Throwdown":1a3y3ouq said:People really over exaggerate TJack's performance in 2011, and I'll never understand why. He wasn't that bad in anyway, he was just as good and sometimes better than the guy we had a year prior, check the stats, same record n everything.
I feel people underemphasise it actually - the running game was non-existent until we played the Cowboys, and Jackson went a 4-5 game stretch where he couldn't make any of the throws he was used to.
If the running game had played like that all 16 games we wouldn't have lost to Atlanta or Cleveland, and had Jackson's pec not been injured, we'd have challenged Cincinatti and Dallas for the win too. And if we're still in contention for the playoffs we probably don't lose to Arizona either, that was the very definition of a come-down game, having come so close against the Niners the week before (who were a fumbled punt return away from the Superbowl that year, remember). But everyone says Jackson could never lead a 10 win team?