NFL Power Rankings, Week 7: 49ers Creepin...

and Green Bay will turn it around and get healthy when they play the 49ers as well…that is their luck

Won the AFC West a couple of years back with 8-8 and then took out the Colts in the first round of the playoffs. I’d rather start 0-5 and finish 10-6 then start 5-0 and finish 10-6 to be honest. All you’re really doing is complaining about the franchise and saying if we go to the playoffs this year it was still a failure. I’d like to say you’re wrong.

I’d also like to point out that the Cardinals went to the superbowl with a 9-7 record and nearly won it.

The best we can do as fans is hope we win the rest of the games. It doesn’t matter what’s realistic, because we’re fans and we want to have hope and faith.

I’m not going to say Sam Bradford doesn’t have the most POTENTIAL in the division, but he hasn’t shown he’s the best quarterback. Lets look at Bradford, Smith, and Hasselbeck (no AZ QB-we know they’re the worst) thus far this season. All three QBs have thrown one more INT than TD. Bradford has 7 TD – 8 INT. Hasselbeck has the least INTs, but also least TDs with 5 TD – 6 INT. Smith is leading the division in TDs and INTs with 8 TD – 9 INT. My take? They’re all even here. They’re all pretty much performing the same in that aspect. Ok what about yards/comp%/average. Bradford is easily the worst with 133/234 (58.1%) for 1357 yards, and an ugly 5.8 average. Smith is 134/223 (60.1%) for 1425 yards, and 6.4 average. Hasselbeck is 102/166 (61.4%) for 1056 yards, and a 6.4 average. Hasselbeck has two rushing TDs on 30 yards with one fumble lost, and Smith has 43 rushing yards with 0 TDs and one fumble lost. Bradford has 18 yards rushing. Finally (and I know it’s a garbage stat) for QB rating Hasselbeck is 74.8, Smith is 73.9, and Bradford is 69.3. Lastly, lets look at the two most recent games from each player. Smith has 5 TDs to 2 INTs. Hasselbeck has 1 TD 1 INT. Bradford has 1 TD 2 INT. Smith has 505 yards, Hasselbeck has 413 yards, and Bradford has 413 yards. I don’t see a single statistic that Bradford beats ANY of the other QBs in…and overall I would take Alex Smith over the other two for the remainder of the season. At this point I believe it’s too early for anyone to tell how good Bradford is. Maybe he’s the next Peyton Manning. Maybe he’s the next Alex Smith. He definitely looks like he has potential, but maybe he’s the next Stafford and he has a glass shoulder. Nobody knows but I definitely do not think he’s the best QB in the division at this point in time….my vote goes to Alex Smith. He’s played good now two games in a row, which is more than the other QBs can say, and if he can play consistently at this level then he’s the best in the division. Stats don’t lie.

Also it might help that I was working and missed the first half vs Oakland…so as far as I could tell Smith played great. Again though, stats don’t like and I’ll take 200 yards with 2TDs and 0INTs over ANY performance Bradford or Hasselbeck has had this year (with the exception of Hasselbeck in week one vs 9ers).