We knew that earlier this week that quarterback Rex Grossman was one of confidence, saying he hoped the Washington Redskins to win the NFC East this season. Friday night, Washington's preseason victory over the 16-7 Pittsburgh Steelers, Grossman played like a quarterback confidence. It looked cool and in control, playing the first half after a surprising offensive line is sound and 19 to-26 for 207 yards and a touchdown.
Now the first reaction is to say that Grossman has taken the lead over John Beck, who missed the game with a groin injury in the competition for the work of the Redskins starting quarterback. But I'm not sure it's that simple. Redskins coaches think Grossman can run your offense and if not better than, Donovan McNabb did in 2010. They believe that it is competent as can be, and nothing he did Friday night was nothing they did not already know about Grossman. The reason for this is a competition all, Mike Shanahan and Shanahan Kyle believes that Beck has more head and athletics. They want to see how he handles Beck against hostile competition, under the bright lights in a situation with something (ie, the job of starting quarterback) on the line. The groin injury that robbed them of the opportunity this week, and they hope to get it out next week so the competition can really begin.
What performance Grossman did Friday was perhaps allow the Shanahans to sleep a little easier. What I saw reinforced what I thought things would look like if it ended up going with Grossman. But as competition Grossman-Beck is concerned, I'm not sure it's really begun.
Jerricho Cotchery has played with the New York Jets for seven seasons, his career in the NFL. The six-foot pounds, 203, wide receiver has 41 receptions for 433 yards in the 2010 season. Cotchery averaged 10. 6 yards per carry and had two touchdowns in his final season with the Jets.
At week 20, the Jets lost to the Steelers 19-24-Jerricho Cotchery had five receptions for 33 yards. NFL Game Center has the points where Cotchery scored a touchdown for the Jets with only three minutes from time. That game was difficult for any Jets fan to see.
I do not understand why the Jets seem more interested in bringing different talents, while letting his players tried and true go to other teams. Braylon Edwards threw everything (notes) and have done the same to Cotchery. We should see a glimpse of how it is working on Monday, when the Jets face off against the Oilers.
The former Texas Tech running back who was drafted in the seventh round of the NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers broke his left anterior cruciate ligament during practice at St. Vincent College.
Their attitude was positive after the incident, not unlike the way it handles a variety of career-threatening injuries early in his college career.
"I probably should be devastated by the fact that he will not play my first season, but ... I'm not," he wrote in his blog Wednesday night batch. "After my season-ending injury my freshman year I promised myself I would never ask God why? Again and I'm not going to start now. It is during difficult times that are able to grow. I'm excited to hit another growth spurt. "
Batch played in six games in his first year at Tech in a 2006 before he broke his ankle. That injury was followed by a staph infection that caused him to undergo seven surgeries in two months and nearly derailed his football career.
