And there it is. David Hale's QB room rankings drop and we are sitting in the middle of the pack again. I remember when we did not need a national writer to tell us what we had under center. You knew in the spring. You knew because the kid had been in the system for two years running the scout team and earning his stripes. Now it is all about who you can pull out of the portal in June and how fast they can learn the playbook on a tablet. That is not how you build a quarterback. That is how you rent one for a season and pray it works.
The portal killed the developmental quarterback. It killed the idea of a kid sitting and learning and growing into the job. We used to have battles that lasted from January all the way through August and the winner was the one who earned the huddle. Now a guy loses a spring scrimmage and he is gone before the summer cookout. I do not care what tier Hale put us in. I care about who is still here in September when the heat turns up and the other team is ...