Originally posted by jonnydel:
Originally posted by 49ersRing:
Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
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Outside of a few? The previous 10 drafts (prior to this one), 9 of the 14 QBs who were drafted in the top 5 of a draft started week one. That's substantially more than "outside of a few."
Jake Locker is the only QB taken in the top 10 in the last 10 years to not be their team's starter by midway through their rookie season.
It is super rare for the rookie QBs taken at the top of the draft to not start at least some games as a rookie.
Well, to be fair, it's also not often that a qb drafted in the top 10 isn't on a team with a severe qb problem.
Ours was that we lost 2/3 of our last 3 seasons because he was on IR.
Like Joe Montana said, they traded for Steve because he(Joe) had just had a back injury and the 49ees had to protect the organization. So it makes perfect sense why they drafted Lance, to protect the organization.
That's Joe making that comparison, not me.
Agree.
and Phoenix touched a bit on the issue of confidence, that I dont think was really addressed, in my opinion. When a QB reads a defense, he's essentially guessing and anticipating the coverages and what routes will be open or not. Yes a QB can learn a lot by playing versus sitting in the film room and studying, but a QB can also lose his confidence in his guesses, if he doesn't have the success he anticipates he should have-- given a certain circumstance -- when he's forced to play the game too soon. For example a defense gives him a man look, and drops into zone. He's fooled into thinking man, and throws into the receiver running an out and up. However its actually a zone and he throws a pick because the inside DB drops into the zone instead of following his man assignment that the QB "thought" was the coverage. Now he loses a bit of confidence in his ability to read the defense in that circumstance.
In other words, given enough failures from the QBs perspective, those correct guesses and anticipatory throws might not happen because the QB doubts himself. Confidence is a fragile thing, and a QB can lose it easily and its very hard to regain it again if its lost. I think the bust rate of a QB is somewhat related to the fact that he loses confidence in himself when he's thrown to the wolves, so to speak, and suffers a lot of failure that destroys his belief in himself. It takes a special kind of mind to withstand the pressure of the media, the fans, the coaches and his own expectations in the face of constant losing and failure.
Kyle is correctly bringing Lance slowly along, giving him the occasional chances in a real game already (he played in the Lions game, for example) but he's not going to play Lance against a very good defense and risk Lance losing his confidence because the defense he faces won't give him the time to throw.
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