Originally posted by phinphanphrommi
I do not think that just saying that Jay sucks is going to accomplish anything. I, like many here I'm sure, am on the fence about Jay... it seems that every time I am ready to write Jay off, he as a "good game" which is rather frustrating. While I do not hate Jay, nor love him for that matter, I find that being on the fence about your most vital postion on the offense is not the most desireable of situations. I will not bother with stats... stats do lie in a sense, as they can be manipulated to support any statement that could possibly be made about Jay. Instead I base my opinion that Jay should be benched on the fact that he has only showed me enough ability to have me riding the fence. Would Griese or Sage do a better job? I don't know, neither do you... But, are we already relying completely on the D to win games for us? Yes. What is the harm in benching Fiedler? Will we loose that game-winning drive that the QB is providing us? Um... what game-winning drive? Blame Mare all you want... if we had a QB that could win games for us... we wouldn't need to wing it on Mare's foot. As good as our D is, we can't rely on them as heavily as we have. They gave us 10 of 13 points... 14 if the offense could have executed. If we put Griese in... maybe opposing D's will honor our passing game, and lead to better o-line play (both pass and run). All in all, I know what I'm getting with Jay, and I'm not sure it is enough to get the job done... Change needs to occur on this Offense... and I think the position that we have the best depth at is QB, so why not start there. If our backups stink up the joint, it shouldn't be any different for the D to have to win the game for us, now should it? Okay... I'm done ranting. Honest.