We cant have it both ways man, that's what I realized. Stafford has a lot of Favre in him. He's just a gunslinger who has confidence in his arm to a degree most cant comprehend. He knows he can make every throw, and he wants to make the difficult throws. Thats the difference.
Dan Orlovsky highlighted this right after the trade went down a year ago- he said back in his Detroit days they were in a meeting in the QB room looking at some film of Stafford, and on a certain play there were two wide open WRs for intermediate gains, yet Stafford threw a 50 yard bomb into a tiny window for a competition. And Orlovsky asked him "dude wtf, why would you risk that throw when there's an obviously easier, safer throw for a guaranteed completion?" And Stafford replied, "because guys like you cant make that throw Dan." To me that just showed his mindset and how he feels he can attack defenses with his arm. Will it always work? No it wont, that gunslinger mentality will lead to INTs occasionally but that's just how this dude is wired.
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