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Boone, if the correct focus is ONLY the future, you're 100% correct.
Are you writing off this year? If you are, then I see where you are coming from.
But we're not coming off a 3-13 year. We don't have a brand new head coach and a new roster full of fresh faces. That's the type of team that blows up a position as crucial as QB and staffs the roster with a bunch of hopefuls.
Most other teams have to maintain a balance between the present and the future. Again, you seem to be totally writing off the posibility that we could be good this year. If we are 8-2 and Campbell with 25 TDs goes down for a few weeks, you REALLY want a guy who's never taken a snap in the pros to step in, on the off chance that he might miraculously turn out to be our franchise QB in '10?
Tom Brady is the exception, not the rule. You simply can't base a strategy for success on exceptions. That's a recipe for failure.
I think I've made it clear that I have seriously lost faith in the front office of this team. But that's not based on the fact that they haven't completely thrown away convention and staked our future on a couple lottery tickets. It's because they are doing a lousy job. Keeping two fan-favorite nobodies on the team over a proven vet at QB won't make them look less lousy. It will just make them look desperate.
Look up Collins stats Henry.
He's barely played in the NFL Seriously. Is he better prepared than Colt or Daniels? No question. But he's hardly a living wealth of NFL game experience. I reject your core argument, that if JC goes down for the season and we have to go to #2, that the seasons over if Collins, and ONLY Collins, is the guy we turn to.
I'm arguing that Collins is solid, but the statistical likelihood is that if our starter goes down for the season, we aren't going anywhere anyway. I'd also say that the assumption that we absolutley couldn't compete with a guy like Brennan in there flies in the face of evidence. Look at Flacko and Ryan last year. Explain the difference to me.
Other than that we're likely to release one of them before we can identify their potential?
As to Brady, of course you're absolutely right. But we'll never experience that glorious exception if we continue to look only one season ahead. Talent sometimes takes time to make itself apparent. I guess I fear we'll never experience that 'incredible find' because no one's ever here long enough for it to make itself apparent.
For the record, I know you're the most reasonable of skeptics. Btw... the intent of the thread isn't to even to suggest this is what the Skins should do (not to sound like a copout), but rather just a 'thought' about the approach. Seriously, Collins, on the surface, is a 'no-brainer' - I'm just challenging the 'conventional wisdom' a bit here.
Not like I've even necessarily convinced myself.
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