So doing too little is not what the offense represents. Doing too much is gonna get you sacked. And anything in between is too mediocre?

Where exactly in this spectrum do we want to be?

what part of his play has shown he’s a pro bowler? he leads in interceptions and fumbles. if this guy were a 1st or 2nd year player, i’d think he’d get a pass but heres the deal; he’s 30. he’s been in the league way to long to make the kind of mistakes he does. he has no feel for the pass rush. Given, the 9ers o-line hasn’t been great but when they have given him time, he still holds on to the ball too long and throws ints when having enough time to make reads. i think he is a solid back up and nothing more. he especially is not what the 9ers need right now.

His fumbles last Sunday, for example, weren’t the result of getting the ball knocked out of his hand. Rather, the defender was just tackling him, but the ball popped out anyway.

If he could take a sack without fumbling, he might still be our starting QB.

but he still throws too many picks and at the worst of times

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O’Sullivan is … a pro bowl-caliber quarterback.

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Benching O’Sullivan was not a mistake. It was the best thing that could have happened to this team. It didn’t happen because O’Sullivan wasn’t living up to his potential, either. It happened because he’s a moron. He constantly makes bad reads, holds on (loosely) to the ball for far too long, and regularly tries to make plays that simply aren’t there.

He doesn’t force the ball into triple coverage because he wants to win so badly. He does it because he’s overconfident, or just doesn’t see the defenders.

It’s not like he thought he could throw that ball against Seattle through the saftey….he just managed to completely misread the coverage and decide, before the snap, to throw the ball to a spot – a spot that was later occupied by a defender. A mistake he has made several times this year.

To put it simply, JTO is not very good – and has failed to get any better in the face of countless mistakes. It is his inability to improve and learn from his own mistakes that has earned him a warm spot on the bench.

ctrl+a → open MS Word → ctrl+v → ctrl+f → replace tab → find: O’Sullivan → replace with: [name of QB] → replace all → profit.

O’Sullivan is talented. He’s good. He’s a pro bowl-caliber quarterback. He is on his way.

Christ, that is almost too stupid to respond to, but somehow I felt compelled. O’Sullivan is a QB that the Detroit Lions had no use for and the 49ers picked up off the scrap heap. Occasionally diamonds are found in the rough, but more often than not when you search the rough for a QB you find a guy who goes on to lead the league in interceptions and fumbles. O’Sullivan is probably somewhere around the 37th or 38th best QB in the NFL, those guys are not typically referred to as “pro bowl-caliber.”

To paraphrase Mike Nolan, throw out the turnovers and JT’s a great quarterback, definitely pro-bowl worthy. And in the 2nd two games of the season, that was the case, and the team was looking frisky as a result. Except the turnovers have returned and they’ve stayed. I do think that he locks onto receivers—3 times he’s thrown end-zone picks to a double-covered slot receiver. Those are absolutely killer. Find the single-covered guy, already! Look, he’s got mobility, a quick release and more than adequate arm strength, and Shaun Hill lacks two of those things. What Hill does is work through the progressions quickly—that’s a skill that JT seems to lack. The problem with a Martz offense is that it seems to make the QB so confident that the receiver will uncover that it encourages one to lock on as JT seems to do.

This shouldn’t come off as a blanket apology for Hill, though, because some confidence that a guy will uncover is necessary if you want to get the ball down the field. And this is, of course, vital because the deeper passing game opens up the running game by preventing the safeties from creeping up into the box. Also, getting the ball down the field makes the difficulties posed by dropped passes, stuffed runs, and bad throws easier to deal with because you aren’t locked into a ‘we need all 3 downs’ schedule.

So we’re hooped for this year. JT turns the ball over, so he can’t win for us. And the moment teams figure out that Hill can’t throw the ball more than 6 yards they’ll play short zones, stack the line and shut down the running game, so he can’t win for us.

Is it too late to tank for the rest of the season, to lobby Colt McCoy to come out of college, and then to get our first round draft pick taken away for tampering?