Quote:I'm with everyone in that I  want to see BB5 start. However watching the Browns last night. I'm wondering if Dave & Gus vehemently

stated that Henne will be the starter to take as much pressure off of him as well as Bortles. Bortles just looks like the type of kid who is oblivious to pressure. Hoyer was awful last night

but I'm wondering if he is feeling some said pressure due to having the giant shadow of Johnny football looming ominously behind him.

Do you think Henne would have fell that same pressure if G&D made it a complete open competition?

 

Just pondering.. 

 

 

I look it like this. The pressure on Henne to perform as an NFL starting QB started back in April when the team decided to take Bortles with the number three overall pick. It actually started when he was only handed a two year contract extension. He knows he's a stop-gap QB right now at best. And in less he can pull Alex Smith like abilities out of his magic hat, his stock is not going to warrant much out on the open market in 2015.

 

They're both grown men. They're not foolish. It's business at the end of the day. Regardless of what Caldwell and Bradley have been saying, if Henne lays an egg in Detroit with the starters, and Bortles comes out and eats the starters alive with his one quarter of play. The QB controversy will begin from that point forward. The moment Henne starts us off at 0 - 3 strictly due to his poor play, the controversy starts there.

 

Hoyer isn't feeling any pressure. Hoyer is playing like Hoyer because that's who he is at this level. Manziel didn't just slip to Cleveland in round one for no reason as well. His maturity was raising red flags prior to the draft, and guess what? Not even into the regular season yet and this kid has done enough over the last four months to make you feel better if you were a GM pondering on whether or not to take him in RD1 already. Bortles got selected by us because of his skillset, growth potential, arm strength, and size. It made sense for us. And it's made Caldwell look smart so far.

 

I just don't think what Gus or Dave says though takes any pressure off of Henne or Bortles. It's not like it's not coming. It's not any different than any other cloud of doubt you'd find around the leauge in other camps right now with a QB battle going on. It can still go either way. I am still hoping Bortles sits this year though no matter what happens over the next two weeks.

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