I gotta agree with this. You watch how much time Brady has in the pocket and you still see him miss very makeable throws. I firmly believe Bradford could be a very good to great QB with some actual time to throw and a bit more time for the receivers to break free. Giving the receivers the opportunity to make double moves every now and then would be HUGE IMO.
^this....along with a consistant running game to keep the pass rush honest and playing from in front at least as much from behind.
For the love of anything I cannot figure out the anti Bradford stuff. He has done nothing to effect the team in a negative way. By all reports a hard working, respected, good team guy with a ton of natural talent.
Here is a fun game. Take the guys widely considered the games best (Brady, Manning, Rogers, Brees) and put them on the Browns, Bills or Cowboys....all of those teams would have a shot at the playoffs. Take the guys that are considered the "next generation", a list in which Bradford is never included (Kap, Wilson, RGKnee, Luck). Put those guys on those same bad teams and they would have almost no impact on their win totals, Luck being the only possible exception. Put Bradford on a good team like Seattle or SF where he could hand off 35 times a game, play from ahead all the time and just focus on not turning the ball over and he would lead them to the playoffs. Put him on a bad team like Cleveland or Buffalo and the results probably wouldnt change much. He is not elite. But he is also not overrated like the all hype guys in SF, Seattle and Washington. Some folks like to say some young QBs have come into the league and had "instant" success. For the most part there has been a ton of help for those guys with a complete team around them where they do not have to make plays week after week. Watching the NFC Championship game really pointed this out. Wilson was having trouble with very fundamental things, handoffs, a shotgun snap, not creating and then taking huge sacks. Kap was just terrible. When it came down to him actually have to make a play by the pass he was lost.
Frankly, I think he is very close to coming into his own. If Flacco can win a Superbowl Bradford certainly can as well.