Originally posted by LeProfessionnel:
I like Hoyer, I think he's the best bridge QB that was available. The best fit. Especially since he has played with Shanahan before. Over his last 16 games he played like Alex Smith but with a better deep ball. Maybe Cutler could get more production in a Shanahan offense but I'll take Hoyer over Cutler at this point. Esp after the 2016 season and... Jays attitude sucks. Don't want that on a new team.
Like Shanahan said, Hoyer is a guy that will execute plays as written up and that's clutch when you're installing a new offense.
We were "lucky" to get him when we did. He's not going to be our franchise QB but I think he'll be a key player that hekps this new era get started and for that I'll give him respect. (Unless he absolutely blows on Sundays)
Lacking a true no1 WR I don't think we should put high expectations on him. We're not looking for top 10 QB play, or even top 15 (although top 15 would be good), we're looking to get the o-line, WR's, TE's and RB's flowing in the new offense.
You can't do that with Gabbernick.
And remember, LeP, that the one very FIRST move that kyle and john made, was to get a QB kyle felt comfortable with, and thus subsequently and wisely, took QB off the board as a player we HAD TO HAVE...ie as the 2nd player off the board in draft. Kyle has just told us there were NO Qbs that could be yr 1 starters, so he and John went about making a fix for this yr, (including backup, no less), so they could concentrate on the multiple other holes we had on both O and D. In the retrospectoscope, it was a brilliant move, as opposed to CHI, et al, those taking QBs early on who really , truly did not deserve being picked anywhere near that high. That served us well , loading up on D initially, and then spreading our picks around the board.
The OTHER neat thing was fixing the OL in FA, wiht the Zut, and then Jusczyk. We also got a vet swing OLineman, thus insuring we didn't have to fix the OL in the draft, where, once again, like QBs, there wasn't real deserving talent. Now one could say john and kyle got lucky, but to me that was just brilliance in planning. Other teams could have done the same, but instead relied on a poor draft board for both QB and OL. John and kyle fixed it prior to draft so we didn't ahve to worry about either slot being filled by a substandard QB or OL. And that was also part of the brilliance of the draft. You don't hear talking heads mentioning what those two did prior to draft, but it was damn important to us...and allowed us to concerntrate on getting the talent we needed at so many other slots, being completely unconcerned about QB and OL. That was a slick, smart, move. And it made for a draft where we literally had great picks all the way thru. They may have been draft virgins, but you never would ahve known it. They looked like the pros from Dover.