10-22-2020, 11:59 AM
(10-22-2020, 11:51 AM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Even I can't fault him for this.
The season was over. They were 0-8. And they just had invested a 4th round pick in Finley. In fact that traded up to get him. Everyone knew at that point it was going to be Andy's last season. So they needed to see what they had in Finley before going into the offseason.
We're pretty much guaranteed a top 10 pick at that point. It makes perfect sense to see if you're most recent QB drafted had anything to build off of, before investing in another QB.
I think the people that look at that move, like Taylor thought Finley immediately gave them a better chance to win than Dalton, are looking at it the wrong way. That wasn't his motivation. His motivation was having nothing to lose, and wanting to see the kid play.
Now... if you want to have a talk about why they ever drafted him that high to begin with, I'm all ears. Because he looked like hot garbage, and someone who either should have been a UDFA or out of the league all together.
If they were just evaluating Finley then they should have let him start the rest of the season. Four games is nothing for a rookie QB. He was barely getting his feet wet.
Instead they had watched Finley in practice all year and thought he might give them a better chance of winning than Dalton. If they did not care about having the best chance of winning games they would have never returned to Dalton.
I honestly think that move has a lot to do with why so many players are questioning Zac's talent evaluation skills this year.
