good grief How can you forget a dude who had 108 fumbles and 148 interceptions in 119 starts for this team? OK, the surprise game-opening bomb was a pretty standard tactic for run-oriented playcallers. [34], However, in the 1998 season opener in Cincinnati, McNair exited the game with a bruised elbow. "He picks out secondary and tertiary receivers. WebPeople named Dave Krieg. Wide receiver Steve Largent had just emerged as the team's first true star. Pickett, an otherwise accomplished college player, measured out with some of the smallest hands in Combine history at 8.5 inches. JavaScript is disabled. Dave Krieg knows what its like to return from injury and lead the His final completion was to Mike Archie, done in the final quarter. 1 quarterback," Knox insisted in early September, adding that "Zorn has a better grasp of what we're trying to do offensively.". We're talking about this in-house. Krieg would feel his absence, throwing more interceptions (20) than touchdowns (15) in 1990. If you did a book of things like these from throughout the NFL's history (the hall of semi-interesting / semi-forgotten), I would absolutely buy it. Then a strike erased two months. WebThe official source for NFL news, video highlights, fantasy football, game-day coverage, schedules, stats, scores and more. Then he melted down in the Wildcard Game, leading to one of the all-time playoff beat-downs, and subsequently went back to being the Scott Mitchell we all know and love today. Despite Krieg's solid play, the visiting Lions lost narrowly to the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the playoffs. NFL Scouting Combine becomes a hands game - Chicago Sun Dave Krieg pic.twitter.com/wmVSmWf5oO "I wish I had an arm like John Elway but I don't," Krieg said in the same article. Football Outsiders content published by ESPN. "We just decided to make a change to hopefully get some spark in there and be able to make some plays we haven't been making," Knox said. That decision helped doom the Seahawks to several seasons of misery and mediocrity under a succession of uninspired quarterbacks. He backed up Montana in San Francisco, Elway in Denver, Young in Tampa, and Marino in Miami. Although the Seahawks managed only a 79 record, Krieg played well enough to earn a return trip to the Pro Bowl, where he performed impressively, helping lead the AFC to victory.[23]. He was the Seahawks quarterback coach for many years, had an ill-fated stint as head coach in Washington, and was last seen coaching the Seattle Dragons of the XFL. Knox resigned. "Dave was in the zone", McNair explained. But Patera did release Sam McCullum, a productive veteran receiver who also happened to be the Seahawks' union rep. Legal actions ensued. They crushed the eventual AFC champion Broncos 41-16 in the final game of the regular season (when Denver still had something to play for). With something weird NFL in rti but not sure if have desire anymroe. Seattle also beat the eventual Super Bowl champion Giants earlier in the season. Statistically, the 1994 season was the best of Krieg's career: Krieg completed 61.8% of his passes and threw 14 touchdowns versus only 3 interceptions, for a passer rating of 101.7. At that time, what was right was letting Dave stay in. Knox announced a quarterback change a few days later. Krieg suffered a thumb injury in the 1991 season opener, leading to even more Kemp and Stouffer. Seattle General Manager Tom Flores decided to retain Stouffer and McGwire, and to let Krieg become a free agent. ", We have come to the 1987 players strike. 907830E5-9AEB-4FD2-9C5E-5AFCA574DF26.jpeg. Krieg also became part owner of the af2's Green Bay Blizzard in 2007 along with former Green Bay Packer linebacker Brian Noble. WebDave Krieg profile, statistics and more. You would think that that wouldve precluded Brady from throwing 624 touchdowns and winning seven Super Bowls somewhere along the way. In reply to The other players profiled by Joey-Harringto. Dave Krieg | Seahawks Free agency was in its infancy, and he was the first in a long line of backups to get mega deals off the back of a few fill-in starts. They alternated pairs of wins and then losses the entire season (2-0, 2-2, 4-2, 4-4, etc. I really enjoyed that. The Seahawks were considered by many to be the preseason AFC favorites in 1987, but the Seahawks reverted to their more inconsistent form and ended up sneaking into the playoffs and losing in the wild-card round. See Photos. In 1994, Krieg signed with the Detroit Lions to back up Scott Mitchell. In reply to Pretty sure he was making fun of by paytonrules. But Krieg was now an in-demand veteran backup. In that start, he managed to throw two passes -- one incompletion and one interception -- before being sacked for a safety, and on that sack he broke his collarbone and was out for the year. After hovering around .500 forever for Knox and playing for Schottenheimer and Ryan, Krieg was destined to end up with Fisher. "How bad can it get if there are only 50 guys on the team and you're the seventh-best quarterback?" Neither Krieg nor the Chiefs must have noticed that anything much had changed. Patera was fired near the start of the strike. How much does Kenny Pickett's hand size actually matter? .or just me??? Krieg is the quarterback Fitzpatrick wishes he could be. Completed only 1 of 12 passes I remember Krieg beating out Sam Adkins for the #2 job, then replacing Zorn! Like Steve Young, his powers increased after escaping the Hugh Culverhouse Bucs, much like Superman getting away from Krypton's red dwarf star. Another high first-rounder (who was at least good in college) McGwire managed 3 INTs and 3 sacks (0 TDs) in his only start of the season. "He's got a big-league arm. See Photos. I remember reading in the Super Bowl 16 program (the first Super Bowl program my father bought for me as a kid; the 1981 season was also the first NFL season I followed closely), which always includes a season in review section on a week by week basis, that after the Seahawks won their second meeting with the Jets in the 1981 season that of their 34 wins in franchise history up to that point, 6 of them were against the Jets. WebThe idea is that small hands mean youre more likely to fumble when hit or lose your grip on the ball when passing in bad weather. He played through an era of rapid strategic, financial, and administrative transition across the NFL. (Chiefs safety Deron Cherry intercepted four of the passes). All-Pro Steve Largent missed several games because of a fractured elbow. We come to the Golden Example. Having lived near the Seattle mediasphere during Krieg's reign I really liked this piece. Mind you, thats without an offensive line. Seahawks Flashback: Mudbone shakes off Although he missed seven games with a separated shoulder, his excellent play helped propel the Seahawks to their first AFC West Division Championship. Dave Krieg. [31] Statistically, Krieg's performance was inconsistent: his passer rating ranged from subpar (4 games below 60) to mediocre (2 games in the 60s) to good (3 games in the 80s and 90s) to outstanding (3 games over 100). In Week 16, Krieg was benched and Stouffer got his first start of that season. That season, Seattle had a Sunday Night and Monday Night game in back to back weeks, both of which Stouffer started. Were supposed to forgetor even simply sidelinethoughts of how accurate of a passer a person is or how well they do under pressure. The Dolphins unfortunately wouldn't win another game, although the defense -par for the course- was more to blame for that than DeBerg or Mitchell, who came back to start the last couple of games. This logic certainly has some merit. After breaking his thumb in the season opener, Krieg missed six games in 1991. Krieg had four seasons with more than 3,000 yards passing and led the Seahawks to the playoffs four times. And he called plays using a shoulder mounted speaker system for a time as well. Thanks for this article - Dave Krieg was one of my favorite players - and I thought I was the only one who thought he was pretty great! You dont say! Thanks as always for the great write-up! Krieg's burden grew heavier in 1990, with the retirement of Largent and the continued decline of the offensive line and the running game. They were considered the hottest team in the AFC and possibly the NFL at the end of the season, but missed the playoffs at 10-6 due to tiebreakers. One final thought - both Jim Zorn (undrafted in 1975) and Steve DeBerg (10th round pick in 1977) were originally signed by the Cowboys as rookies but never took a regular season snap for Dallas. I really enjoyed this series about good but forgotten players that should be remembered. [28] Although Krieg had set Detroit Lions regular-season records for fewest passes intercepted (3) and highest passer rating (101.7), the team decided to stick with Mitchell and let Krieg become a free agent. I have actually walked on the campus of MILTON, not Ripon college, as well as Alma College in Michigan when my late father suggested that, just to be sure, should also look at small colleges not just the big land grant State schools. However, Krieg's pedestrian performance on the road in the playoffs contributed to the Seahawks' swift elimination at the hands of the top-seeded Cincinnati Bengals. ", https://www.footballoutsiders.com/almanac/historical-archive. But Fitzpatrick only finished in the top 10 in DVOA once, in 2018. Given the opportunity to play in the fourth game of his freshman season (1976), he completed four passesthree of them for touchdownsand continued to play well enough to start for the rest of his college career. And Krieg, the team's starter for a decade, was exposed to Plan B free agency, the rough 1980s equivalent of being a June 1 cap casualty. Please check your email for a confirmation. Krieg ran a power-I offense as a prep quarterback at D.C. Everest High School in Schofield, Wisconsin. Bizarrely, Seattle (6-10 in 1981) handed the 10-5-1 Jets their only two losses of the 1981 season after New York's 0-3 start.

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