BALLS DEEP said:
Fins,
I say start the QB that gives us the best chance to win the most games this year! I can't say at this point that thats either Gus or Aj. The juries out on all of our QB's. I'd like to see any of them step up and perform two weeks in a row. AND unless theres great improvement, during next offseason I'd probably trade the both of them and Ricky for a shot at a good QB!
Do we really want to risk the entire season on AJ?
The thought that this team is going anywhere except home after 16 games should leave your mind right now. We are not going to the play-offs we are not going to the Super Bowl. Not with gus frerotte.
The long term interests of the Dolphins will be better served by AJ guiding us to 5 wins rather than gus leading us to 7 wins. The scenario is this, AJ gets the entire season to steadily improve, if that doesn't happen what have we lost and what have we gained?
Lost: Hard to say but, 2-3 more games maybe, than if gus had played but, is that really a bad thing?
Lost: ???
okay,
Gained : The indesputable knowledge that AJ is or isn't going to work out. Which, IMO, is invaluable to the process of making a decison about making an enormous investment in a QB drafted in the first round.
Gained :Cohesion of going through "hell" together, if in fact AJ does improve and grow along
with Saban's team. The bond this would create is important to any championship team. Trust in the players around you is tantamount to success.
Gained : If AJ sits on the bench this year and does improve enough to take the job away from gus next year, we are back to this same spot in our QB development. If AJ plays this year and improves that way, next year we have a QB thst is going into his second season as the starter for our team.
Saban practically sounded like posters on here yesterday with all his talk about the O-line causing such evaluation problems. He said everything but "The line Sucks!!"....he's hemming and hawing about it because
he can't evaluate who is good or who is bad playing behind that line....yet 9 out of 10 people who hate Feeley are doing so based on his play from last year , behind one of the worst offensive lines in history....It's no coincidence that we sent more of our offense backfield to the hospital last year than any year I can recall for any team in the league. gus has had 12 years in this league, he's played behind good and bad o-lines and it doesn't make a difference because he doesn't have the accuracy needed to be a good QB. Feeley looked good as a 2nd year player when he played behind a decent O-line in Philly, I think he could look even better as a 5th year player playing behind a decent line, if we could find one but why make excuses in order to keep and old back-up QB who isn't going to be around long, if you're going to make excuses, might as well use them to support the young guy.
:D
