Post by MGB01 on Jun 8, 2005 23:27:20 GMT -5
One was the #1 overall selection, one was from the Johnny U school of quarterbacks (Louisville). Both were starting quarterbacks in the NFL, both far underperformed.
Sunday they both get to wipe the slate clean.
Tim Couch, the top pick taken overall in the 1999 NFL Draft, gets his shot at redemption in his first regular season start as a pro quarterback since the 2003 NFL season finale as he takes over for the ineffective Michael Bishop, who is off to a career-worst start with a passer rating of just 36.8, which is also his completion percentage. Couch draws the 2-0 Detroit Mustangs in his first start, the Mustangs having come off an emotional 28-27 win over the world champion Chicago Enforcers and some think the Mustangs could be headed for a letdown.
Chris Redman will be making his first start since midway through the 2002 NFL season when the Washington Glory travel down to Jacksonville for the back end of a two-game Florida road tilt. Joe Hamilton threw three interceptions in a 37-14 loss at Orlando last week and, like Bishop, is off to a horrid start, with just a 45.1 passer rating.
Both Bishop and Hamilton, who were 1-2 in passer rating at one point during the 2002 season, are bringing up the rear in that category this season. Hamilton has eight carries for 43 yards and a touchdown this season so he has at least produced somewhat offensively, but Hamilton, who is now under .500 as far as TD/INT ratio goes, has been one of the bigger enigmas in the XFL for the last two years running.
Lost in his opening-day heroics last year in a 43-36 win over Carolina where he threw five touchdown passes and ran for another is that his three first half interceptions put the Glory in a 23-7 hole to begin with. Hamilton also threw eight interceptions as the Glory lost their final three games of 2004 as the Glory nearly missed the playoffs.
Bishop, the co-MVP of the 2002 X-Bowl, has produced less in each of the three seasons since, coming to a head with last week's 12 of 39, 144-yard, three-interception performance as the Hitmen were swamped 46-0 by a Pittsburgh Ironmen team they had never lost to before.
Both Romeo Crennel and Ralph Friedgen have privately expressed concern over their respective seasons getting away, the Hitmen already off to an 0-2 start and the Glory at 1-1 facing a tough four-game stretch of Jacksonville, San Francisco, Birmingham, and Chicago--three of which, including the latter two--on the road.
Sunday they both get to wipe the slate clean.
Tim Couch, the top pick taken overall in the 1999 NFL Draft, gets his shot at redemption in his first regular season start as a pro quarterback since the 2003 NFL season finale as he takes over for the ineffective Michael Bishop, who is off to a career-worst start with a passer rating of just 36.8, which is also his completion percentage. Couch draws the 2-0 Detroit Mustangs in his first start, the Mustangs having come off an emotional 28-27 win over the world champion Chicago Enforcers and some think the Mustangs could be headed for a letdown.
Chris Redman will be making his first start since midway through the 2002 NFL season when the Washington Glory travel down to Jacksonville for the back end of a two-game Florida road tilt. Joe Hamilton threw three interceptions in a 37-14 loss at Orlando last week and, like Bishop, is off to a horrid start, with just a 45.1 passer rating.
Both Bishop and Hamilton, who were 1-2 in passer rating at one point during the 2002 season, are bringing up the rear in that category this season. Hamilton has eight carries for 43 yards and a touchdown this season so he has at least produced somewhat offensively, but Hamilton, who is now under .500 as far as TD/INT ratio goes, has been one of the bigger enigmas in the XFL for the last two years running.
Lost in his opening-day heroics last year in a 43-36 win over Carolina where he threw five touchdown passes and ran for another is that his three first half interceptions put the Glory in a 23-7 hole to begin with. Hamilton also threw eight interceptions as the Glory lost their final three games of 2004 as the Glory nearly missed the playoffs.
Bishop, the co-MVP of the 2002 X-Bowl, has produced less in each of the three seasons since, coming to a head with last week's 12 of 39, 144-yard, three-interception performance as the Hitmen were swamped 46-0 by a Pittsburgh Ironmen team they had never lost to before.
Both Romeo Crennel and Ralph Friedgen have privately expressed concern over their respective seasons getting away, the Hitmen already off to an 0-2 start and the Glory at 1-1 facing a tough four-game stretch of Jacksonville, San Francisco, Birmingham, and Chicago--three of which, including the latter two--on the road.