re: Miles: QB situation not settled

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I still can't figure out why anyone would choose to start lee over jefferson...

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Maybe if Lee looked like a better QB than Jefferson?

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lee just seemed like he was playing scared.

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Not in 2009.

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jefferson seemed like a leader.

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Not in 2009.

There's 6 months between now and opening day, and it will have been nine months since either of them have played when we open the 2009 season. I believe Jefferson is clearly most likely to be the best QB come September. But it is obviously foolish to assume that it will necessarily be the case. Justin Vincent clearly outperformed Ally Broussard in 2003 (and by a much wider margin and with a much larger sample size), and yet the two players were different enough by the next season that Broussard was the clearly superior player in 2004. And "why" Vincent or Broussard were not the player in '04 that they were in '03 is not the point; the point is that it can happen. So anyone who insists that there is no way Lee could legitimately earn the starting spot in '09 over Jefferson is clearly ignorant of the realities of football. And the irony is that so many of the people making that absurd assertion are lashing out with such harsh denouncing of the reasonable people who understand and accept the reality that no one really knows for sure what kind of player either of them will be next year.