I agree with this, but wanted to highlight this line in particular, because I think it's a matter of not being realistic about what we had last season with Malik. Yes, given the benefit of hindsight, you can say if we complete this pass or that pass, or convert these 3rd downs, the outcome of the game changes. You can say that in literally every game and people here are...even the wins should have been blowouts. Last year at the beginning of the season everybody was so confident in the weapons we had on offense, all we needed Malik to do was manage the game and protect the football, and maybe use his mobility to pick up a few first downs here and there. Nobody was under any illusions that Rosier was going to be lighting up the scoreboard with deep bombs over the top. Nobody was thinking we were going to have to rely on him to throw 45 passes a game.
My point with Malik has never been to defend him. He turned out to be exactly what we all thought he would be. What we ended up finding out, though, is that this dynamic offense wasn't quite as explosive as we had imagined that it could allow a game manager to come in and complete a few easy passes to our speed guys in space and hand it off to our backs and walk away with 12 or 13 wins.
It is through nothing but hindsight that people can look at Rosier and lay either our successes or failures solely on him.