Maybe now we won’t have 10 posts a day detailing how each person feels about the QB “controversy.” I don’t understand all this pro Brodie talk. He is an ok QB but has never shown the intangibles that I believe matt posesses. I was at the game Sunday and Cassell played well. One pick was a poor decision, the other was a good play by Huff.

even knowing every one of us already knew this.

i just watched Around the horn and PTI and those idiots are all for croyle but there were a couple that were also sayin croyle is garbage pointing out the fact that he is 0-9 in games he started

From a tradition that started Brady over Bledsoe, this team is not going to be hidebound about who starts. The man adjudged as better will get the start, and the other guy will hold the clipboard and help out to the best of his ability. Same as Bledsoe did. A good team will accept nothing less.

The starting QB spot SHOULD be up-for-grabs, or nearly so, with the guy who won the last game as a starter the prohibitive favorite to start the next. If it’s a cancer, then you had an unhealthy locker room and poor mgmt long before the QB thing cropped up. It’s only a controversy if the team partakes of it, and you know that this team won’t. First of all, it’s not in the character of ANY of these QBs. Cassel held a clipboard for many years before this, and would be disappointed to be demoted, but he’d keep being the man he’s already proven himself to be, and Croyle, Thigpen and Gutierrez certainly have no pretensions.

cf. KCMizzou.

Even Gretz is just repackaging Haley’s last public statements…

I think the thing with Haley is that some people just don’t like how he acts or how he looks. And everything is filtered through that impression. Myself, I don’t care what he looks like, and I just like the way he handles himself. He impresses me simply by not trying to impress me, by staying on-message, by comin’ across like I think a leader should.

I wouldn’t make a lot of the biting comments I hear him make, but I know how those guys talk to each other, and it sounds to me like somebody who speaks the players’ language. And you know? It’s my language, too. The kind of talk only BROTHERS can engage in.

Winning Sunday will cure a LOT of ills. Not winning and all the media’s going to have to say are negative things. Goes with the territory. But as a fan who loves the game, I’m seeing more and more of the kind of football I want to see. The main compromise I don’t like seeing on the field is soft secondary and too much LB-in-coverage. This is not a staff who trusts its secondary. Otherwise, the D is miles ahead of last year, and the offense looks like it’s building a complete game – no more 1-dimensionality. So I’m guardedly optimistic.