I'm not the one writing the scenarios. I'm just trying to be realistic about them and am open to seeing things from O'Brien's perspective. It's clear that he believes Fitz is the best chance of winning and it's clear that he cares more about winning now than experimenting with his other QB's. Take that however you will but the guy came here to win and that's what he's trying to do.
Who was more important to that win, Foster or Fitzpatrick?
Which one's back up's back up got to take snaps?
If we were going to lose that game, it would have been because we stopped giving the ball to Foster.
Honestly, I don't think this would be nearly as big an issue at all if Mallett had another year left on his contract.
If he had another year on his contract, it would be easier for me to believe he isn't starting because Fitzpatrick is better.
I'd believe Fitzpatrick was better if our game plan was something other than "hand the ball off to Arian." If we were game planning against each team, if we were creating & taking advantage of mismatches. But since we're seeing a vanilla offense week after week, it's very difficult to believe the best QB is starting.
What if Mallett walks and turns out to be good and we let him slip through our fingers? You just need to swallow that and have faith that if Mallett was better than Ryan Fitzpatrick then he would be our starting QB. That's probably a tough pill to swallow for most of you, but I have faith in O'Brien so I choose to trust him on this issue.
I had an idea what Bortles, Bridgewater, & Mettneberger were going to look like once they took the field. I've got an idea what JFF is going to look like once he takes the field. David Carr is the only one that surprised me so far.
I'm pretty sure OB has an idea, I'm pretty sure Godsey has an idea. & I don't think we would have traded for him if they didn't think he was as good or better than Fitzpatrick.
Don't get me wrong, I was just saying that we need to stop complaining with Fitz & just get with the program, they've got their reason for doing what they're doing. I don't know what it is, but if they set the standard for a starting QB at Fitzpatrick & then traded for a guy who is worse....
man, I don't even want to think about that.