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I agree, I would like Cade as a backup over Lainez. But if what you say is true, then that means Cade did not get benched because of injury, he got benched because of his play.
So I see all of these arguments about playing the wrong guy. I don't really have a position on this because the analysis almost always has to lean into the assumption that the preferred option was capable of delivering at the level they did a year or so in advance. Even this change isn't completely settled yet given that that Sullivan only has just over 2 quarters of experience upon which to measure his superiority to Cade. I already was of the opinion that Cade was bad and Kirk needed to at least try something else.
With that said,it really doesn't matter whether a better option was possibly available in a given year. Four straight years of some of the some of the worst QB play in the country tells me all I need to know about Kirk's abilities with respect to the most important position by far in the game. He simply doesn't know what he's doing on that side of the ball and if he was really as smart as a lot of people here give him credit for, he would hand the baton to Lester and let him make every final decision regarding recruiting and personnel.
If you think Marco is anywhere close to ready to play meaningful snaps in a B1G game....I don't know what to tell you....
The game plan all along was to get Sully non-red zone snaps/series. I think the pick 6 hastened it along, so I wouldn't necessarily say Cade was "benched" so much as they were already planning on getting Sully in. But Sully playing the entire 2nd half was due in part to Cade's injury and due in part to his command of the game in the 2nd half.
He's in a lot better "game shape" than Marco is.....I can assure you of that.....
Actually you can't, but that's ok. Everyone is entitled to their uninformed opinion.
He doesn’t have the wins record, but I could picture a young coach taking over a blue blood for 20 years and reaching him. Heck, it could be Ryan Day.
But they could play B1G football for another 10,000 years and no one will ever be allowed to lose nearly as many games as KF.
It's just ridiculous that a QB that's now been in the system for almost 2 full years is supposedly nowhere near ready to see the field in this super complicated pro style offense, where the average receiver catches 2 passes a game. That's one of 2 things. We either never should have recruited him or we can't coach QB's.
