Ok but he did that twice just last year. He brought in DA, then benched him for his guy Hall, and then benched him for Skelton.
And he drafted Skelton.
I personally think Skelton is a guy who's another year or 2 out before he'll be viable but if he somehow is better than Kolb right now I just don't see why Whiz would ride with Kolb when he didn't with DA.
It's a lot different when you give up picks and pay him over 60 million dollars.
KC has a terrible bout of this happen to them with Marty here, we had just given Elvis a huge deal, and we had Rich Gannon.
Elvis gets hurt, Gannon goes on a tear, then right before the playoffs Elvis comes back, we played Elvis, we lost and the reasoning behind it was almost entirely to do with the contract, ie you don't bench a guy making that much money or you'll be admiting failure.
An interesting aside to this, Elvis stunk it up so bad in the playoff game he came back in they put Gannon in the late 2nd half, he furiously almost rallied the team to win the game.
That dynamic has never been here where we've payed that much for a guy and benched him for performance.
Whis even said you don't lose your job to injury so no matter how well Skelton plays we'll see Kolb again this year when he's healthy.
I think if he seriously outplayed Kolb they'd find a way to make the switch if they were rock solid sure, but there's almost no way Skelton plays that much better to force that IMO.
The Gannon / Elvis thing was so obvious everyone saw it except Marty.
I guess my point is even if Skelton is measurably better it won't be enough to win him the job, he'll have to be a ton better.
