Russ Smith said:
The one thing is if King comes out and moves the team and we improve the offense the rest of the year, we'll absolutely look back and wish we'd made the move earlier.
Now I'm really screwed, I have Clayton against a beat up SF secondary and Roy Williams against a horrible Minnesota defense, Holt is injured, but I just KNOW that Green is going to feature Fitz today so that people don't attack him for passing on Ben, now that he's benched Josh. I really am tempted to start Fitz now for that reason alone. I had picked up King on thursday so he's starting for me today.
Russ I hope I say this correctly but honestly are you like the poster child of coulda shoulda woulda?
Even a guy like Green thought Josh had potential and not trying to find that out in a reasonable amount of time would have had a cost.
You can say that in the end you were proved right about Josh but you cannot claim that intelligent Knowledgeable people couldn't and didn't have a different opinion.
I never said Josh would make it just that he had all the tools and that isn't something you just trash.
You also couldn't really tell without starting him. Green wanted his shot to mold him and it didn't work out but what we accomplished is weeding out one more legit possiblity so we could move forward.
Some cynics would say that Green just used Josh to draft Fitz. Honestly if you made a bet with me. I'd say that might very well be the reason we even went down the Josh path.
If and that's a big if, that was what Green was doing then I think he outsmarted himself and he should have taken Ben.
All that being said, I am not interested in a coach that always makes the right move because they don't exist. I am just interested in a very good coach that gives us a chance to win it all.
I think Green is the closest thing this franchise has had in the modern era of doing that.
He is not the best possible choice but he is about as good as this franchise could be expected to do.