I knew we would see this the day after he had a nice day...How many back-ups/emergency guys have stepped up for a couple of weeks and looked like a world beater...It lasted until defenses figured out what he could and could not do..(probably didn't take long)...Couple of weeks of looking like a nobody again and getting beaten down like a red-headed stepchild, he returned to obscurity...It's not a new phenomenon.....I remember seeing a guy in a Piggly-Wiggly who could threw a tight spiral all the way across 4 aisles with a watermelon...Nice, but I didn't get all that excited... There's always another Kurt Warner out there, except that he's only Warner for a couple of weeks...If Keenum is a world beater for an extended period, good for him and sorry for the Rams...Until then, I'm not going to lose any sleep over losing him...One thing I'll never do is flog the Rams' head shed for letting him slip away...
Keenum didn't even look like a world beater. He had a 50.2 rating against Baltimore (only 10.6 points higher than the rating I would get if I went into an NFL game, spiked the ball, then immediately left the game) and 98.5 (not even 100) against the pathetic Jaguars. (Note both games were home games for the Texans as well)
Hill's ratings the past couple of weeks? 110.2 and 65.5. That's without names like Andre Johnson to pass to.
Sometimes, posters get stuck on one particular player, but Keenum has shown NOTHING to indicate that it was any kind of mistake to not sign him to the regular roster.
Could he become good later? Sure, possibly. But the odds that he's anything more than what he's been shown to be are increasingly remote.
Why go to the trouble of getting him off waivers just to be your PS QB for a few weeks? We could have kept Gilbert for that. I hope Snead and the scouts know how to evaluate QBs. It makes me wonder.
Because they thought he'd be a better #3 option than Gilbert. That's it. Turns out we never needed our #3.