In the right system with the right coordinator Jay could be every bit as successful as Jeff Garcia over in San Francisco. But he's not the type of quarterback that can work with marginal offensive talent, and a marginal offensive coordinator, and not end up trying to do too much and throwing stupid interceptions.
Quarterbacks like that DO exist. And Jay Fiedler's production over the last two years is not sound on a longterm basis (ie we didn't give him a longterm contract because we said to ourselves "well if he puts up the same numbers as the last two years every year, we're good to go!") We signed him longterm because we saw the potential in him to grow more as a quarterback and put up far better numbers if he's given some more offensive talent (lets face it before Chris Chambers and Ricky Williams, our offensive talent was not average, it was GOD AWEFUL) and a little better play-caller (Norv).
So in my opinion Jay is a guy that can help us win, and put up fairly good numbers with AVG nfl talent along the rest of the OL. Our talent before Chambers and Williams was not even average. Our signal caller could have been a little better as well (obviously...look at the results). In those conditions Jay threw for what he did. In better conditions, hopefully he will do better. And so far, he's showing that he can.
Its a very nice thing when you're putting up good numbers and running an offense well against teams who you should be putting good numbers up against. Its a sign that with better offensive weaponry, there IS room for improvement with Jay's play. And thats the situation we're facing. Weith the addition of Williams, emergence of McMichael and Chambers, we're faced with a situation where our weaponry is upgrading, and we're keeping hold of a QB who we know has a knack for winning, and who will not only win now that we have superior weaponry, but will put up superior numbers to boot.
