If the goal of not playing Blake is to help him improve his game will sitting him behind Chad actually do that?  Certainly Rodgers benefited from sitting behind Favre.  Rivers was probably helped out by sitting behind Brees.  So yes, I understand what they are thinking in wanting to sit him.  My question is does anyone in this organization actually equate what he can learn from Henne to what those men were able to learn from the likes of Favre and Brees? Heck, I would even understand it (and in fact I supported it as recently as last week) if Chad were playing good football and Blake was watching a functional offense to learn from.

 

The reality is that the offense is not functional.  I understand that 100% of the dysfunction can't be put on Chad but a number of sacks yesterday were due to Chad not throwing to the hot route or throwing away.  So our potential franchise QB is learning from someone who is not playing the position very well at the moment.  So why would you not want to give him a chance?  Yes, he might get hit if he can't get the ball out.  If it appears that he is going to get killed as badly as Chad then just pull him back out and put poor Chad back in to soak up the hits but for goodness sake at least put the kid in there to find out if the team plays better with him out there.

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