is going to have a really hard time. He is going to throw for at least three picks a game, and if they don’t start running the ball more he may take five sacks a game. Hopefully we will see some of those flashes I mentioned earlier from him though. We are stuck with Freeman for the rest of this season and probably all of next season as a starter right now, so all we can do is hope for the best.

If he doesnt do half of those things, he is going to be fantastic. He will also throw some nice ones, and some good TDs hopefully too.

It takes years to tell if a QB (or a coach) is good or not.

a good tight end like Winslow can make a lot of guys look good. Winslow is a great TE when he decides to show up.

I guess he showed some promise but he never really wowed me the way I thought he would. He is an average passer that makes below average reads right now. I was hoping he would amaze me with his athleticism but he never really did. If he could have duplicated that run he had in the preseason then I would have liked to see more, but Freeman is in there now I guess it is a moot point.

for sure, but they were also all working against Leftwich, and he had more success. I just don’t see the purpose in letting a 3rd string QB start over the kid we are being asked to put all our hopes and dreams into.

I took a handful of quarterbacks, the prodigal sons (the Mannings), Favre, Hasselback, and two start immediately rookies (Flacco and Sanchez). Through their first four games, JJ is right in the ball park.

Josh Johnson – 59 for 115 (51.3%) for 649 yards, 4 TD 8 INT
Peyton Manning – 81 for 146 (55.48%) 992 yards, 3 TD, 11 INT
Eli Manning – 39 for 101 (38.61%) 450 yards, 1 TD, 6 INT
Brett Favre – 87 for 132 (65.91%) 933 yards, 4TD, 2 INT
Matt Hasselback – 50 for 114 (51.75%) 637 yards, 2 TD, 3 INT
Joe Flacco – 62 for 106 (58.49%) 603 yards, 1 TD, 4 INT
Mark Sanchez – 63 for 110 (57.27%) 744 yards, 4 TD, 5 INT

Now this is just a small sampling, but I took each players first 4 starts, since that’s all we have to go on with JJ. Outside of Favre, he’s in the ballpark. All of these players made bad decisions early on, it’s what young quarterbacks do.

Does this mean JJ is the next Peyton Manning? Absolutely not. But you can’t write someone off after 4 games. If so, the two Mannings, Sanchez, Flacco, and Hasselback would have been given the heave-ho. Everyone is trying to evaluate JJ on a small sample size.

You are right about one thing, he will be a career back up at this rate. Only being given 4.25 games to show what you have on one of the worst teams in recent NFL memory gave him about a .076% chance to succeed. Tack on the playcalling and drops and that number plummets to .036%.

I have no qualms with saying JJ hasn’t lit the world on fire or needs to improve, but to just push him aside and say he sucks and can’t play is an over reaction. I’d say most of the QB’s on this list have turned out alright, although we don’t know about Flacco and Sanchez yet.

told him not to run. Thats why he seemed so awkward against New England as opposed to past 3 games. They told him to just stay in the pocket and push the ball down field as much as possible. [which was why he seemed to just keep throwing deep] Its also why he would look like he was gonna run and then hed just throw it.

I know they were spying him with a LB too but I think it was more do to the coaches telling him not to.