12-30-2015, 12:45 PM
(12-30-2015, 12:13 PM)Beaker Wrote: The exact reasons why AJM needs to play against the ravens. He needs the experience. The more D he sees and learns to read, the better he will perform in the next game. Which in this case will be playoffs.
I agree, and can't imagine anyone wanting to sit AJM until Andy is ready to return.
I just don't think people should expect too much from him... Bill Polian talked about the progression of quarterbacks once. I may muck up the timeline a bit, but he essentially broke it down like this:
Year 1: quarterback learns to call the offense
Year 2: quarterback learns to read defenses
Year 3: quarterback learns the deeper concepts of offenses and defenses
Year 4: quarterback learns to manipulate defenses to expose matchups
AJM is doing great, and needs all the playtime he can get, but we can't expect him to be doing much more than calling the plays he's given. He's just not there yet. :)
