Mike Glennon is so underwhelming. Stop gap, stop gap, stop gap. Lets go pick our guy, and stop trying to make **** sandwiches taste good. I'd much rather take a shot on whoever this staff feels fits in the draft then another retread.
"nahhhh none of these guys really do it for us so we're just gonna go Hoyer again, I dunno maybe Savage, yeah Glennon can win us some games, franchise guy? Yeah we think he might or might not be, lets give him a year to find out.. We heard in the 2020 draft there is this cant miss kid"
First off, Glennon isn't a "retread". He's never had a chance to be the "man" to be a someone's "retread". He was by far the best QB taken in the 2013 draft (yeah, not saying much when Geno Smith and AJ Manuel were 1st rounders). However compare his rookie stats to some other rookies that were drafted to be franchise guys and are still starters.
Glennon - 13 games - 2,603 yards - 59.4% - 19 TDs - 9 Ints - 83.9 rating
A. Luck - 16 games - 4,374 yards - 51.4% - 23 TDs - 18 Ints - 76.5 rating
Bortles - 14 games - 2,908 yards - 58.9% - 11 TDs - 17 Ints - 69.5 rating
Derek Carr - 16 games - 3,270 yards - 58.1% - 21 TDs - 12 Ints - 76.6 rating
Bridgewater - 13 games - 2,919 yards - 64.4% - 14 TDs - 12 Ints - 85.2 rating
Mariota - 12 games - 2,818 yards - 62.2 % - 19 TDs - 10 Ints - 91.5 rating
Winston - 16 games - 4,042 yards - 58.3 % - 22 TDs - 15 Ints - 84.2 rating
Ryan Tannehill - 16 games - 3,294 yards - 58.3% - 12 TDs - 13 Ints - 76.1 rating
Eli Manning - 9 games - 1,043 yards - 48.2% - 6 TDs - 9 Ints - 55.4% rating
Peyton Manning - 16 games - 3,739 yards - 56.7% - 26 TDs - 28 Ints - 71.2 rating
Brees (2nd season, only played 1 game as rookie) 16 games - 3,284 yards - 55.6% - 17 TDs - 16 Ints - 76.9 rating
I could keep listing guys and you will see Glennon's rookie stats are better than many (probably most) of those QBs drafted to be starters and are still starting. If Glennon were drafted in the 1st round and projected to be the franchise guy by someone his rookie season he would easily be the starter the 2nd season. However we are talking about the same franchise that felt Steve Young wasn't starter material.
Now for his story ...
The Bucs shocked all of their fans by picking him the 3rd round. This was because at that time Josh Freeman was the "man" and everyone thought he was the QB of the future. Most fans felt it was a wasted pick when the Bucs needed help in other areas. However Schiano knew something was up with Freeman and insisted that they take Glennon in the 3rd. Schiano tried to recruit Glennon in college and was in love with the guy.
Who knows what really went down however Freeman's meltdown that preseason and early season was bizarre. Did Schiano really know something? Was it a case of the new HC not wanting the QB picked by the previous regime? Not sure, but it was bizarre. Also the whole MRSA thing went down that preseason to make things even more crazy around One Buc Place.
During that preseason Freeman looked like total garbage every game however Schiano was pulling him after one or two drives. I couldn't understand why Schiano was doing this. You would think if your starter was struggling you would want him to have more playing time to work out his issues. That didn't happen and Glennon was getting most of the playing time. He was surprisingly good however no one was taking him seriously because surely Freeman would get it figured out.
Despite Glennon's good preseason play the Tampa media kept piling on him saying he "looks like a giraffe" and there is "no way this guy is going to survive playing a regular season game if Freeman falters". The consensus was he was too skinny and not built to survive the hits in the NFL.
Long story short, Freeman continues to meltdown in the regular season and in a bizarre move Schiano releases him after 4 weeks handing the job to Glennon. Most thought Glennon would be dead in a week or two because the offensive line was deplorable and there was no running game. Surprisingly he was tougher than most thought and did well taking hits and staying poised.
I was on a business trip in Seattle and saw Glennon start that season vs the eventual Super Bowl winning Seahawks. The Bucs were like 0-8 and Glennon was the only bright spot on the team. I thought they were going to get killed however went anyway since a client gave us real good club seats. Glennon came out on a tear taking the Bucs to a 21-0 lead in the first half. The shocked Seahawks fans around us kept commenting on how they were impressed with Glennon. After the big lead Schiano took the ball out of Glennon's hands by getting conservative. The Seahawks eventually took the lead going up late 24-21. Now trailing Schiano allowed Glennon to start airing it out again and he drove the length of the field to get the tying FG to send it to OT. The Seahawks won in OT, however. Even in a loss I thought Glennon made a statement that game.
Considering how poor the team was around him with no offensive line, considering he was playing under an average college level coach who had no business coaching a NFL team, I thought he had a real impressive rookie season (as you can see in the stats above). I thought he definitely did enough to be named the starter his 2nd season.
However the Bucs fire Schiano, they hire Lovie Smith and right after Smith is hired he goes out and signs Josh McCown and immediately names him the starter in the off season. Lovie would say things like "Glennon is our future however we need a proven vet to start now and mentor him".
McCown consistently keeps getting outplayed by Glennon in the preseason, so much so that many fans start clamoring for him to be named the starter. The local sports radio station starts calling them the "Glennon Mob". Stubbornly Lovie Smith sticks to his guns, playing the "we're going with the vet card" and McCown doesn't get any better in the regular season. After a few weeks McCown gets hurt and Glennon finally has his chance. What does he do? He rallies a winless horrible Bucs team to a last minute clutch win in Pittsburgh. Surely he will be named the starter now right? Wrong. Lovie Smith goes back to McCown once he is ready to play despite Glennon looking better. Another side note to this season is there was no offensive coordinator. Lovie hired Jeff Tedford however he had a health issue and left the team during the preseason.
Glennon had his ups and downs the second season however the team was even worse than it was in his rookie season and he had no offensive coordinator. Lovie Smith is no QB guru either.
What was telling to me was the last game vs the Saints at the end of the 2014-15 season. The Bucs were intentionally tanking in the 2nd half to secure the #1 overall pick. They were winning so in the 2nd half they pulled most all of their starters, except one notable one, Josh McCown. I found it interesting that they put in the 2nd team offense however didn't throw Glennon in there. That spoke volumes to me being that they were purposely trying to lose.
With Winston being drafted overall #1 obviously Glennon was not going to even be a thought to start during his 3rd season. He's going to be given a true shot somewhere. It could be in Cleveland, it should be in Houston.