Why I'm Not Gonna Panic About Our QB

[tshile]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

I wouldn't want to risk anyone to injury at this point. Especially playing against scrubs, I don't see where the benefit outweighs the risk. It's not like practice reps don't count.

yeah, that's valid. i've been one of the ones preaching that our starters need more time in preseason because i watch teams coming off successful seasons getting much more work than us - including the seahawks.

but it's hard to justify putting them against scrubs in week 4, players that are going all out to try to make an impression and land a job somewhere if not for their current team.

it's hard to find a happy medium. i would have preferred our starters received more work in week 2 and week 3.

Here's just some (projected) starters that got more attempts in this preseason than Griffin (who had 20):
Newton - 21
Brandford -21
Kaepernick - 22
Mathew Stafford - 30
Tom Brady - 31
Geno Smith - 33
Aaron Rodgers - 33
Andy Dalton - 34
Matt Ryan - 37
Ben Rapelsberger - 37
Eli Manning - 37
Russell Wilson - 39
Ryan Tannehill - 41
Andrew Luck - 41
Jay Cutler - 42
Ryan Fitzpatrick - 43
Joe Flacco - 45
Petyon manning - 54 (lol?)

There are quite a few super bowl winning QB's getting a lot more reps than our guy. I hope Gruden's some mastermind or something, because our guy isn't getting anywhere near the number of reps as many of the other QB's that are among the best playing right now.