His problems can be fixed with mastery of the playbook, relaxing under pressure and just over time with experience in general. He out performed his value as a rookie. 4 - 4 as a starter is a solid return on a 6th RD pick. As far as the offensive line being bottom five (read only a few posts from page 1 on here) it's a give and take thing. Technically one really bad whiffed block cost us Foles within what? 1 Qt. of football?

I have seen some games this year though where QB's like Mason Rudolph (TNF against CLE prime example), Kyler Murray, Jameis Winston & Daniel Jones have had their [BLEEP] absolutely handed to them. Some of it was on them. A LOT of it was on piss poor pass protection.

I agree that most QB's won't see 5+ seconds in the pocket. And a lot of guys, including Minshew, will tend to dance around and try to make something happen. Josh Allen does it in BUF. Russell Wilson does it in SEA. Aaron Rodgers does it in GB.

That's one aspect of Minshew's game that you DON'T want to restrict or lose. But he does need to get better at taking what the defense gives him sometimes. And he does need to work on settling his feet inside the pocket and not looking at his first read and maybe second read before deciding to dance around. My primary concern is just the long term staying power for this coaching staff. Tomorrow decides the rest of the year IMHO. Foles either light's it up or gets lit up.

It's never good for a team's development when you see coaches come and go. It's especially never good for a young QB's development. We've seen a lot of promising QB's lose momentum due to those changes happening year in and year out.

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