Chris Simms’ Final Regular Season NFL Team-by-Team Grades

January 3, 2017   ·   Chris Simms   ·   Jump to comments

I avoided the paper stack in my locker like it was a bad final report card. 
Because that’s exactly what it was. John Shoop, my quarterback coach with the Buccaneers back in the day, would drop off a collection of play sheets in our lockers with his handwritten thoughts scribbled over them. I knew what kind of end-of-year review awaited.
And I was right. We concluded a 5-11 season with the worst kind of loss—the kind where I screwed up a wide-open throw and it cost us a chance to close out 2004 the right way. Sure enough, Shoop had that screw-up circled with so many notes I almost punched our locker room wall.
I have a newfound level of respect for that man now that I’m the grader. It’s not just that he was honest enough to tell me the degree to which I sucked; Shoop actually went through every play to watch my flaws and make me a better player.
I’ve applied that same work ethic to my end-of-season NFL grades at Bleacher Report, wa...

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