I was watching reruns on ESPN today about Tom Brady while at Michigan. Michigan's coach benched Tom Brady before his senior season after a fantastic prior season where he won 10 out of 11 games against a very good big ten schedule. Michigan got Drew Henson and their coach benched Brady just to give the new kid a chance merely because of his upside potential. Now even though I myself disagreed with that decision because we are talking about Tom Brady here, it shows the guts Carr had to make that team win by at least rolling the dice with the new guy knowing full well Brady is a well demonstrated talent. As the season progressed Brady was put back out there when Drew started getting exposed for his then lack of ability to handle the pressure and Brady went on to lead them in a BCS victory against Alabama.
To the contrary Purdue has the most incredibly ineffective stubbornness to make any changes at all to QB during the season until utter unsalvageable season ending disaster ensues first and the fans have to endure just absolutely horrendous play at the position since. Sure we had a diamond in the rough with Brees, but every QB since has been just disastrous out there. Orton passed well and had good stats but never won a thing but a chicken wing. Painter's play was same old same old. And since those two it has been basically unspeakable at the QB position in the worst kind of way, and unbelievable recruit selections by the coaches such as the outright rejection of Arron Rodgers, which is astounding. I looked at tape on Rodgers myself and was overwhelmingly impressed, and can't fathom how Purdue came to the conclusion to reject Rodgers. To me it shows the staff didn't know what the hell they were doing at that time in the way of recruiting and it was the materialization of these costly decisions that has put the program so far off the radar we can't pickup a single 4star football recruit in nearly a decade, while having to play teams that have their entire rosters full of 4star recruits at all positions. And I am still disappointed at the nuclear meltdown this team was dealt out there last year at QB with just horribly bad thrown balls, incompletions that boggle the mind, reads that are beyond bad, and one interception after the other, tipped balls, poor drop backs, and just outright lack of leadership. Winning teams will pull a QB after one bad performance because the team was let down. That should be enough in my mind to give a shot to someone else. So I dare ask this question. How many losses will it take to put in Blough? I mean what will it take? 4 losses in a row by 20 points each? Why the mystery or delay in the action required. This is about putting the best guy out there as fast as possible without delay. What is it going to take? Why traumatize the fans any further? How many 5 yard passes to tailbacks running a simple roll route do we need to see thrown over their heads, or worse ran back for pick 6's? How many more lethargic drives do we got to see turn into flopped punts against teams like Bowling Green or some other no-name school in the MAC who will end up winning the game likely on a missed field goal right after an incomplete pass 10 yards out of bounds on the previous play.
I say put in Blough and put him in now.
This post was edited on 4/19 8:39 PM by Foolmeoncefan
To the contrary Purdue has the most incredibly ineffective stubbornness to make any changes at all to QB during the season until utter unsalvageable season ending disaster ensues first and the fans have to endure just absolutely horrendous play at the position since. Sure we had a diamond in the rough with Brees, but every QB since has been just disastrous out there. Orton passed well and had good stats but never won a thing but a chicken wing. Painter's play was same old same old. And since those two it has been basically unspeakable at the QB position in the worst kind of way, and unbelievable recruit selections by the coaches such as the outright rejection of Arron Rodgers, which is astounding. I looked at tape on Rodgers myself and was overwhelmingly impressed, and can't fathom how Purdue came to the conclusion to reject Rodgers. To me it shows the staff didn't know what the hell they were doing at that time in the way of recruiting and it was the materialization of these costly decisions that has put the program so far off the radar we can't pickup a single 4star football recruit in nearly a decade, while having to play teams that have their entire rosters full of 4star recruits at all positions. And I am still disappointed at the nuclear meltdown this team was dealt out there last year at QB with just horribly bad thrown balls, incompletions that boggle the mind, reads that are beyond bad, and one interception after the other, tipped balls, poor drop backs, and just outright lack of leadership. Winning teams will pull a QB after one bad performance because the team was let down. That should be enough in my mind to give a shot to someone else. So I dare ask this question. How many losses will it take to put in Blough? I mean what will it take? 4 losses in a row by 20 points each? Why the mystery or delay in the action required. This is about putting the best guy out there as fast as possible without delay. What is it going to take? Why traumatize the fans any further? How many 5 yard passes to tailbacks running a simple roll route do we need to see thrown over their heads, or worse ran back for pick 6's? How many more lethargic drives do we got to see turn into flopped punts against teams like Bowling Green or some other no-name school in the MAC who will end up winning the game likely on a missed field goal right after an incomplete pass 10 yards out of bounds on the previous play.
I say put in Blough and put him in now.
This post was edited on 4/19 8:39 PM by Foolmeoncefan
