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Mariota Game Winning Drives or Game Sealing Drives


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This is why, even with his struggles this season, I don't understand why some are ready to give up on him. Besides the natural ability he has shown throughout his career, he's proven he can come through in pressure situations.

For comparisons sake, here's the fourth quarter comebacks and game winning drives in the Titans career of McNair/Young/Locker/Mariota

McNair(11 years)-14 fourth quarter comebacks/20 GW drives

Young(5 years)-fourth quarter comebacks/12 GW drives

Locker(4 years)-fourth quarter comeback/GW drives

Mariota(3 years and counting)-fourth quarter comebacks/GW drives

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4 hours ago, TitanSlim said:

This is why, even with his struggles this season, I don't understand why some are ready to give up on him. Besides the natural ability he has shown throughout his career, he's proven he can come through in pressure situations.

For comparisons sake, here's the fourth quarter comebacks and game winning drives in the Titans career of McNair/Young/Locker/Mariota

McNair(11 years)-14 fourth quarter comebacks/20 GW drives

Young(5 years)-fourth quarter comebacks/12 GW drives

Locker(4 years)-fourth quarter comeback/GW drives

Mariota(3 years and counting)-fourth quarter comebacks/GW drives

Because people are fickle and impatient.  They want instant greatness in a bottle, with no trials or tribulations.  Mariota's taking heat and blaming himself, but they fail to understand that his struggles are due to him trying to make garbage work.  Yes, he is in a funk right now.  All QBs go through it at one time or another and nobody's denying that.  The system itself is actually sound in it's own respect, but it's being rendered useless by an incompetent OC with horrendous play-calling and poor scheming.  Once Marcus is clear of this cloud of stubbornness, he should progress as expected, and all the bootleg fans will start loving and praising him again.

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Nice to see Packer fans aren't the only fans with unrealistic expectations for players/coaches/GMs.  When Josh McCown, Jay Cutler, Tyrod Taylor, Trevor Sieman, Deshone Kizer, Joe Flacco, Blaine Gabbert, Tom Savage and Jacoby Brissett are starting quarterbacks in the league, you don't prepare to move on from Mariota. 

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6 hours ago, Dionysus said:

Because people are fickle and impatient.  They want instant greatness in a bottle, with no trials or tribulations.  Mariota's taking heat and blaming himself, but they fail to understand that his struggles are due to him trying to make garbage work.  Yes, he is in a funk right now.  All QBs go through it at one time or another and nobody's denying that.  The system itself is actually sound in it's own respect, but it's being rendered useless by an incompetent OC with horrendous play-calling and poor scheming.  Once Marcus is clear of this cloud of stubbornness, he should progress as expected, and all the bootleg fans will start loving and praising him again.

But the fact is, he's talented, and has been advertised as a superstar QB in the making ever since he entered the league. So yeah, that's going to raise expectations, and whether rightfully or not, there are going to be some eyebrows raised when he fails to live up to those expectations for as long of a stretch. Furthermore, he's about to finish his third year as an NFL quarterback. It's not like he's a rookie still adjusting to the league, so naturally the patience will start to run thin, at least for some. There's a lot to be said about the play calling, but it's just as true that Marcus' own play has hurt the team this year just as much. And there's a lot not to like about the way he failed to improve his mechanics. Now, sure, injuries have affected him, although I'd argue that's another serious red flag that I think people aren't paying enough attention to, and it could turn out eventually that he's just talented enough and motivated as a person to overcome them and develop into what people know/think he could be, but right now those concerns still exist. And I don't think acknowledging them for what they are is such an outrageous thing to do.

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