(11-06-2019, 11:43 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: I've seen at least 12 posts that assume Minshew doesn't develop unless he's starting these remaining games.
Weird.

I wonder how many of these posters wanted this rookie or that rookie to learn on the bench their first season at some point in the past decade?  You know, groom the rookie for a year then he can replace his mentor?
Hell - much of this board was livid about Gabbert and Bortles being thrown into the fire too soon.

It's such a common and frequently discussed methodology that I'm flummoxed as to how it is just suddenly cast aside as unacceptable by so many posters??  The bench may actually be the best place for 15 right now. It's worked for a number of QBs over the years.

Yeah I don't get why people think sitting and watching Foles go to work won't help him (or at least won't be a hinderance)
A) Pressure is off him to "save the season"
2) He can go into film study and go over what Foles sees, does, etc
Z) Mahomes sat, Rodgers sat, Palmer sat, Smith sat, Rivers sat, Cutler sat.... and Minshew is a 6th round guy, there should be no pressure to start him right away, AND he's gotten some valuable game time already that he can use in the off season to know what to work on and what already is working.

Him sitting for 7 games isn't going to hinder his development at all.
There's no case of "oh if he started a full season as a rookie he would have developed better" anywhere that I can find.

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