NFL: What do you do when you go 0-16?
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Who else are they going to start? Culpepper? :biglaugh: yeah, he sure helped them win games last year. :skeptical:
I think the lions have some more trash for sale - Jerry interested in getting rid of some more draft picks
Yeah, I guess they learned nothing from starting Joey Harrington from the git go. Maybe Harrington wasn't meant to be an NFL QB, but having your confidence wrecked from the very beginning because you had to play behind a Lion's O-line certainly helped out in the process of him becoming the basketcase that he is today.
This. It has ruined many a good young QB. As soon as you have the hebbie-jeebies in the pocket that early in your career, you have it forever. The best thing a rookie QB can do is sit and watch for 4 years.... absorb, learn, play but not be that have to have player.
Yeah, people out here still talk about what happened to Harrington. He never got a chance to learn anything before getting thrown into the fire. Some guys can handle that, he obviously didn't. It could happen again. You just never know.....Falcons and Ravens did okay with rookies last year.
CycloneErik
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If the kid can handle it and learn while doing it, he should be in there since he's their future.
But there is also the side of it that keep mentions where some players can't handle it and it ruins them.
Each player is different and the situation can really only be handled with an indepth knowledge of Stafford and his mindset.
But there is also the side of it that keep mentions where some players can't handle it and it ruins them.
Each player is different and the situation can really only be handled with an indepth knowledge of Stafford and his mindset.
I will flat out admit I didn't want Matt Ryan starting last season for the reasons I mentioned about Harrington with the Lions and Carr with the Texans. I was so unimpressed with what the Falcons did with their 3+ headed QB monster back in 2007 I was for sure that the Falcons were going to ruin Ryan's career by starting him from the onset, no matter how many times Falcons fans in Atlanta said he looked just that good in camp. And hey, I was wrong. But both Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco have an advantage that I just don't think Stafford will have in Detroit - a credible running game. Neither Ryan nor Flacco had to do it all by themselves from the onset - Ryan had Turner, Flacco had Baltimore's tandem of RBs. When a defense has to respect the run the way the Falcons' and Ravens' opponents had to last season, it makes it much easier for a rookie QB to survive when trying to learn by being thrown into the fire. I'm not convinced that Stafford will have the same advantage that Ryan and Flacco had because I'm not convinced the Lions have a credible running game. Maybe Stafford will be successful - but he's going to have to be much more mentally strong than previous rookie QBs.