"I'm not making excuses, but the season that stafford is a god awful failure is because of injuries"
I'm using the injury excuse for one game. We lost to you guys by what, 9 points on the road? Yet we were there the whole way to the last play of the game, like we've been every game except the Cardinals game. The Texans, Bears, Packers, Vikings etc. we were there till the end but bad luck combined with bad coaching decisions killed us.
At the end of the day most NFL personal would rather have Matthew Stafford, a pocket passer, not Colin Kape a option read QB at the helm.
QBs like Russel Wilson, Tebow and Kapernick have fluke seasons here and there, but pocket passers like Stafford, Brady, Rodgers are who win at the end of the day.
No troll, the solid seasons Kap and Wilson have had but those guys won't last long in this league. Kap is wildly inaccurate, and plays out of an option read offense, while Wilson is to short and has Doug Flutie luck syndrome (plus the option read offense).
Pocket passers like Stafford who throw for 10,000 yards in two seasons at 24 years old will last in this league.
We have one of the worst defenses due to injury, our #1 receiver has been hurt the majority of the year, our #1 TE gone for the year. We had to rely on two rookie QBs to win games, they were throwing to Santana Moss, Leonard Hankerson and Logan Paulsen for the majority of the year so don't bring that woe is me BS. You had a seasoned QB throwing to the best receiver since Jerry Rice. Honestly the reason your team sucks starts with your GM and coaching and goes all the way to you Stafford. There is nothing to suggest you are a player or two from competing with the Packers or even the lowly Bears. Your team needs a regime change and they need to clean house. You have some pieces but you are a long way away.
Thats why I hate using the injury "excuse". Every team gets the injury bug but despite you guys losing Santana you still have Garcon and Alfred Morris. We didn't have Nate Burleson, Titus Young, Pettigrew and Broyles due to numerous reasons. Injuries happen to all teams but I don't ever remember a team losing there #2, #3, #4 WR and #1 TE in NFL history.