Quote:You might consider looking at the game logs over the past 2 seasons to see who was throwing the ball in the games where Shorts had his best production. 

 

Henne's production as a starter was significantly better than Gabbert's over the last 2 years, and Shorts benefited from that quite a bit.  Granted, Henne made boneheaded mistakes as well, but he wasn't nearly as awful as Gabbert.

 

Receivers can't develop if there isn't at least a competent QB throwing them the ball.  Henne is capable of putting up decent stats. 

 

So you don't get it, either.

 

Stats aren't development.

 

Guys don't suddenly "develop". Guys are developing over long stretches of time. Cecil developed just fine even though he was playing with someone as bad as Gabbert.

 

Demarius Thomas up in Denver developed just fine even though he was playing with Tebow and when a real QB came in he was already developed and ready to produce.

 

It doesn't matter if a guy has low stats. A decent GM can tell who is good, who is getting better, and which end of the passing game problems occur on.

 

So, I'm not afraid of a player "not developing" because we have a bad QB in the game, I'm more concerned with trying to get a better QB.

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