10-10-2016, 01:18 PM
I could totally buy Costello being great. However I doubt it is much of a solution to the offense's current woes,* for the reasons BC identifies. Football isn't the NBA or baseball; it's even some distance away from soccer: changing single variables doesn't necessarily have a brobdingnagian effect on team play. No one thinks Christian McCaffrey is a bad player; as far as I can tell the commentariat hasn't soured on Josh Rosen, who's having a difficult year. Cam Newton and Andrew Luck are good players. And so on.
So even if Costello is better than Burns + Chryst right now, it's probable that doesn't make a big change for the offense overall. But that's conceding too much: as the Cardboard has discussed on several instances, true freshmen QBs nearly always stink. So I think Stanford fans need to take their medicine this year, sadly.
* (CAVEAT HERE: I also said the same thing about 2012's QB controversy, and was brilliantly proven wrong. It's very possible I'm overly conservative when it comes to QB controversies.)
So even if Costello is better than Burns + Chryst right now, it's probable that doesn't make a big change for the offense overall. But that's conceding too much: as the Cardboard has discussed on several instances, true freshmen QBs nearly always stink. So I think Stanford fans need to take their medicine this year, sadly.
* (CAVEAT HERE: I also said the same thing about 2012's QB controversy, and was brilliantly proven wrong. It's very possible I'm overly conservative when it comes to QB controversies.)