Those who root for us to lose work a very simplistic football mind in which the QB is the final solution to all our problems and we will be instantly great. They have very little understanding of what Grier and Flores want to accomplish and what their vision is.
While Flores and Co would like to win a game here and there this season it is mainly about finding a supporting cast for the future - players who are versatile, interchangeable and buy into the system and ideas Flores and Co are trying to build and instill.
Rosen's evaluation falls into the same category. We could lose every game and still not pick a QB if Flores and Co feel like that Rosen could be the guy in the future. As a matter of fact the irony is that we could win 6 games and Rosen may not be the guy but we could also lose all of our games and Rosen could be our guy. Any evalution of any player this year is done on an individual basis and is done independent on wins or losses.
This is a season where any Dolphins fan should relax and enjoy a season of evaluation without any pressure. In fact we are in a great position to find our franchise QB. We have a possible franchise QB on our roster and if not we have the 2020 draft and if not we have the 2021 draft.
Rooting against the Dolphins is a rather selfish act to satisfy a man crush or just hopping along on a name train (popular guy train). I personally do not care what the name of our future franchise QB is: Rosen, Tua, Herbert, Fromm, Pee Wee Herrman. Who gives a ****. If he is a franchise QB, he is a franchise QB. I do prefer Rosen to become a franchise QB because it would shorten our rebuild by a year because the pick we might use on a QB could be turned into ransom and we could easily double our picks. But I am also not 'married' to Rosen and if he does not turn out to be "the one" we simply take a shot in the draft. Instead of selling myself out to one guy and one outcome I keep my options open and enjoy this season. But to each his own.
The one thing I know is that in the future I will enjoy our success much more because I kept my options open while those who 'married' themselves to one name will have a hard time to backpedal if another QB will be our franchise QB. Awkwardness is preprogrammed.
Oh, I almost missed this post. Probably because you were so high on your soapbox I could hardly see you. I always enjoy reading the irony of someone proclaiming to have a higher football IQ than others while backing a stance that is very laissez-faire. You'd make a pretty decent politician. Unfortunately I don't succumb to buzzwords and recognize a post with more stawmans than an Iowan farmer has need for.
Here. Forget the nonsense. I'll make it extremely easy for you and every other anti-Tua / pro-Rosen / whatever reader on this forum.
I want Tua because in my opinion Rosen has proven to be no better than Chad Henne, because I believe Tua is the best QB prospect to come out since Luck, because I think for a single draft pick a quarterback will add the most value to the team, and because winning 0 games or 3 games this year makes no difference whatsoever towards our future outside of lowering the chance to solve the position that has been plaguing us for a quarter century. Tua could absolutely be a bust because there's no sure thing in the draft, but just because something isn't guaranteed doesn't mean I'm not going to take my best shot at success.
I also think... and get this, because it might actually blow your mind... that a quarterback, no matter who he has around him, can play better than what Rosen has shown. Eeeeeeverything can and is being used as an excuse for his play and it's nauseating that this fan base hasn't learned from the 7 years worth of excuses that were constantly being thrown at Ryan Tannehill. We took the "sure thing" in Jake Long before instead of Matt Ryan and this fan base didn't learn from that lesson either.
Rosen has started 15 games. His career high yards is 252. His career high passer rating is 88.9, below league average and that's his BEST.
You say, "But Kamelion! He has nobody around him! His line sucks and his weapons suck and they drop passes and fumble every single time they touch the ball!"
And to that I say:
Dan Orlovsky - Started 7 games for the 2008 0-16 Detroit Lions: His top yards that year was 292 and his top passer rating was 99.6.
Jon Kitna - Started 4 games for the 2008 0-16 Detroit Lions: His top yards that year was 276 and his top passer rating was 103.3
The corpse of Dante Culpepper - Started 5 games for the 2008 0-16 Detroit Lions: His top yards that year was 220 and his top passer rating was 102.8.
DeShone Kizer - Started 15 games for the 2017 0-16 Cleveland Browns: His top yards that year was 314 and his top passer rating was 99.4.
Kevin Hogan - Started 1 game for the 2017 0-16 Cleveland Browns: His top yards that year was 194 and his top passer rating was 122.4.
So weird that the FIVE different quarterbacks on the two worst teams of all-time managed to ALL put up a more efficient game than Rosen has and 60% beat his career high in yards despite a much smaller sample size.
Make no mistake... all of those QBs are/were awful so if that's the bar that Rosen has to get over first, then him eventually turning into a "franchise guy" is not something that's likely in this physical plane.
But yeah, keep showing up to talk down to people. I can not even believe that you're actually a moderator.