Which NFL QB is Brian Johnson?

cougarkiller — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:06:04 -0000

First off a discloser, I’m not saying BJ is NFL type player I don’t in anyway expect him to be drafted or picked up by a Pro Team, but lately there has been a lot of criticism of Brian and it got me to thinking as to what NFL Quarterback Brian Johnson resembles most.

I think it is Eli Manning. They have a lot of similarities. Both of them had great expectations thrown upon them from the very start.

Eli being the son of a hall of famer, and younger brother to another great and future hall of famer Payton Manning was drafted by the New York Giants with expectations to turn the team around immediately.

Brian Johnson became the starter after Utah’s most successful quarterback of all time left for the NFL as a #1 pick. He was expected to continue and build upon the success of the past season.

Both were put into less than ideal situations that set them up fail rather than thrive as Eli had that task making New York great again, Brian to match the past seasons success without a lot of the talent and a new coaching staff.

Both Eli and Johnson didn’t live up to the expectations that had been set for them. Brian while creating a lot of offense was still only 5-5 as a started when he went down with an injury, and Eli was anything but spectacular in his first couple of years in New York.

Both have shown that they have great talent and are able to make great plays and tear teams apart when they are having an “on” game, but both have been known to make stupid mistakes, be it by throwing an INT by forcing a pass, or fumbling the ball away. They both have caused their respective fan bases heartache.

Last year Eli struggled early, but got it together late in the season as he rallied the Giants to a great finish where they earned a wildcard playoff birth and shocked everyone by making it to the Super Bowl beating the powerful Patriots.

This year Utah has come out of the gates quickly. We are 7-0 ranked 14/13 in the nation and setting themselves up for another banner year, with a possible MWC championship and BCS birth not only possible but at this point likely. Brian Johnson is still making mistakes; while his offensive totals aren’t anywhere near where they were before he got injured in 2005 his winning percentage is perfect on the year opposed to .500 record he posted his sophomore year.

Maybe like Eli Brian doesn’t have the stats that we would all like him to have, maybe he turns the ball over too much, but just like Eli found a way to win with the over powered Giants in the Super bowl, Brian has found a way for Utah to win every game this year, he might not go out and win them, but he manages that game and always puts Utah in a position to win the game and I fully expect for this trend to continue throughout the season. When the game is on the line there is no one I would rather have running our offense.

Kyle Whittingham: Code Name Quarterback Killer

cougarkiller — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:38:05 -0000

Kyle Whittingham: Code Name Quarterback Killer
If kyle whittingham was in a spy movie his secrect identity would be quarterback killer.

Kyle Whittingham: Code Name Quarterback Killer
If kyle whittingham was in a spy movie his secrect identity would be quarterback killer.
Is it just me or does Kyle whittngham have an amazing ablitly to totally destroy the confidence and career of every quarterback he encounters, here lets look at a few examples
Ratlif: BJ goes down at the end of Kyle's first season, we've only won five games and byu is all thats left, there goes the season over right, WRONG Rat gets the start down in zooby land, and he plays an amazing imspired game, leading Utah to an Overtime victory in a game that we weren't supposed to win. Then Against #24 Georgia Tech Rat gets his 2nd start, and leads Utah underdogs to a victory in the Emerald Bowl, here comes 2005 and everyone is full of excitement we can't wait for the season to start, because we know were going to start where we left off last season, Rat makes his 3rd start against UCLA in the Rose Bowl. Rat get's pulled mid way threw the 2nd quarter and replaced by Tommy Grady, Granted Rat wasn't doing the greatest, but it was only his third start EVER and the first of the season, he like everyone else had rust he needed to work through, but Whit didn't let him he pulled him.
To me there are two distintive phases Of Ratlif, The Pre-UCLA and Post-UCLA Pre-UCLA Rat had confidence, he went out there and made plays made big throws down feild, took some chances and won games he was the kind of quarterback that anyone would want, Post-UCLA after he got pulled stupidly in the UCLA game it looked as if Rat had his confidence shattere, he wasn't making the plays he used to, he was overthrowing recievers all over the place, i believe this was because he was scared of throwing a int. because of the coaches, and he was always looking over his sholder, playing on egg shells scared to make a mistake, that is no way to play football and it was all because of stupid coaching. Kyle didn't help out the situation either he was quoted as saying in a press confrence when asked about the struggles utah faced last year that "were playing with our #2 guy" who in the hell goes out in public and calls his started, the Guy that saved his job the year before his #2 guy what the Hell, and to make matters worse before the season he didn't name rat the started until about a week before the game, how can you not give it to the guy who got you your two biggest wins as a coach??? anyone

Ok thats enough about Rat, now lets move on to this year he Puts in the Freshman quarterback in against UCLA and he makes some huge plays running for first downs tossing a TD pass, absolutly wonderful play for a Freshman,fast forward to UNLV Kyle puts him in again, and he fumbles the ball, he comes off the feild never to go back in, True fumbling is always bad but give the kid a break he's a freshman playing in just his 2nd game you got to put him back in.

Now Tommy Grady, We all know what tommy is capiable of we saw it against ucla, but after struggling through the first half against unlv whit, decideds to bench grady and bring in the injured johnson, true tommy wasn't playing great, but can you name a player on the Utes who was playing good, with the exception of kicker luois sakoda? so Whit takes grady out at half and puts in BJ risking getting him injured before he fully heals, and totally destroying Grady's confidence, if BJ gets injured again this season which is very likely and Grady has to come back in how do you think he's going to preform, most likely he won't be making the big plays, he'll take sacks rather than risk throwing the ball, he will settle for short passes and not throw the bomb for fear of being taken out again basically its the same thing as Post-UCLA Rat

It is definently time to get rid of whittingham, before utah becomes qb killer U

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Which NFL QB is Brian Johnson?

Kyle Whittingham: Code Name Quarterback Killer