Originally posted by Afrikan:
I love how this place goes back and forth on things. What have some of yall said is most important for a backup QB to be for an established starter?? What was best for Purdy? It should make perfect sense in your eyes why an established vet like Cooper Rush (who played great for them previously when he has started), would be the backup QB for the Cowboys. Besides, McCarthy had no say in that trade for Lance. Jones did it himself and told McCarthy after.
"His career has been a major disappointment. Not even remotely close to fulfilling the expectations of his draft position."
Yeah because a great QB like Brock Purdy came out of no where, during the season he was out with injury? That should be held against him?
Now if you said, his situation or experience has been a major disappointment so far, then yeah I would agree. But what career has he had? When he was on the field starting, he played better than he played as a disappointment.
You really should go back and look at the highlights, lowlights really, of the pre-season game he played against the Raiders the year that he got traded to the Cowboys. It was a textbook example of everything that was wrong with his game. Or better yet, go watch JT O'Sullivans' breakdown of that game. It was brutal. As I recall, JT's assessment was that he, literally, didn't make a single correct decision in his first two series, but that may be overstating it some.
I think just about everybody was hoping Lance would succeed when he got here, but there were a handful of posters who were just CONVINCED, he was going to be great before he took a single snap in a single game. It was all, Lance is already an elite runner that will give us a Lamar Jackson option. Or a week into training camp, he already knows the playbook better than Jimmy. I mean people were literally making stuff up that had absolutely no basis in fact. He threw a 10-yard pass to a wide-open Kittle on a crossing route during a preseason game and it was, according to some, one of the best passes ever thrown by anyone in the world. I mean it was tiresome, and I think a lot of people started to hate Lance just because of all of the misplaced adulation he was getting in here.
Lance always seemed like a good kid. He throws a nice deep ball, but four years into his career he doesn't seem a lot further along than when he started. But if Harbaugh could fool people into thinking that Colin Kaepernick was anything more than a flash in the pan, maybe he can do the something with Lance.
