Taylor Effing Heinicke

[AnonEmouse]

Originally Posted by ODUsmitty

What confuses me is the Allen love. And excuse any ignorance shown by this post, but you have 5 quarters of Heinicke, 4 of which in a playoff game vs a motivated defense. Give me the BEST 5 quarters of Allen and let's compare.

Allen didn't play badly, to me he's just average. He's like Trent Dilfer; given the right weapons around him (mainly a strong run game and a top defense) and he might well see you to a better than 8-8 record. But he's really just a backup at NFL level. He was only starting because Haskins stunk and healthier than Smith.

That's no reason not to being him back to compete for the QB2 (or 3) role as he knows the system very well. But right now I'd say Heinicke has the edge on QB2, mainly because he's shown himself capable of starting.

Heinicke has shown enough to at least compete for the starting role in camp but I don't see him winning it, and not least because there will still be that 'fragile' tag hanging over him. He's shown good in 1.5 games but he's also lost roster spots twice in the past through injury and then he got hurt again Saturday. He needs a bigger sample size and to stay healthy over a 17+ game season to prove he's long term starter material. Staff would be foolish to hang all our hopes on him right now.