[dabigv13]

I was making a Dennis Green reference there, guess nobody picked it up.

You're right, obviously nobody has seen enough of BN to make a truly reasoned judgement. And simply as fans, we really have no right to demand that. But for a kid to be the second string all last year, look good in spring ball and to most neutral observers seem to be ahead in practices up until the announcement of the starter, and then disappear is a bit strange don't you think? Hogan may be better than BN. But if we're to believe that the QB competition really did go down to the wire in the summer, then for the runner-up to not get snaps even in a blowout is weird to me. Especially because as I said earlier, Hogan is not a prototypical QB for the offense we've run the past few years, whereas BN would seem to be.

And garvin, how do I explain it other than in the words of Potter Stewart...I know it when I see it. It seems that of the 50% of passes that Nunes does complete, 1/3 of those are underthrown, requiring a receiver to come back to a ball and then get no YAC, 1/3 are overthrown, requiring a receiver to leap for a ball and then got clobbered by a defender, and 1/3 are just right. And yes our offensive production was better than expected against the Bears, but that wasn't because the defense was forced to respect JN, it was because our o-line blocked pretty well and Taylor simply went into beast mode.

[dabigv13]

I was making a Dennis Green reference there, guess nobody picked it up.

You're right, obviously nobody has seen enough of BN to make a truly reasoned judgement. And simply as fans, we really have no right to demand that. But for a kid to be the second string all last year, look good in spring ball and to most neutral observers seem to be ahead in practices up until the announcement of the starter, and then disappear is a bit strange don't you think? Hogan may be better than BN. But if we're to believe that the QB competition really did go down to the wire in the summer, then for the runner-up to not get snaps even in a blowout is weird to me. Especially because as I said earlier, Hogan is not a prototypical QB for the offense we've run the past few years, whereas BN would seem to be.

And garvin, how do I explain it other than in the words of Potter Stewart...I know it when I see it. It seems that of the 50% of passes that Nunes does complete, 1/3 of those are underthrown, requiring a receiver to come back to a ball and then get no YAC, 1/3 are overthrown, requiring a receiver to leap for a ball and then got clobbered by a defender, and 1/3 are just right. And yes our offensive production was better than expected against the Bears, but that wasn't because the defense was forced to respect JN, it was because our o-line blocked pretty well and Taylor simply went into beast mode.