Quote:That's not really point. The coaches certainly have more insight than fans, do they not?

I'd hope so. Doesn't mean everything they they do and say is right. They immediately said after they drafted him that they weren't going to do what the previous regime did with Gabbert and play him right away. So it was already determined what they wanted to do with him. I honestly think they didn't think he would have progressed as quickly as he has. You could tell with players like Manziel and Kaepernick that they needed seasoning and a year on the bench.


Tell me what he didn't do to show he isn't ready? Made almost every single throw you could ask for in those limited snaps. I don't care if it was vs vanilla defenses, they were big time NFL throws nobody has made for this team in a very long time. Looked off safeties and called audibles at the line that led to huge gains. There is only one way to learn how to do it against complex defenses. And that's by playing against them.


Playbook is the only reasonable reason for him to be sitting right now. And that'd be pretty worrying if he still hasn't mastered it yet. Some scouts i follow on twitter made it a point to say during the preseason how much better his footwork and mechanics are already than they were at UCF. Waiting on him to be an absolute finished product is just wasting time on letting him be game developed while the entire core of this franchise is on their cheap rookie contract.

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