Matt Waldman brought up a story that might give you some hope. Drew Brees was benched at least once during the season and I think multiple times in his first year starting in San Diego under Marty Schottenheimer. Schottenheimer told him something like "Look Drew, you're the guy and the future here and I am only taking you out because 1) I don't want you getting overwhelmed, 2) I want to win in the short run, and 3) you are struggling today. You're going to fix it but not in-game today." Brees took it in stride because Schotty handled it like that. He was clear with him in the here and now moment of the game but also let him know that he was still the future. Brees credits Schotty and they way he handled that temporary benching as something that helped him grow and develop. Schotty didn't play head games with him. I think Flores is handling it more like that - or at least I hope so. He has every right to. Tua was comped to Brees so it would be fitting if Flores took a page out of Schotty's development page with Brees and applied it to Tua?
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This was his chart pre-draft from Ben Solak at thedraftnetwork.com (Here is a
link to the Full Contextualized QB Guide which is worth the $10 membership imo).
What you will see is that Tua's accuracy and placement drops dramatically when he is not going to his first read. While most QBs have this drop (it's natural) his rates were among the lowest of the class and a notable concern even though you are looking at relatively small sample sizes. It seems like that is still a problem today. What do you all think?
HT: some of you might mentioned the 2nd read thing on another platform and wanted to make sure I give credit where it is due.