When do you start a young player?
Can someone give examples of a player playing too early and ruining his development? I think its happened, but can't think of one right now.
There's a point/counter point to starting a player early and positives/negatives to both. More experience if he starts early versus potentially ruining confidence if too many losses pile up. Playing behind a shitty OLine would not be good. We don't have a shitty OLine, but just sayin.
FTR, I don't think waiting till half way through the season was a WRONG decision, but a different decision. He would've been fine if he started the season as the starting QB. He seems to take most everything in stride, so a loss to Sparty or being beaten by PSU would not have hurt this guys confidence. My guess is he still would've had a good to great game against Rutgers yesterday.
It would be beneficial if Peters had started against Air Force and Cinci when we look at playing Wisconsin and the last game of the season, but we'll still be ok.
Really would like to hear names of players development hurt by not playing early.
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And Henne was hurt most of 2007, including the OSU game. Plus, they ran for 15 yards in that game. That was complete failure on offense.
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that started that debacle. He screwed around and lost to at least two and probably three inferior OSU teams. During that period, and with each successive loss, Tressel was reclaiming OH as its state and MI was having a hell of a time getting the kids out of there like it had in the past.
As we've learned from the MSU thing, it doesn't talke long for series to change Two, three good years, especialy with big upsets and large differentials, those young men start to look at both schools in different lights, one positive, one negative. You know which one the lens shone on us I think it also led to lloyd's decision to retire, even quicker than the fans were pushing him. He had lost his confidence and as Wilton has shown us it's a difficult thing to regain in the sporting world Leaders are troubled even greater due to the weight they both feel and actually carry.
October 30th, 2017 at 9:44 AM ^
I 100% (possibly irrationally) blame Henne for the loss to App St for the delay of game he took on 3rd and 1 late in the game (2nd to last drive). Hart picks that up 100 times out of 100 and we burn more clock, and possibly get a TD.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:15 AM ^
feel like I'm going to puke. I forgot about that play.
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wouldn't have won the job at some point because even if he was better Carr was riding out a starting QB no matter what.
October 29th, 2017 at 6:08 PM ^
just to get you to 44444 points since I'm OCD like that...
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You ALMOST sound like you're asking to be negged back to that zen state?
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because RG3 had one of the best rookie seasons of all time, and wasn't hurt by playing too early. He was hurt because Mike Shanahan kept him in a game on terrible turf with a bad knee and completely fucked him up.
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Did Bortles have a good oline to play behind?
October 29th, 2017 at 9:44 PM ^
Plenty of talented NFL QBs started right away, and Bortles issue is lack of accuracy. Nothing in his game says that he was hurt by playing too early.
October 29th, 2017 at 4:52 PM ^
I think #1, the player needs to be ready to make a positive contribution. And #2, he needs to have earned his playng time. You just can't let him play without earning that right. That leads to problems in the locker room.
As far as "earning" the right to play, I have wondered where Peters was in relation to earning playing time. We kept hearing he "wasn't ready". We never heard anything concrete as to what that meant, but I have had an opinion on it in that he just hadn't seized that opportunity. Perhaps he started to own it after Speight went down.
October 29th, 2017 at 7:28 PM ^
"Perhaps he started to own it after Speight went down." Yes, that's what Peters said in post-game interview yesterday. See the 2:35 mark of the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdCUe2lq2Tg
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Cleveland Browns
October 29th, 2017 at 5:24 PM ^
Finding examples of players who started too young and thereby did not meet their destiny to become great players is inherently an impossible task without a time machine.
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Why the heck are we discussing individual decisions made regarding individual players in global, generic, oversimplified ways?
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Except early Hackenberg was actually better than late career Hackenberg. Or so it seemed.
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When you think he's ready to play.
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then they will perform during the game
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Would Rodgers have played as well if he had started earlier?