? Of course he would never admit that. And neither would Griffin. Guys like him are trained and coached to play through pain, and to never make excuses for poor performance. It's the warrior mentality.
I mean if you're only takeaway from that game is that Griffin just isn't very good throwing the ball, and that it was in no way affected by his injury or the fact that he was playing a great defense, then we're not watching the same game.
And finally, just for some more statistical perspective (that seems to be my thing), here is Trent Dilfer's BEST year of his career. 1997, 4th year of his career, age 25. 56% comp, 21/11 td/int, 6.6 ypa, 83 rating. He has a career td/int ratio of 113/129, and 70 rating.
As for Jackson, he had so many partial seasons, that its hard to define his "best" year. The two years that he started more than 5 games he had a 71 rating in one and 79 in the other. He had a career 59% comp. 38/35 td/int, and 78 rating.
Every time names get thrown out there as comparisons or as just as likely to succeed in the same system candidates, they have all fallen well short of the stats that Griffin has produced. In his rookie season...