I’ll take Jim Hart, Daryl Lamonica, Don Meredith, Elway, and Marino’s 48 TD year

Well, for one thing lets look at what his teams have been exactly.

Drafted in 2010 by the St.Louis Rams, a team that had the number one overall pick that year due to having a 1-15 record the year previously. That team then takes on Jeff Fisher (lol) as his head coach. He takes that 2010-2011 team to 7-9 his rookie year. Nice improvement and nothing to sniff at.

But then Jeff Fisher does Jeff Fisher things and goes “hey we got our QB, no need to address the offense anymore* and goes and uses all of his future draft capital to build up the Greg Williams schemed defense grabbing guys like Aaron Donald to man it. On a roster that had one of the worst receiving corps and offensive lines in football, coached by Jeff Fisher.

Sam does his best with his shitty supporting cast, but midway through his rookie contract he gets hurt. Tears his ACL, and his team then bombs around him.

Fisher and the coaching staff for the Rams say “Sam, we really need you. Were rushing you back earlier then we should and were going to gamble on your health” and they bring him back. Surprise, surprise, he tears the same ACL *again* and suddenly his career was put on pause by nearly two full seasons, stunting his development temporarily, and making his statline look way worse then he plays.

Because of Fisher’s own idiocy and the whole silliness in their front office, the Rams opt to move on from Sam, trading him to the Eagles for a pick and Nick Foles.

Now he is under Eagles, who, even with having a Receiver corp that lead the league in drops and shitty hands and a new Chip Kelly offense, he actually does pretty decent. PFF score of 85.2, or a low probowl quality performance.

But then Chip Kelly gets fired, Teddy Bridgewater gets hurt and he is suddenly traded to the Vikings two weeks less then the season start.

This is starting to look like a good situation. First time fully healthy in years, receivers who can actually catch a goddamn ball… Only his new team’s offensive line is snake bitten beyond belief, to the tune of eight different Tackles, and over twelve different offensive line combinations of personnel just to patch what was already a subpar line into a historically bad one.

And through *all* this adversity, he still lead the team to a non-losing record, and putting up a very respectable performance for a QB.

Oh, and one thing I forgot to mention? This is the first season in his six active NFL seasons (not from injury, basically) that he has had the same offensive coordinator in three years. The first *hint* of consistency.

And people wonder why he hasn’t performed up to where he was drafted.