But, with Shaun Hill, this is an accumulation of years learning from experienced QB’s… So it’s hard to be able to compare because they are quite different. None the less, seeing those stats of Hill is quite surprising.

I do not think Hill was pulled to early. Our team is built more for a QB like Smith. The sacks for Hill were ridiculously high. That won’t happen near as much. Of course with Smith throwing the ball down field more, he will have more INT. But we’ll see how that works out.

Let the Westcoast Spread Offense begin!!!!

3135/477 !=11. It equals a relatively pedestrian 6.6 YPA, and that sacks number is huge.

Second, you’re comparing Shaun Hill’s 16 games spread over like 3 seasons with 3 different teams played by a guy who’d been in the league for 5 whole seasons before his first start to 3 guys who had just come out of college with just a training camp behind them. Suffice to say, Hill is not a rookie, nor was he in 2007. It’s not a fair comparison, at all.

Could Hill be effective in the offense we ran in the second half? Probably somewhat, but Smith is more mobile and has a stronger arm to get the ball into tighter spaces. As long as he’s not turning the ball over, he’s a better player. If he starts throwing picks left and right, it becomes a problem. However, I really, really don’t expect to see Hill back unless Smith gets injured. If Smith is performing poorly enough to get yanked, we’ll be well out of the playoff race and I’d expect they’ll go to Davis rather Hill to see what we’ve got at QB for the future (i.e. do we need to draft a future starter or a backup plan?).

For the same reason you nobody called Brady’s first year playing his rookie season.

Look, a guy sits on the bench, he plays in practice, he charts plays during games … he learns a lot. He has several preseasons to get used to the speed of the NFL game.

It’s just not equivalent.

Furthermore, as I’ve said before, you can’t expect Shaun Hill to improve for one simple reason:

QBs often improve their mental handling of the game, but very rarely their physical tools. But Shaun Hill’s mental game is already strong, so there’s not much room for improvement there. His faults are physical.

Lastly, no, I don’t expect Smith to be as good as he was in that half, but he could be a lot worse than that and still be better than Hill has been this year.

Even looking beyond that, the sack #‘s put Ryan waaaay beyond Hill. Some of those are on the o-line, and o-coordinator but I’ve seen Hill walk into way too many sacks.

  What does Shaun Hill have to do to win respect ?