Quote:Agree.  They haven't said so, I but it wouldn't surprise me if the McCown signing was intended to push Glennon without pressuring him.  Let him learn the new system (that McCown knows) as a backup and expect Glennon to be able to take over at some point... but not on an artificial timeline that so many unnecessarily impose.  Give him the time to prove whether or not he's part of the future, then draft a QB next year if you feel you need to.

 

Funny that the Vikings busted just about as badly or worse than we did the same year, but they don't get reamed for it like we do.

 

I remember the night of the draft some former player, I think it was Mark Schlereth from espn was hammering the vikings for drafting Christian Ponder. I mean he was calling him one of the worst QB's ever to be drafted. At the time I was wondering why and how he could be so critical of Ponder. If you remember Ponder had quite a following around these parts and many people wanted him as a Jag. Any ways it's funny to remember that now and think that dude was dead on, for some reason he knew it. However he didn't say a peep about Gabbert. I think Gabbert had a lot of people fooled. Until it was time to play. I think Ponder showed a few more flashes here and there and that's why he was given a little slack by some. 

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