This weekend I had the opportunity to watch Sam Bradford live and in person. I have been hearing for weeks now just how good this kid is and how he is "something special". I don't see it, and that's not just because his success refutes my system QB theory. He threw about 90% of his passes between 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage and 5 yards past the line of scrimmage. The only time the Rams moved the ball at all was thanks to the slippery skills of Danny Amendola and Stephen Jackson. The Rams routinely looked to limit the Lions rush and the amount of the field that Bradford had to read by rolling him out. When asked to push the ball down field Bradford lost much of his famed accuracy.
In the end the guy throws more short passes than Joey Harrington and unless he learns how to read the whole field and connect on some deep passes his greatness will be measure by where he ranks among the great busts, not great QB's.
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