As I continue to recover from this horrible loss I had a thought this morning and figured I'd share.
We all know the SL hire turned out to be the wrong one. But was it also an indicator of the JA issues we now see? The overriding reason given (and parroted by the media) was "let's keep things consistent for JA", "we don't want our young QB to have to learn a new system". It occurs to me now in hindsight that may have been a sign. QBs learn new offenses all the time and they had a full off-season to implement it if an outside OC hire was made.
I really like JA and still believe he's a talented QB, but he just wasn't ready for the adversity of limited WR talent and a struggling OL. When the adversity came, his "football IQ" suffered. Maybe the decision to be easy on him and not give him a new scheme to learn was a foreshadow of things to come.
I know, hindsight is 20/20, as they say.
We all know the SL hire turned out to be the wrong one. But was it also an indicator of the JA issues we now see? The overriding reason given (and parroted by the media) was "let's keep things consistent for JA", "we don't want our young QB to have to learn a new system". It occurs to me now in hindsight that may have been a sign. QBs learn new offenses all the time and they had a full off-season to implement it if an outside OC hire was made.
I really like JA and still believe he's a talented QB, but he just wasn't ready for the adversity of limited WR talent and a struggling OL. When the adversity came, his "football IQ" suffered. Maybe the decision to be easy on him and not give him a new scheme to learn was a foreshadow of things to come.
I know, hindsight is 20/20, as they say.
