Come on guys, give the man some love. Was he the most athletic QB we have ever had? No. But if he had not been there, oh what pains that first year would have been. He set several records. So maybe we can assume a QB with more athleticism can even best that. But I do shudder to think what might have been. Also having a QB that did not carry the team allowed for the growth of other positions which will definitely help us this season. Yeah, he was slow, but he did pull us through what could have been a tough season.
I wasn't intending to insult Todd, not at all. But the reality is that he was merely adequate at best. He even had three games where he turned into 2008 Chris Todd, which was not remotely adequate. All in all, he did some good things last year, helped us win some games, and I was mostly pleasantly surprised with him.
But in the end, he simply wasn't anything special. He just wasn't. And to say someone wasn't "special" isn't the same as saying they sucked or that they weren't good. So the point to my comment was that if we have anyone on the roster can manage to be "
adequate", then we shouldn't need to "pray to all that is Holy" as if we could go 2-10 if someone isn't as good as the elite Chris Todd.
In fact, if someone is as good as him from a talent standpoint and is
also pretty consistent, we'll improve at that position. Inconsistency was his biggest flaw to me...even more so than his back-foot, shot-put passes that crept in from time to time.
We are not replacing Vince Young or Sam Bradford or Tim Tebow. RWS' post was just a little dramatic to me, considering everything I just wrote. Not to mention the fact that we actually had no idea what Rollison was bringing to the table anyway, so how can we know what we lost?
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