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[QUOTE="Archbold44, post: 5538178, member: 10528"]
THIS.  If you have a pitcher who throws 100 MPH, but has no control... are they a starting pitcher or a relief pitcher?  You need your starting pitcher to manage several innings of a game. There have been guys like Nolan Ryan who were K/BB heavy, but usually a guy like Don Sutton or Greg Maddux is the guy that has the long career as a SP.  Sometimes it is better to induce a groundball DP vs. trying to blow the fastball past a guy who can catch up to it.  Sometimes it is better to keep the batter guessing with your precision placement vs. relying on just a fastball.

QB is kind of the same way.  Our system runs best when the QB is getting everyone involved because defenses cannot key on anyone.  Maybe that check down to the TE does not get a big gain, but it keeps the defense honest.  The next pass might be a crossing route where the LB has to cheat over to the TE side.  The successful screen pass can move the ball to the other side of the field, get some RB the ball in space, etc. Throwing to 3 WRs gets them all in the game and running tight routes.  We have seen this via McCord and Angeli.  It MUST be Nixon's system.  It is NOT a system for just a strong arm.

Fran's comments are perplexing.  It is insulting to Rickie and it kind of supports what we see... strong arm, but issues between the ears as to What decisions/execution.  Not sure I would appreciate the indirect arm criticism if I was Carney.  Meanwhile, it makes the calls for Carney grow.  Why wouldn't we start the most intelligent QB we have after watching 3 games of the big arm failing.  Sometimes it is better to say nothing...
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