Over the past year, so many of you argued that JP would improve this team if he started. Now, many of you and the Bills are taking a different tack.
I was hoping to win now. Based on what many of you now say, we may as well just treat this year as the year when we are going to sacrifice our previous team goal of advancing to the playoffs and beyond so that one player (JP) can learn how to play the NFL game.
I wanted to go to the playoffs this year. I had hoped that the Bills made the decision to hand control of the offense to a guy (who had no meaningful experience in an NFL regular season game) because they actually thought it would achieve that goal this year.
Either the Bills (and many of you) were wrong about whether JP would improve the team this year or the Bills made the decision for future years.
I disagreed with the Bills decision (and many of you), because I did not think that JP was ready yet. It is the most difficult position in the NFL and perhaps in sports. I like JP and think that he has some talent and is a good guy. Unfortunately, the first three games have shown that he is not ready yet. I would have preferred to keep the other guy (who is now the top rated QB in the NFC) to maximize our chance of success this year, improve our offensive line, and give JP the time that he needs.
Instead, we have no choice but to give JP the on the job training that he needs and consider this a throw away year unless something drastically changes. Having an inexperienced QB and a mediocre (at best) o-line is a recipe for a bad season.
I really hope that JP and the rest of the team can turn it around this year (hopefully beginning this Sunday) so that we can have some meaningful games in December.