Wayne Arnold

Yes. I didn't anticipate 5 interceptions in one half. Peterman experienced the exact same thing in college. He'll be fine. A veteran quarterback who performed terribly in his previous start. With the way the defense is performing, the team's QB can't be checking down or eating the ball. He has to take chances, which Peterman did (obviously to poor results). It was the wrong decision in hindsight ("Hindsight is 20/20.") but stop pretending as if it was some sort of travesty.

Yesterday was basically a home game. Neutral site at worst. No one is calling it a media conspiracy. I take great offense to the Trump comparison. I'm not related to or married to any of these players. Why would I be biased? Dennison is a dead man walking.

Taylor doesn't turn the ball over. That's what he's good at. Instead, he results in punts (except for his fumble-touchdown yesterday). And when the defense is playing as poorly as it is, there's little-to-no difference between throwing an interception and punting the ball to the opponent.

Not if Taylor was a rookie replacing the mediocre third-year starter who was taking us nowhere.

Not excuses. Analysis.

He looked pretty competent until our fullback let a ball go through his hands and into the arms of a defender. He shouldn't have thrown the second pick but it didn't result in anything worse than punting from the 1. The third pick was Jordan Mills being Jordan Mills. The fourth pick he was run into by Shady as he was throwing. By the fifth pick he was shell-shocked. A mixture of bad luck, terrible teammates, and inexperience. Should the coaching staff have seen that coming? Debatable.

The odd crucifixion of Sean McDermott by the media simply because he decided to try something different by seeing if a rookie QB could spark the offense is strange to me...but far from surprising. I'm always on football coaches (especially in the NFL) for being too conservative. I call most of them gutless meatheads because they ignore analytics when they punt on 4th and 2 from the opponent's 39 yard line. But it's obvious why they are the way they are. Because football coaches are much more likely to be ridiculed when they go for it and don't convert than they are when they punt. Coaches who take risks put themselves out there. And are blasted when that risk doesn't work out. Meanwhile, the coaches who never take risks are able to skate by with little attention. Sure, they'll rarely succeed...but they at least keep their jobs and collect a paycheck for a while before getting fired. And I'm sick of people treating the quarterback position like something sacred. As if replacing the starting QB for a game (or even just a half) is some sort of travesty like the coach is destroying the sanctity of football by doing it. It's one position. If the QB plays poorly then the next guy should be given a chance. Who cares? Say what you want about McDermott - but I applaud him for his willingness to try something to turn around an anemic offense. It didn't work and it was wrong. McDermott went for it and the conversion failed.

Yeah they should've turned over 100% of the roster in one offseason.

I don't think anyone is excusing Dennison. He's on the hot seat. But this isn't exactly a stacked roster he's working with.

Ugh. You have to be joking.

Let's not pretend Taylor is flawless just because Peterman had a historically bad first outing. Receivers are open for great quarterbacks even when it looks like they aren't. Peterman was finding guys to throw to for the most part - he just was getting annihilated in the process. In fact, maybe today really did have a silver lining: I never saw Taylor as aggressive with downfield throws in limited time than today. Like he had nothing to lose. (Except for his fumble). Maybe we'll see more aggressiveness from him as a result of the benching.

The difference between the two is that Peterman is already throwing by the time Mills' man is crushing him. Taylor holds the ball too long to be throwing by then.

You're entitled to your opinion.

The team lost the game with those turnovers. Not just Peterman. When guys are letting footballs go through their hands off their face into the hands of defenders for pick 6's and the OLine can't put a single finger on Bosa before he blows up the rookie QB and our starting running back runs into our rookie QB as he's throwing the ball, it's not just on one guy.

Peterman still threw for more yards in one half than Taylor threw the entire game last week. Just sayin...

I thought he should have given Taylor the next two games at least. Was shocked to see McDermott pull the trigger so soon. Obviously it was the wrong decision. But I'm over it. Peterman isn't nearly as bad as the box score shows today. I'm still fully supportive of McDermott.

Oh yeah that defense was just terrible before Dareus arrived. End of sarcasm.

ESPN has an NFL show?! Who knew??

The hilarity ensues!

The hilarity ensues!

Maybe because they are legitimate reasons. Ever think of that?

Well that's not very nice.

I'll lower my expectations.

This is !@#$ing idiotic.

You sound very impartial.