Big J wrote:Pattersonca65 wrote:Big J wrote:
Of course he didn’t develop. He only played 5 quarters of regular season ball as the starter. All young guys need time to figure it out. Don’t you remember how long it took Alex Smith to get good?
Alex Smith played under some horrible coaches and teams and Alex Smith developed into a mid-tier QB at that. And the FO and Shanahan certainly felt that Lance was not coming along the way they wanted him to. The reports coming out of camp were not good.
Who cares. Some guys just take longer to develop. A guy with Lances physical abilities deserves a longer timeline due to his ceiling.
Josh Allen and Jalen Hurts are recent case studies of physically gifted QBs with some mechanical issues and other questions who were slow to develop, saw a lot of questions raised about their abilities, and then played at an elite level in year three. I would have thought those success stories were on our FO's minds when they picked Lance, and that they would stay on their minds, but apparently not. Got to hope they were right about Lance - not that I wish ill on him, but he's a Cowboy now - but even in that case, it means they were really, really wrong when they drafted him.