re: Can we as a fan base not recognize that young QB's develop over time?

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I never said that they were "wrong", moron. You present them in an incomplete way. Let's take Jefferson's career for example, and let's keep in mind that (I'm assuming) this is your argument that Cam's doing a good job.

Your cute graphic: shows a trend line from Jefferson's worst season to his best season (senior year) and that's all the evidence you need to believe that Cam did a bang up job

Reality: Jefferson had a terrible freshman year. He got substantially better his sophomore year when Cam showed up and had a 138 QB rating. He got substantially worse again his junior year and had his worst TD:INT ratio of his career and had a similar rating to his freshman year. Then his senior year was almost identical to his sophomore year with a 138 QBR, but wait, he only had 100 attempts and a disproportionate amount of those were against inferior competition and the people around him were substantially better than 2012.

So yea, your stats are incomplete and biased when you present nothing but a trend line from Jefferson's sophomore to his senior year QB rating. And let's keep in mind that at a lot of programs, when Jefferson was busy compiling an awful 114 QBR his junior year, a lot of guys are fully developed and going pro.

I mean if you think that going from bad to mediocre to bad to mediocre again is great QB development on Cam's end then I'm not sure what to tell you, especially when our relatively talented QB's like Jefferson have 10 INT's to 7 TD's and a 114 QBR their junior years. That's awful and should be noted when you're praising Cam for "improving guys from their sophomore to senior years"

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