Agreed. Tuna and company don't subscribe to the theory of throwing the young QB to the wolves. It will be whomever gives us the best chance to win and not waste a season. If Beck is ready then he is ready and if not Hello McCown as starter. The guy who may be sitting for a while is Henne as he may end up being Parcell's project (like Romo). See the correlation;
Simms in NY (eventhough Parcells did not draft him he at least he figured out quickly Scott Bruno was no answer for them)
Bledsoe in NE
Romo in Dallas
And of course with the Slime it was time to go with the proven vet given the situation as that team had more holes than even the Patties in '93 and were recovering from Kotite. Tuna knows what qbs are needed to win.
Parcells has basically very little history with high draft picks as young qb's. He only had one other qb drafted in the first two rounds by his regime and he started him as a rookie. He already had a 25year old 4th round pick that had started 4 games the previous year and a journeyman qb named Scott Secules that he signed as a free agent. Bledsoe started as a rookie.
I dont see the correlation you are referring to. Romo was an undrafted free agent so of course they did not just put him into the starting rotation. I cant think of no undrafted free agent qb's that were being prepared to be a starting qb thier first year. What highly drafted qb's was Bill Parcells having to sit and learn? Comparing Henne being developed like Romo is so far from accurate because Henne has already taken reps with the first team and Romo as a rookie was not even close to that.
Lets look at Parcells history as he started with each team
With the Giants
He started 26 year old Brunner over 29 year old Simms. Had drafted Hofsteller in the third round.
Simms was in the league 4 years to this point
Brunner was in the league 3 years to this point
Neither guy had been impressive to this point. Ao this situation is trult nothing like ours in any way. He did not develop a young guy to be a starter at any point really.
With the Patriots
Drew Bledose was a rookie first round pick
Scott Zolok was a carryover from previous regime that was drafted in 4th round and started 4 games the previous year
Scott Secules was a journeyman backup qb that was now with his thirs team. Not the same as our situation but the one most closely resembling ours. Drew Bledsoe was the starter as a rookie and stayed that way.
With the Jets
Did not draft one young qb
Had holdover free agent Neil O donnel 31 years old
and two lowly regarded younger qb's in Glenn Foley and Ray Lucas.
The following year aquired old war horse Vinnie Testerverde
Then the following year aquired Rich Mirer. So this blue print is so far from our own you might as well just take it out of the conversation. He made no effort to draft a young qb.
With the Cowboys
He aquired a team with two fairly young qb;s in Quincy Carter and Chad Hutchinson. He went with Quincy Carter who started every game his first season in Dallas(Parcells first season). This year they also signed Romo as an undrafted free agent, definately not the normal route to find your future starter, this was not a move that Parcells was thinking hmm I will sit him a few years and he will be my starter lol.
To further my point the next year he traded a third round pick for Drew Henson and signed the ever older Vinnie Testerverde to play qb.Henson actually started the Thankgiving game his rookie year to not so good results. The next season Henson was sent to NFL Europe to work on his game. In 2005 they then aquired Drew Bledsoe to play qb and Henson was beat out by Romo to play backup qb.In 2006 in the fourth game Romo became the starter. The Dallas scenario is nothing like ours and its obvious that Parcells really hoped aned thought that Henson would be his Qb of the future. Romo was not groomed to be a starting qb in the NFL from day one and kind of became that player by hard work and default at one point. So looking at parcells past really doesnt help to sort out our qb situation at all. If we are to look at his history than I guess McCown is the starter this year although his only history of drafting a qb relatively high would point to Henne being the starter. Nothing in his history really suggests that Beck would be his starter although Beck has in reality a good chance to be the starter.
If Parcells does not believe in starting young qb's and does not want to throw them to the wolves so to say then McCown is our starter because Beck is still just a second year qb with limited experience and Henne is a rookie. There are 2 flaws with this arguement though. 1-Sparano is the coach of the team 2- All three qb's have worked with the first team and have been named as being in competition.
