Feeley Should Start

[CanadaPhinsFan]

We already know what AJ is so stop kidding yourselves into believing he going to "develope" into anything but a 3rd string QB

We don't "know" that. You may think you know it, but it hasn't been proven. No he wasn't impressive last year, but not much about this team was. It may be your opinion, but it is not a fact.

 

[finfan54]

It's almost senseless to think gus is all of a sudden going to be anything other than what he's been his whole career. 12 years is a pretty good barometer of a player. Old dogs that learn new tricks are few and far between and gus is one old dog that's a couple of years away from being euthanized.

The Dolphins would simply be wasting any benefit we can get from this season by letting gus crash the bus.

Nothing Gus did last night was much his fault if you look at it from a team aspect. His teamates let him down more than he let any of them down. Offsides by Olinemen, missed snap by Mckinney cus he is so damn scared of Pitt D, and all the dropped balls right in their mits. All I know is Gus didnt throw an Int and others did. Feeley would throw way more INT's than gus and you can take that to the bank. Feeley with his dink and dunk would never win a ball game and as soon as he goes down field, you hold your collective breath. I still say Gus is the QB and Feeley stays on the sideline and learns to not lock onto recievers and throw the ball away when there is nothing. He still cannot do that although i did see once last night when he did.

 

[DolfanCole]

We already know what AJ is so stop kidding yourselves into believing he going to "develope" into anything but a 3rd string QB

I'm one to believe that he can develop more. He really doesn't have a lot of time under his belt from college and pros.

But, if you use that argument, we definitely know what Gus is capable of. He's been in the league far longer and has never really been anything more than a backup as well (yeah, he was a starter for the Deadskins a while back, but he beat out Heath Shuler -- 'nuff said).

 

[finfan54]

We already know what AJ is so stop kidding yourselves into believing he going to "develope" into anything but a 3rd string QB

I just do not think AJ has it upstairs. I think he's dippin into soccer chick too much.

 

[DolfanCole]

... Feeley with his dink and dunk would never win a ball game ...

I must disagree with you there. The dinks and dunks are high percentage passes and eat up clock time. I think a few West Coast offenses have won Super Bowls with a dink-and-dunk offense. And with the performance of the defense, it can win, IMO.

 

[DolfanCole]

I just do not think AJ has it upstairs. I think he's dippin into soccer chick too much.

Can you blame him? :D

 

[eddie4fins]

We don't "know" that. You may think you know it, but it hasn't been proven. No he wasn't impressive last year, but not much about this team was. It may be your opinion, but it is not a fact.

Never said it was a fact, and if he developes into the starting QB for this team ill eat my words Quote me! He is in control of his destiny so lets see what hes got , he has not taken advantage so far and nobody is going to pee on my leg and tell me this guy is a future probowl QB until he does anything and PLEASEEEEEEEE! dont say the Patriots game its getting old.

 

[eddie4fins]

I'm one to believe that he can develop more. He really doesn't have a lot of time under his belt from college and pros.

But, if you use that argument, we definitely know what Gus is capable of. He's been in the league far longer and has never really been anything more than a backup as well (yeah, he was a starter for the Deadskins a while back, but he beat out Heath Shuler -- 'nuff said).

Gus is not the answer either but I would rather see him as a transition QB than AJ.

 

[Alex13]

brock berlin

instead of going with proven failures #1 and 2 (A.J and Gus) we should start the young gun brock berlin cause you never know look at New England in 2001 brady was 4th string before bledsoe got crushed and the pats won the superbowl so i say we give the kid a chance and on the plus side saban likes him.

 

[DolfanISS]

I think the QB juggling should be over. Whoever starts next weekend should be named the starter for week 1. This competition is killing the teams chances of building any offensive chemistry. Gus and AJ are so close, does it really matter.

 

[DolfanCole]

Gus is not the answer either but I would rather see him as a transition QB than AJ.

Yeah, I'm torn. I believe another poster said it (maybe like on page 3 or something :)), but I don't know the right answer to the question ... "Do we play who we think is best prepared to win games right now or do we play AJ just to know what we have in him?" This, I gather is the real question in this thread.

 

[finfan54]

I must disagree with you there. The dinks and dunks are high percentage passes and eat up clock time. I think a few West Coast offenses have won Super Bowls with a dink-and-dunk offense. And with the performance of the defense, it can win, IMO.

The only problem with that is that The san fransisco 49ers would dink and dunk it to Rice and Taylor and #33 and they would score and get YAC. what Feeley was doing last night was just padding his percentage knowing that it would gain him recognition. But in the end, he will end up throwing INT's. Bank on it. But if it will make all the touchy feeley's happy, i say start him for the sake of them seeing it for themselves so they can shut up for once. This is getting rediculous.

 

[CanadaPhinsFan]

Never said it was a fact, and if he developes into the starting QB for this team ill eat my words Quote me! He is in control of his destiny so lets see what hes got , he has not taken advantage so far and nobody is going to pee on my leg and tell me this guy is a future probowl QB until he does anything and PLEASEEEEEEEE! dont say the Patriots game its getting old.

Sounds to me like that's what you said. Let's check:

We already know what AJ is so stop kidding yourselves into believing he going to "develope" into anything but a 3rd string QB

Yup, you said we know he won't be any more than a 3rd stringer. It's your opinion, but you stated it as a fact.

 

[CanadaPhinsFan]

I think the QB juggling should be over. Whoever starts next weekend should be named the starter for week 1. This competition is killing the teams chances of building any offensive chemistry. Gus and AJ are so close, does it really matter.

Which goes back to the original point of this thread. If they're that close, it might as well be AJ who starts. At least that way we'll have a definitive answer about him.

 

[cdz12250]

The Dolphins would be better served to lose 11 games with Feeley at QB than to lose 11 games with gus at QB.

gus looks as bad, if not worse, than any QB that has come through here in the last 5 years. We're not going to the play-offs with gus as our QB. There are no if's, ands, or buts about it. If gus survives the whole season as a starter without getting injured, we'll be drafting in the top 10 and we won't know jack-**** about Feeley.

Let Feeley be the starter, learn the system by playing in it, and if he survives the whole year without getting injured we're either going to be exactly where we'd be with gus, except that we'll KNOW what Feeley is as a QB,

......or we're going to watch Feeley get better and better throughout the season.

With Feeley as the starter it's a win win even if we lose lose.

Start gus and it's a lose lose and more lose.

Can't see where I disagree with you.