Quote:Perhaps it was overboard and comical, as you put it, but it doesn't make it illogical.

 

If there was zero logic or substance to the enthusiasm over Bridgewater, and it was borne out of our desperation for a QB, then there would be a more random and possibly equal distribution of enthusiasm over various QB candidates.

 

It wouldn't matter if they could actually play QB at the NFL level, as long as they were QBs.  Some would still like Bridgewater.  Some would advocate Mettenberger...some would advocate Boyd.  Some would push for guys we never heard of.

 

Just as long as they played the position, they would have fans here.

 

But we all know that isn't true.

 

But that's just it.  There WERE threads about Mettenberger, Carr, Boyd, and even Aaron Murray.  As the season went on, the Bortles thread came up, and now seems prescient by comparison to the others.  The Bridgewater fans are the loudest and most vociferous, but it's hardly a unanimous and undivided campaign.  There may have been a dozen "Tank for Teddy" guys.  Some are borne from desperation, as you suggest, but others really seem to be latching to an agenda and driving it to the bitter end.

 

Forgive me if I found it a bit ..er... unseemly.  And boringly familiar, if you know what I mean.

 

The man is a good prospect, and I wish him well in his NFL career.  If we choose him, then I'll double that effort.  But "X-player or bust"...

 

There's always another way.  Always.

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