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Originally Posted by Kope
I wouldn't call it excuses untill the games count for something. Pre-season is the worst time for hyper-analysis.
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The fact that this is preseason doesn't change the way people are trying to defend Patrick Ramsey for his performance in Saturday's contest against Carolina. Exhibition games or not, excuses are still excuses. And this is not "hyper-analysis". It's calling it like it is: Patrick Ramsey, along with the rest of the starters could not advance the ball consistently, or score points against the Panther starters, nor the second teamers as Gibbs let them continue to play into the second quarter in a desperate attempt to get some semblance of a "drive" on which to build confidence.
And don't take this criticism to mean that I'm calling for Ramsey's head. Like you, I'm willing to give him the rest of the preseason, and 4 or 5 games into the regular season before letting someone else give it a shot.
But just the same, I'm not going to try to blow smoke up my own ass by saying that there were "plenty of positives" on Saturday's game, that it made me "confident", or go back to the disaster that was the 2004 season and say "wow, look what Ramsey did in the final five games!"