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jonny5dicky:

For 2006 - - the year that Rex Grossman and the Bears made it to the Super Bowl - - here are some facts:


1. That was the ONLY year that Rex Grossman started all 16 games of a season. In every other season, he was either injured or benched for some of the games.

2. Even though I fully believe that the QB Rating scale is a flawed system, it can tell the difference between a "very good game" and a "very bad game". In the Super Bowl season, Rex had 8 very good games where his QB Rating was between 98.6 and 148. That is EXCELLENT!

3. In the same 2006 season, Rex had 6 horrendous games where his QB rating was between 0.0 and 36.8. [Point of reference: JaMarcus Russell on bad days had QB Ratings of about 40.] That is HORRID!


Those stats come from the Bears' Super Bowl Season; they are not cherry-picked from Rex's bad games going season-to-season or from the best games of his career.

My conclusion from that data:

At best, Rex Grossman is wildly inconsistent.

If you want to win those six games where his QB Rating is south of JaMarcus Russell territory, you had better have a dominating defense that can score points on its own AND hold opponents to 10-14 points on a regular basis.

In addition, it would be a very good idea to have a running attack that can give the defense some rest on those days when they are going to have to win the game...