lol so the the last couple of years of him here where he had decent protection was supposed to make him forget about the years prior where he was pounded to a pulp? You'd be a sack magnet/shell shocked too if you were pounded to a pulp for 3-4 years & had a guy with the nickname "turnstile" tasked with watching your backside.
That's what separates the Aaron Rogers from the Brian Hoyers.
He was not a very good qb, but the o-linemen he had in front of him for most of his time here made him look that much worse not the other way around..... & we can just leave it at that.
I give him a pass his first two years. Which is why I don't like the idea of starting a rookie QB if he doesn't know how to protect himself. David Carr did not know how to protect himself. Forget the OL. There's a certain level of protection he can't blame anyone but himself for. Get rid of the ball. Throw it out of bounds, throw it in the dirt. Throw it to the hot receiver. Call a freak'n time out. Very much the same as Case Keenum in the second half of those 8 games he started. Couldn't beat a blitz. Couldn't protect himself.
If he was burning up time outs, or throwing the ball into the stands... at receiver's feet. I'd say he did all he could & the OL was garbage. But when he's running around his linemen, defeating the leverage they worked so hard to gain... you can't blame the OL.
Every position on the line had been changed out twice over if not more before I said screw it. The kid's got to go. & actually, I was more upset with the coaches for leaving him in the game. Benching him would probably have helped his career a lot more than letting him take the beating he took.