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Re: Len & the Draft by Bill Dungsroman 04/19/2005, 7:38pm PDT
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

Apparently, Trent Dilfer's lone season with the Ravens defined the right place and right time. He was caretaker of a no-frills offense that basically just had to stay out of the way of one of the NFL's most dominating defensive units of all time. Some people feel that Trent Reznor, the front man for Nine Inch Nails, could have presided just as adroitly over the rudimentary offense.


HA HA HA. How about Trent Lott? Terence Trent D'Arby? Jesus.

Non-football fans, right here is one of the quickest, easiest ways to tell if a football analyst is full of shit. Len takes in no more information regarding pro football than your average football fan, and this is proof. Here's why:

"Caretaker of a no-frill's offense." That offense, prior to Dilfer's involvement (and to be fair, history has been showing more and more that it was Dilfer's fault in great part for Tampa Bay's offensive struggles, as Dungy evidently doesn't try to control his QBs as once thought), could not score a fucking offensive touchdown, period. Nice that it won games on figgies and defensive TDs alone, sure. That's no way to keep winning games, and the Ravens were just hanging in there in the playoff hunt. They didn't catapult into them firmly and confidently until Dilfer took over. And that offense, even before Dilfer took over, was not no-frills. It was full of deep-pass routes, which is why the QB roster featured not just Dilfer but Tony Banks as well, the dude Dilfer supplanted. Banks, like Jeff Fucking George, only gets QB jobs because of his cannon arm. Head Coach Brian Billick got this job from being an offensive mastermind for the Vikings. Dilfer didn't just manage the offense; he stretched the field more than competently, he moved the fucking ball, and he united that scattershot offense for the first time in the franchise's short history. Shannon Sharpe praised Dilfer until the day he retired, with good reason. Letting Dilfer go after the Super Bowl was the dumbest fucking personnel move the Ravens have ever made.

Could any ol' QB have started the Super Bowl and won with the Ravens? Yes; the Giants' D petered out, mostly due to exhaustion since the offense could not stay on the field to save its life. They won on defensive TDs alone. However, they would not have made it to The Show without Dilfer. History wants to paint the Ravens as unstoppable defensive juggernauts. They didn't go 16-0, you know. They got beat. It's rare that a team with an imbalanced roster makes it to the Super Bowl. Offenses or defenses can get them to the playoffs, but both sides will be tested there. And most especially, the QB will be tested. I've always said that in most cases, the combined skill of the entire team for both Super Bowl teams will be roughly equal unless someone sneaks in (like the '98 Falcons, but my opinion still holds), and so the determining factors will be the ability of the QB and/or the coach. Bucs/Raiders showed you what a stupid coach will get you, Cowboys/Steelers showed you what a stupid QB will get you, and this last Super Bowl showed you what an edge in coaching and QB ability will get you. Kerry Collins wilted but Dilfer held it together the whole time in that Super Bowl, after they both held it together in the playoffs.

Let's put it this way: does anyone really think the Ravens would have gone to and won the Super Bowl with Tony Banks?
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