What do you do when you go 0-16?

**hurdleisu24** · 09-07-2009, 01:09 PM

You start a rookie qb.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4452545

**HiltonMagic** · 09-07-2009, 01:13 PM

Who else are they going to start? Culpepper?

yeah, he sure helped them win games last year.

**Clones21** · 09-07-2009, 01:17 PM

Its probably the right thing to do..Staffords got a rocket arm

**sodakjoe** · 09-07-2009, 01:20 PM

Hey, it can't hurt, right?

**tyrelrobert** · 09-07-2009, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by HiltonMagic

Who else are they going to start? Culpepper?

yeah, he sure helped them win games last year.

I think the lions have some more trash for sale - Jerry interested in getting rid of some more draft picks

**richey24** · 09-07-2009, 01:57 PM

Stafford will be better than Culpepper, if not now then soon.

**Dave19642006** · 09-08-2009, 01:46 AM

Bad bad bad move

**Juggercy** · 09-08-2009, 01:50 AM

yea you might get to go 1-15 this year

**jdoggivjc** · 09-08-2009, 09:55 AM

Yeah, I guess they learned nothing from starting Joey Harrington from the git go. Maybe Harrington wasn't meant to be an NFL QB, but having your confidence wrecked from the very beginning because you had to play behind a Lion's O-line certainly helped out in the process of him becoming the basketcase that he is today.

**Clones85'** · 09-08-2009, 09:57 AM

Stafford has all the tools but IMO he is not a winner. Doesn't have the intangibles.

**keepngoal** · 09-08-2009, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by jdoggivjc

Yeah, I guess they learned nothing from starting Joey Harrington from the git go. Maybe Harrington wasn't meant to be an NFL QB, but having your confidence wrecked from the very beginning because you had to play behind a Lion's O-line certainly helped out in the process of him becoming the basketcase that he is today.

This. It has ruined many a good young QB. As soon as you have the hebbie-jeebies in the pocket that early in your career, you have it forever. The best thing a rookie QB can do is sit and watch for 4 years.... absorb, learn, play but not be that have to have player.

**Dryburn** · 09-08-2009, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by jdoggivjc

Yeah, I guess they learned nothing from starting Joey Harrington from the git go. Maybe Harrington wasn't meant to be an NFL QB, but having your confidence wrecked from the very beginning because you had to play behind a Lion's O-line certainly helped out in the process of him becoming the basketcase that he is today.

Yeah, people out here still talk about what happened to Harrington. He never got a chance to learn anything before getting thrown into the fire. Some guys can handle that, he obviously didn't. It could happen again. You just never know.....Falcons and Ravens did okay with rookies last year.

**Chizit** · 09-08-2009, 06:37 PM

In other words, you start over.

The only way to go is up........... i guess.

**CycloneErik** · 09-08-2009, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by keepngoal

This. It has ruined many a good young QB. As soon as you have the hebbie-jeebies in the pocket that early in your career, you have it forever. The best thing a rookie QB can do is sit and watch for 4 years.... absorb, learn, play but not be that have to have player.

That would be my concern for Stafford. This could get really ugly for him.

**Jeremy** · 09-08-2009, 07:15 PM

If the kid can handle it and learn while doing it, he should be in there since he's their future.

But there is also the side of it that keep mentions where some players can't handle it and it ruins them.

Each player is different and the situation can really only be handled with an indepth knowledge of Stafford and his mindset.