Detroit Sports

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

What happened to Harrington?

A lot of people are blaming the Detroit Lions' three game losing streak on their starting quarterback Joey Harrington. A few weeks ago I posted about how good Harrington was playing this season.

Three weeks ago Harington threw for 255 yards and 2 touchdowns in a loss to Dallas. The week before last he threw for 269 yards on a 50 percent completion ratio in a loss to Washington. This past game was just terrible for Harrington. He threw for a horrid 121 yards and an interception on just 11-33 passing. A few of those passes where dropped balls but most of his passes were just plain ugly. He did have a horrible game this past week as I said, but I do not know if you can say that he should not be their starting quarterback already. I am a big Joey Harrington fan and I want him to succeed more than anything. This season was the year for Harrington to step it up and maybe besides one or two bad games; he has done a decent job. I do not think you already start to look for another quarterback. I am not making excuses for him but he has no running game and his receivers are thin. However, if he has another couple terrible games like he did this past week; then I think you can start looking for a better quarterback to replace him. We should all give him a few more games to see if he is really as bad as everyone makes him out to be.

Here are Joey Harrington's stats for the season.

Yards Passing:1684
Touchdowns:13
Interceptions:6
Completion Percentage:56.4
Quarterback Rating:81.3

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