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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
Wasn’t that a **** up, too? They were supposed to be doing the piece on Gannon and he wasn’t there for some reason. They didn’t know the difference and just went with Grbac lol
I feel like there’s no way that’s true but would be hilarious if so.
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That's the story.
I don't have any ill-will towards Grbac. It's not his fault he was mediocre and honestly for the era, he was one of those pure pocket passers that wasn't bad at it. A poor man Bledsoe, if you will.
He was an average QB who played average QB here. In an era where we were still trying to win with average QBs and a dominant defense. The problem is that only the '97 team still had a great defense (it was tailing off) and he got hurt and the Broncos game happened. And he still played okay in that game - hell, we put as big a scare into the Broncos as anyone did on their way to the championship.
But Marcus was on fumes and it was a really weird gameplan of going underneath with the ball but NOT to Tony G. 7 targets the whole game? None in the first half and 4 of them came in the desperation drive at the end of the game.
I don't hold that eras failures against Grbac. Marty wears the goat horns, IMO - he just got weird in the post-season.