How long will kerry collins be out

I'm really excited to see that combination. I just could not think of a better guy to have with Jones right now. His brains, the kind of guy he is, I think that match will be just absolutely phenomenal. As a quarterback, Garrett played in 41 games with nine starts in a career that spanned from He made all of his starts with the Cowboys from His career totals included completions in attempts for 2, yards, 11 touchdowns and five interceptions.

Garrett played on two Super Bowl-winning teams in Dallas. In , Garrett joined the Giants and spent four seasons as a backup, primarily to Kerry Collins. He spent the season with Tampa Bay and Miami without appearing in a game. Garrett began coaching with the Dolphins the following year. One of my favorite people I've ever played with. He put great perspective on life, football, everything. He was able to really separate the two and keep everything in the proper perspective.

A guy who had been around, played a bunch, been on some great teams and really was a great sounding board for those kinds of things. He was extremely supportive. That was the thing about Jason. Just unfailingly supportive, a guy you could trust with anything and would help you with anything that was going on.

According to NFL Research, 31 quarterbacks have gone in their first two playoffs starts since and only brothers Eli and Peyton Manning went on to win a Super Bowl thereafter. As NFL. And, as coach John Harbaugh has already pointed out, Baltimore isn't going to sneak up or surprise anybody as it did last year.

Then again, Jackson's made a habit out of accomplishments never seen before. And while the Mannings are the only quarterbacks to have won Super Bowls after going in their first two playoff starts, five players all of them quarterbacks have won a Super Bowl following an MVP campaign. From 00 to 99, Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post recently named the best local athletes to wear each jersey number.

Numerically, Eli Manning was the first one to come up on his list. Who says no? He finished the day with yards, five touchdowns and two interceptions [11].

I would also argue that one of those interceptions wasn't his fault. On a jailbreak pressure, he attempted to check the ball down to running back Ron Dayne , who tipped the ball up in the air and it was caught by a well-placed Robert Tate. The other was an underthrown deep-pass into double coverage. Dumb, I know, but that's the thing about Collins, even when he was at his best, there were flaws.

Boy, I am not good at selling people on the idea that this guy needs a gold jacket. So, if I was to make a convincing argument that Collins was good, I might end the article there. Just put a bow on it. The End. Unfortunately, this story is far from over. I have more points to make and that requires talking about what happened after the Vikings went to bed.

It just wasn't the right day. Sometimes, you can catch a good team on a bad day and you can pull out a win. Well, the Baltimore Ravens , already a good team, caught the Giants on one of their worst days in history and cruised to a victory. The lone New York touchdown not even coming at the hands of Collins, but a special-teams return. Collins had a chance that day to prove everyone wrong once and for all, but sometimes it just doesn't break right for you or anyone else.

The Pennsylvania kid completed 38 percent of his passes for a meager yards and four interceptions. While opposing signal-caller Trent Dilfer went down as one of the worst quarterbacks to win a Super Bowl, Collins' performance that day simply went down as one of the worst.

For his sins, Collins made the cover of the following issue of Sports Illustrated. Ravens linebacker Jamie Sharper annihilating him behind the headline "Baltimore Bullies". Shortly after he retired in , Bill Pennington of the New York Times asked about that game while interviewing the player at his home in Nashville, Tennessee. Ed Valentine Editor of this site, man who laughed when I pitched this : "Well I think you're crazy if you really believe Kerry Collins has a chance of getting any support at all for the Hall of Fame.

I'm not even going to list all of the reasons why it's a ridiculous notion. Collins would end up in New York for three more seasons after that Super Bowl loss.

His best year in terms of statistical value came in , when he posted a franchise-record 4, yards passing, though, a quick exit in the Wild Card round at the hands of the San Francisco 49ers would be too much to overcome mentally. On the day, Collins put up yards and four touchdowns, only to lose with two field-goal attempts in the last 5 minutes producing zero points for the Giants [12].

It was the beginning of the end for Collins with the Giants. The following season, his numbers dropped off considerably. His yardage totals fell by nearly 25 percent and his interception rate increased dramatically to the extent that it was the first time since joining Big Blue that Collins' failed to throw more touchdowns than passes to the other team.

Things had soured since that loss to the 49ers. It's not a logical progression, but it's a real thing you could have observed. A recent example of such a thing would be the Giants - Jets game that spurned a Super Bowl for run for one team and a string of back-page punchlines for the other. Some refer to it as momentum, but I reserve that for positive connotations.

A more apt analogy was that the spirit was broken. Collins' Giants went in , prompting ownership to green-light a complete team rebuild. Shortly after New York replaced Fassel with Tom Coughlin and drafted Eli Manning , Collins packed his bags and went from one coast to another, signing with the silver and black Oakland Raiders , who too were also undergoing a rebuild.

Unlike the peaks of his time in New York, Collins' time as a Raider was a simple valley. In , he lead the league in interceptions, the second such time he had achieved this feat. A quote often mis-attributed to Albert Einstein states that the definition of insanity is repeating the same task over and over and expecting a different result. That should tell you all you need to know about my opinion of the Raiders as Good Ol' Kerry maintained the starting job the following season after Rich Gannon retired.

During his two years in California, Collins lead the Raiders to a disappointing record. His stock was at an all-time low after that. There is little upside to signing a veteran player who had three successive seasons of sub-par performances.

The market value just wasn't there and for a long while, it looked like yet another aging star had seen their career dissipate in Oakland Coliseum [13]. But when Billy Volek couldn't sustain a reasonable standard of play in the pre-season, the Tennessee Titans found themselves with a need for an experience signal-caller to pair with first-round rookie Vince Young.

Collins was the obvious choice. During his first two years in Tennessee, Collins was a ghost. He attempted less than passes while taking on the leadership role as a bench-warmer while Young took to the field. It was clear that the management wanted Young, who had cost the third overall pick in the draft, to gain experience on the field.

They knew what they had Collins, or they thought they did anyway. Young proved too immature for football on the professional level. His athleticism carried his game in college but wasn't enough to elevate him in the NFL. It took a while down south to catch on, but in the first game of , Young went down with an injury. Thirteen years after his first game, Kerry Collins was getting another shot.

Still, anyone who saw that game couldn't help but wonder if the Ravens had taken more than his helmet that day. I'd like to say I believed him. I don't think I was alone, either. Professional football is a game that allows even casual fans to indulge their gambler's expertise, endowing them all with a confident sense of the probabilities.

But you didn't have to be a professional handicapper to bet that Kerry Collins had run out of comebacks. What's more, who could have envisioned a comeback like this: seven seasons removed from that Super Bowl, after some lean years with the Giants and leaner still with the Raiders? Who'd have thought an aged backup would be the starter for the NFL 's only undefeated team, the Tennessee Titans?

Consider Polian's history. While general manager of the Buffalo Bills , the team went to four consecutive Super Bowls. While GM of an expansion team in Carolina , the Panthers went to the conference championship in only their second year. Ten seasons ago, Polian became president of the Colts. Indianapolis has been to the playoffs in eight of those years and won a Super Bowl. In other words, it's safe to stipulate that Polian qualifies among the best assessors of talent in league history.

Unlike the vast majority of sportswriters, gamblers, and fans, his endorsement means something. He can make every throw, and he's particularly accurate deep, as you saw. He was referring to a pair of Collins-to-Justin Gage touchdown strikes—56 and 38 yards—that enabled the Titans to come from behind and beat the Jaguars last Sunday. Collins, it's worth mentioning, has now thrown for 36, yards, 14th on the all-time list. But it wasn't just talent, or a live arm, that drew Polian's notice.

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