Quote:You just have an outdated mindset.


The need to to put rookies on the field immediately went away with the rookie salary cap.


Teams are no longer under the type of financial pressure to get a quick return on the huge rookie salaries that were being handed out. The rookie salary cap also leaves enough space for teams to afford to sign a veteran player for the rookie to sit behind.


You pointed out how the game has changed since 1999 and it has, but you fail to realize it has also evolved past your sense of conventional wisdom. Patience has become a luxury that can once again be afforded.

This is the pure truth. Teams can focus on player development now because they don't have to give a player drafted 3rd overall 50 million guaranteed anymore. Teams can focus on drafting the player and not the position which comes with those lofty expectations.


Sam Bradford had to be played from day one because he was paid like Tom and Peyton were. In 2014 Bortles can sit because he's paid like a bottom third qb. Hugh difference in sitting that type of money on the bench for a year.

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