ckparrothead
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vinivedivichi said:That's BS. I'm as upset about Gus's ineffectiveness as anybody else, but if Saban doesn't bench him that doesn't mean he's "Coaching scared." You don't know what Saban thinks. You are assuming that he knows that Sage is better, but is scared to play him?? I don't know any more thatn you do, but I am pretty sure that's not the case. As bad as Gus is playing, he's not killing us like our QB's did last year. I think that Saban is hesitant to put in Sage because he knows that those incompletions could easily turn into INT's with a more inexperienced QB.
I'm not defending Gus. If Saban benches him that's great, if not then we'll have to live with him. I just have a problem with you acting like you know exactly what's going on when you don't. Don't jump all over Saban for something he's not even guilty of.
No, I am not saying that Saban knows Rosenfels is better. If he knew that, he would already be playing. Coaching scared means going with the turd you know, instead of the guy you don't know. What I am saying is that I can guarantee you that Saban does NOT know whether or not Sage Rosenfels is a better game performer than Gus Frerotte.
To go with the guy that has been sucking badly just because you are afraid of rolling the dice on a guy whose success you can't necessarily predict, is COACHING SCARED. The bottom line is, when a guy sucks as badly as Gus has sucked for 7 straight games, you start finding out about those unknowns and that has absolutely nothing to do with "giving up on the season" and everything to do with "trying to win"
Giving up on the season would be putting a guy with little experience out there and living with his performance just for the sake of getting him experience in the hopes that he turns out to eventually be special. I'm not for that right now. I don't want to see Cleo Lemon out there. I think we have an insanely easy schedule, and I think it is time we find out whether or not Sage has what it takes for us to WIN NOW with him under center.
If you don't make an effort to find that out, you are coaching scared.