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Jedster
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Just read this.....what is everyone's thoughts? I am leaning more towards him being a headcase....but you never know....
at least we do have a guy on the roster with experience at that position. Its alot better than playing a rookie...
Wrong - our last first-time starters (Matt Flynn, Aaron Rodgers) developed in-house (like Brunell, Detmer, and all the others who went on to be NFL starters) proved that draft-and-develop is better and far cheaper than picking up a has-been. You already know a veteran cast-off is a failure, but you don't know yet regarding the young guys. Hopefully this was some weird ploy to put the heat on the quarterback battles behind Rodgers.
Wrong - our last first-time starters (Matt Flynn, Aaron Rodgers) developed in-house (like Brunell, Detmer, and all the others who went on to be NFL starters) proved that draft-and-develop is better and far cheaper than picking up a has-been. You already know a veteran cast-off is a failure, but you don't know yet regarding the young guys. Hopefully this was some weird ploy to put the heat on the quarterback battles behind Rodgers.
It didn't prove anything.
In that time, basically since Thompson came in, name the veteran cast-offs that were even given an opportunity to win the backup spot. I don't recall a single one. To have "proved" that, a cast-off would have had to have failed. All it shows is that we've been successful developing QB's.
Is Harrell going to be Flynn/Rodgers, or is he going to be Ingle Martin/Brian Brohm? Flynn and Rodgers had actually shown something in the preseason at some point. Harrell has not. I personally haven't felt comfortable with him as the backup, and neither nor Coleman filled me with confidence Saturday night.
For the record, Doug Pederson was a cast-off and a known failure...and he stuck around for a long time here as a backup. Young would be a veteran minimum insurance policy. I would have more confidence in him than Harrell at this point.
We could do a lot worse than Young as a backup. JaMarcus Russell, for example, as was repeatedly suggested on the other boards...
Is that legit? It looks Photoshopped (his head does).