BR1986FB;1642238 wrote:Oh yeah, he did say a third, and not so encouraging thing, the QB's looked absolutely brutal. Said Hoyer threw two picks in the red zone and JFF looked terrible.
Not the biggest surprise, really. I think the thing about the QB race, IMO, is that it's between two guys who can be "trap" guys for fans.
First, with Hoyer, you have the no-name journeyman type who was a super-sub last year, giving you the best play of any options and, until he went down to injury, was keeping you in contention for .500 or better. But it seems so commonplace for guys like that to completely flop as a starter. Like when during the Couch-Holcomb wars when Holcomb led you into the playoffs against the Steelers and seemed to have no trouble putting up 300+ (definitely didn't against Pittsburgh, at least). And then became the starter and utterly sucked the next year with a lot of those 13-25, 120, 1-2 sort of games.
Then, with JFF, you have the hotshot rookie with a lot of potential. Which is great and all, but doesn't win games early on when he's trying to find the ropes, especially when not in an ideal "ball manager/hand the ball off" situation. I mean, it's great comedic stuff and all to see Foot and Iqqy constantly singing his praises, calling him a future top-of-the-line HoFer and acting like every second he isn't the locked-down starter for life is the worst thing that's ever happened in the history of humanity, but man, it takes patience, especially when they aren't walking into a tailor-made ideal situation. Which could be even less ideal depending on how the whole Gordon thing gets settled, assuming it ever does, since I didn't think it was possible for something to take longer for a judgement to be rendered.
