hands11 wrote:Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:Nivek wrote:Only way this becomes a controversy is if RGIII isn't any good.
Or, if Shanahan thinks Cousins is better than RGIII at any point in the next 2-3 years.
But what wrong with bringing in a guy who is a rookie who can be your back up next year. Someone you can groom who has some talent. QBs get hurt every year so why not have two that you like and not over pay for the second one. There is no future in having Rex as the back up while Cousins could be the back up for the next 3 years. If things go the best they can, he is a really good talent and in 3 years you trade him. In the mean time, you are saying money on your back up next year so you can use that money on something else you need.
In the old days, team used to groom a QB before they played. I see no problem in talking Cousins. And it isnt bad for him. Not like it was likely he was going to start for another team if he was drafted in the 4th. If we didn't take him to sit on our bench, some other team would have done the same.
hands11, I can see your point about bringing Cousins along slowly. No harm in that, and in possibly trading Cousins later. Like verbal8, you have demonstrated that this might not be a terrible thing for Cousns' career.
Didn't comment on the post above, but back when I was in HS my parents split up. At the time, I really wan't trying to listen to my dad. He didn't abandon us, but I was glad when he left because I was afraid one night he was going to come back in and my mom, who had a drinking problem back then, was going to kill him. My dad was an army pilot and not to slander him but IMO I think himself, his career, his friends, and the women in his life (who he didn't think anybody knew about) were more important to him than his family. Some of my anger was for the pain he put her through -- but I only really knew my mom's side of the story then. She was home. Also, it seemed like my dad was pretty critical of me. hands, how you described your dad ... roger that.
It's funny, but if my dad had been as honest then or at least as loving then as he is now some 30+ years later, who knows. We could have been a lot closer and I probably wouldn't have had the issues with anger that popped up from time to time. (My childhood featured more than a few fights). My son is only 12 but he wants to be an NFL player. I feel blessed to be someone he respects and listens to. Fortunately for me and my Dad, he's lived long enough for us to mend fences.
My dad is my best friend. Like me, he's still got some jerk in him, but I love the old man.
I have to choose to accept the things he doesn't feel or doesn't seem to know how to show. But thanks to what he DIDN'T give me when I was young, I can give that TIME with LOVE and PATIENCE to my kids.
Bye bye Beal.