My sense among those who are pushing back against the Rosen pile-on is that while the criticisms are all justified, he's still a 20-year-old college junior. Heaven help me if every stupid thing I did or said in college was exposed for an entire country to judge and criticize.
I realize the whole situation is fraught because (a) he's clearly a better quarterback than any of our present options, (b) we apparently declined to offer him due to attitude issues, and now that © we're struggling at QB it's (d) tempting to double down on Rosen's every character flaw to justify our passing on him even when he'd clearly dramatically improve our QB position. It's completely cognitively rational to do so, because we feel better about our QB situation if the reason we don't have Rosen is because his character flaws are a mile high.
All that said, he's still 20, and at some point we should cut him a break. Bad attitude? Yes. Sore loser? Sometimes, definitely. Divisive personality? Surely. 1/1000th of the poise, humility and charm of Andrew Luck? Absolutely. But a national pile-on of a 20-year-old eventually starts to feel unseemly when that 20-year-old is trying to graduate college while juggling full-time sports and preparing to apply for post-college jobs just like the rest of us did.
Tl;dr - Criticisms of Rosen are valid but we're pushing the limit on them.
Edited to add: On the merits, I agree with all of you, and have +1'd half the comments. I find his attitude, are I say, deplorable. But I think I need to check myself on how much I rail on him.
I realize the whole situation is fraught because (a) he's clearly a better quarterback than any of our present options, (b) we apparently declined to offer him due to attitude issues, and now that © we're struggling at QB it's (d) tempting to double down on Rosen's every character flaw to justify our passing on him even when he'd clearly dramatically improve our QB position. It's completely cognitively rational to do so, because we feel better about our QB situation if the reason we don't have Rosen is because his character flaws are a mile high.
All that said, he's still 20, and at some point we should cut him a break. Bad attitude? Yes. Sore loser? Sometimes, definitely. Divisive personality? Surely. 1/1000th of the poise, humility and charm of Andrew Luck? Absolutely. But a national pile-on of a 20-year-old eventually starts to feel unseemly when that 20-year-old is trying to graduate college while juggling full-time sports and preparing to apply for post-college jobs just like the rest of us did.
Tl;dr - Criticisms of Rosen are valid but we're pushing the limit on them.
Edited to add: On the merits, I agree with all of you, and have +1'd half the comments. I find his attitude, are I say, deplorable. But I think I need to check myself on how much I rail on him.