Originally Posted by
texaschief
I think we need to have this conversation sometime between the end of the season and the draft. There won't be a QB on the free agent market who has a better projection as a franchise QB than Tyler Thigpen, so those guys are out.
Thigpen has definitely earned the job until the end of the season. I think taking his progression one step at a time is the way to go here. I think that once defenses watch more film on our offense and figure out things that work against him and figure out ways to get pressure on him again, we could see the QB we saw against Atlanta re-emerge.
We are going into week 10. The Chiefs are currently 1-8 and have 7 more games. That gives him 11 games on the season to evaluate him as a starting QB. While it's not an entire season, it's definitely a good look at what he can do on this level. The Chiefs came into the 2008 season wanting to evaluate a QB and figure out if he was going to be the QBOTF. While it wasn't the QB the Chiefs expected, they're getting that goal accomplished.
I think identifying Thigpen was one of the shrewdest moves this front office has made since Herm has been here. The Chiefs identified him in 2007 as the guy they were going to take in the 7th round before the Vikings snatched him up. The Vikings knew what they had and tried to hide him during their joint training camp week. They thought they could get him thru waivers and the Chiefs pounced. I'm not sure who identified him, but they were right on with this guy. For a 7th rounder, he's surpassed all expectations to this point. Who knows, we might have found our Brady.
Thigpen is the Chiefs' Quarterback of the Present and that's where we need to leave it until week 17. (barring a miracle)
Trying to make arguments for or against this guy is just in vein until the last week of the season because the guy could come out and totally blow up your argument for or against him in the very next game. So, let's just put this discussion on the back burner for a month or so.
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