There’s nothing special about Brock Oswieler
Brock Osweiler has been playing against a stacked deck, especially last weekend; if the offensive line was any better or if his receivers didn’t have a serious case of the “dropsies,” his numbers might look a whole lot better than they currently do.
In the end, though, he is the quarterback, and special quarterbacks find a way to make something out of nothing; just ask Cam Newton.
But so far, through four starts, Osweiler has been fairly average. Aside from a 2.1 performance against the Patriots in Week 12, Oswieler hasn’t scored higher than .3 (Sunday against the Raiders) and graded out with a -3.8 against the Chargers two weeks ago. If you want to compare that to Peyton Manning, which of course you do, Manning had three performances in which he graded out higher than Osweiler’s 2.1 — against the Lions (3.9), Packers (2.3) and Colts (4.2). Conversely, Manning’s -10.7 performance against the Chiefs is substantially worse than anything Brock has shown.
The point, though, is that Brock has yet to prove that he can carry this offense to new heights when the parts around him are struggling. At this moment, he’s not more than a game manager. And while that’s not necessarily a bad thing, it does limit this unit’s ceiling.
