Not a great game for Blake today, but I'm not going to throw the towel in on him yet. He keeps impressing in pre-season. There is some talent in there somewhere, he just needs to learn to channel it in the regular season. It's not like giving up on Blaine because you realized his internal clock was absolutely destroyed and there was no coming back from that. He was drafted as a project, so I'll give him a little more leeway than the usual QB, while he continues to try to figure it all out.

 

That said, if at the end of the season Blake's still playing like he did today and it becomes obvious the team needs a new QB, I really, really, hope the team takes someone who actually knows how to play the position. I'm getting tired of taking these project QB's who are drafted high because they can throw the ball far, are tall, and look handsome "like a quarterback," who need "time to develop" and then promptly are thrown onto the field without any of that time to develop because no coach feels comfortable enough in their job security to leave a dud QB out there while "the future" learns how to play quarterback. It's pretty obvious if you're drafting high enough to take a franchise QB, your current QB isn't exactly all that good. But no one's going to risk their job, and food on their family's table, to keep playing a Chad Henne just so the GM (who is most likely safe) can draft his projects who he expects to be around after the current coach is fired for "not winning enough" with the useless placeholder QB. Exact same song and dance with the last 2 GM's in that regard.

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