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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
His arm hasn't always been as shitty as it is this year has it? Did the second shoulder surgery do him in or am I misremembering how good he seemed a few years ago? This season, I think I would have been able to get the ball to receivers harder than he did.
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It cannot always have been as shitty as it was this year. The reason I believe this is not based on my own recollection of his performances (when has he not been injured?), which is suspect at the best of times, but because I have been told by reliable sources that he looked like a promising quarterback at one time. And although I am not from Texas and know little about football, I understand one of the things a quarterback needs is an arm strong enough to throw a fucking ball that doesn't hang in the air like a soap bubble over the hopeful, upturned face of a completely immobile receiver, who is praying that it will reach him while there is still enough of him left on the field to catch it, and finally floats gently to the ground only to land on a bare patch of dirt several feet from where the medical team is collecting bloodied shoes, a helmet and other personal effects from a steaming pile of human wreckage the likes of which Cormack McCarthy couldn't imagine even in his most deeply troubled nightmares.
I think it was the shoulder surgery.
