Re: Why the Compulsion to Talk Up Quincy Carter?

"santolina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Here are his up to the minute stats:
>
> 386 att, 223 com, 2571 yds, 13 TD, 16 INT
> Passer rating  71.9
>
> By my calculations that puts him 26th in the league in passer rating.
>
> The fact is, Carter still sucks very badly as an NFL quarterback.  He's
> young and has time to improve, but the question remains why TV announcers
> still feel obligated to say how well they think he is playing, how much
they
> like him, as Simms did today, as Madden did a few weeks back, and so on.
>
> My best answers are:
>
> 1.  The tendency to overrate quarterbacks in general.
> 2.  The tendency to REALLY overrate quarterbacks on winning teams.  In the
> case of Dallas, their defense has been superb, while their offense has
shown
> only modest improvement.
> 3.  The reluctance of announcers to honestly evaluate players in real
time.
> 4.  The fact that Carter looked SO bad a couple of years ago, and was
> considered a huge reach in the draft, makes anything good he does now look
> that much better in comparison.

Perhaps:

5.  He plays for Dallas