Originally posted by NYniner85:
Allowing the kid to play and being patient while he develops is what I've always said. Ya'll wanted instant success the moment he got on the field. He sat for multiple yrs not playing…yeah sure that will totally make him better at playing football
Half of you don't even remember the last time we spent legit draft capital on a QB. The ones that do, say Alex stunk in part because the team was junk and we had a revolving coaching staff…then ya'll say Lance CAN'T play on a good roster with a stable coaching staff lol. You were ready to toss him in the trash after 30 passing attempts this yr….I've never seen such a flip flop in my life. Went from MVP 5,000 yards and 40TDs to trash in a little over 4QRs of football lol. Patience, yeah right.
As usual, you are missing the salient point here. As has been discussed ad nauseum around here, if the 49ers were the Jags, or the Bears, people may have had been more on board with that philosophy. But the 49ers weren't the Jags or the Bears and they had a Super Bowl caliber roster with a lot of their best players in their prime years. Plus, they already had a QB on the roster who had the support of a large majority of the players and was someone they thought they could win with. Do you really think the team was interested in turning that roster over to a kid who had less experience than ANY QB who has ever been drafted in the first round in the modern era?
There was NEVER a chance that Lance was going to start that year, barring an injury, or the team missing out on the playoffs, so to try and argue that he should have been given the starter's role so that he could "develop" is just misguided and shows a fundamental lack of understanding about the dynamics around the team for the last few years. Of course, then the team tried to speed up the process by anointing him the starter the next year without the benefit of him actually having earned the job. Which apparently, pissed off the football gods enough to allow Purdy to step in and steal his thunder. Lance may end up just being a victim of bad luck. But at the moment, he still has an opportunity to step up and show what he is capable of.