Quote:If its the right way why is it so rare?

Because coaches of players drafted that high are usually afraid to sit them. It makes it too easy for fans and GMs to get restless, and makes it much easier for the GM to go to the owner at the end of a disappointing year and argue that he should keep his job while the coach is fired, because the coach wasn't playing the guys the GM gave him.

 

If Bortles sits in 2014, then starts in 2015 and beyond and we make three or four deep playoff runs with him, maybe even win the big one, will you guys still be whining about him sitting out his first year.

 

We're also all assuming that he doesn't Russell Wilson his way into the job and just flat outplay Henne in camp.

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