Only a Matter of Time

When the lockout, training camp and preseason ended, somehow Rex Grossman had earned another full-time starting gig at the NFL level.
The competition, John Beck, was hardly a diamond in the rough -- more like iron piping -- having completed 55.7 percent of his passes for 676 yards and a touchdown against three picks in five years as a backup.
But Grossman?
Seriously?
Redskins coach Mike Shanahan perplexed many with his decision to go with the perennial puff pastry (turnover) over signing or trading for a better quarterback. Perhaps he figured Grossman could rekindle some of the luck most prominently demonstrated during his run with Chicago to Super Bowl XLI.
Shanahan looked like a genius at first.
Grossman threw for two scores and went without a turnover in a 28-14 Week 1 victory of New York. After looking halfway decent in a well fought 22-21 win over Arizona in Week 2 and a close loss to Dallas in Week 3, the real Grossman stood up.
Like an extra henchman in a Jason Statham flick trying to gun down the fleeing hero, Grossman began continuously missing his mark. He barely topped 50 percent in throwing two picks against the winless Rams Oct. 2 and followed it up with a vintage (by his standards) performance Sunday: 9-for-23, 143 yards and a 0:4 touchdown to interception ratio.
Beck came in to relieve the former first-round pick and helped Washington to a respectable, rather than humiliating, loss to the Eagles, 20-13.
Sports are games of averages, and for innately flawed individuals, like Grossman, it's only a matter of time before their perceived promise returns to realized handicaps.