No he wasn't bad for a rookie.
But i failed to 'it' in him either. The 'it' you saw when Marino replaced Woodley. I am not saying he will not be elite. Some players need couple years to blossom. It just that he has not given me evident to say, he got 'it'. And beacuse I say what I saw, I am labelled as anti Tua here.
None of us saw "it" when we watched Tua last year. There's no doubt Tua struggled, but I really do believe the hip injury should give him a year before we can truly evaluate him.
I am not entirely convinced he should have been playing. Hip dislocations are very serious. My brother, who is an athlete, had the same injury around the same time. But his leg was not reduced quite as quickly (Tua's was immediate).
Bc of this he has to wait 2 years to find out if he will develop avascular necrosis of his femur and need a hip replacement. Took him weeks to relearn how to walk. This is the level of injury Tua was coming back from.
You can call it an excuse, but I stand by my opinion that you can't properly evaluate a football player that had that injury 9 months before his next season starts.
I don't believe I fall into the Tua fanboy or hater club. I'm agnostic as of now. That video contained nothing but constructive (and correct) criticisms of Tua's play last year. That type of analysis not only doesn't bother me, but I appreciate it.
If somone has any new data or analysis on Tua that can be construed as negative, I'm more than glad to hear it.
But the constant harping from some posters that he just sucks gets old. "He wasn't good last year and Herbert was." We get it. But he's our QB for better or worse.
You're well within you're right to have a critical or negative opinion of Tua (or any opinion. I'm not the boss here). But if you're just posting the same old anti-Tua retreads we've heard a million times, don't be surprised if other posters are just tired of it.
(Not saying that's what ur personally doing. I don't follow every post u make)
