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Trent and Play Calling

Why does everyone give Trent Edwards a free pass.  I am tired of saying we are building for the future and afraid to hurt ego's.  We are not good enought to protect anyone's ego.  He turned the ball over 3 times in the 4th quarter against Miami, 3 times against the Jets.  Trent turns it over twice and until bascially McKelvin houses one to the 14 we put up 3 with GREAT FIELD POSITION.  Sorry, he deserves to have his job evaluated and I would hope JP would start next week.  Trent is supposed to control the clock, we are last in the NFL in drives of 10 plays or more with 9.  JP never had a line, now Trent is learning what that is like.  He needs to avoid the rush, he needs to make good decisions, he doesn't have the physical ability to be an avg decision maker...that is why he plays because he is suppose to think out there.   THis is the NFL and players need to be men and accountable.  Unfortunately for Edwards the QB is the most criticized position.

This is not a player who has done it before this is a 3rd round draft pick who threw a terrible pick against the Boys last year and could only score 3 points on the road against the Jets last year b/f JP came in.  Last year we gave him a free pass the last few games due to the weather.  Everyone wants him to be Brady but he isn't.  If you really break down his games this year the only game he was really solid was the Chargers.  Believe it or not hte Chargers might have the worst D in the NFL.  Seattle it was special teams and D, Jax he had a great opening drive and 4th quarter but an awful middle.  Rams he was nonexistant in the first half and we won thanks to a Greer int that changed the game.  He says the correct things...PERSONALLY I WANT HIM TO SUCCEED...I LIKE TRENT...but maybe the reality is he is just not that good.  Was he a winner at Stanford...NOpe.

Today's game he missed balls to Lynch, threw hard when he needed to place it is a spot, when he tried to be accurate he misplaced (I remeber bad balls to Parrish and Hardy).   He took sacks, he turned it over.  But it not just today's game it has been the last 3 and most of the Oakland games, 2.5 quarters on the Jax game, half the Rams game, and half the Seahawks game.  Again...If you say we are building for a future...OK...Trent stays on the fielf good or bad, but then accept this season is done.  I for one am tired of the execuse that we are building for the future.  I want to win now.  I think the D is good enough to get us a wildcard spot.  I want JP even if I know it stunts Trent's growth and knowing JP is gone next year because I think he gives us the best chance to win this year.  Maybe that is shortsighted but I am not convinced Trent is a quality QB or ever will be.

I was going to rant on the Shotgun formation, abandoning the run (was running for 7 yards on the first play not enough?), using a Timeout to punt when we could have used it at the end of the half, the botched challenge, but this post on Edwards was long enough already. 

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