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Originally Posted by barrett
Do you truly believe he thinks Keenum will play next year? Or do you think he likes that Keenum takes a bit of heat off, while Schaub just makes people angrier?
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I believe he thinks the Schaub ship sailed weeks ago and should have never come into port again. I believe he thinks Keenum is the only QB on his payroll that even has a remote chance of being here next year (whether you think so or not), and thus, should be playing and gaining experience regardless of the game situation or even if he's playing as poorly as Schaub has over the last 2 years. I believe he was totally disgusted with how the Jags game went down and said, screw it, lets just do this now. I believe he finally saw the light and decided he would like to get a head start on his HC interviews and it's now easier to do that with Kubiak out of the building.
Seriously, they have one home game left against the top team in the AFC with a HOF QB and an Offense on a historical pace. Do you really think he made the move or made the comments he did because he thinks he needs Keenum to fill the seats or appease the fan-base? I'm sure even McNair understands the stadium will be mostly filled because 1)season ticket holders won't want to waste the investment they made and will either go to the last home game or sell/give the tickets away, 2) local fans who couldn't afford to have the NFL stadium experience will now be able to get cheap tickets, 3)there will be a lot of Broncos fans filling those seats, or 4)all of the above.
I think it's pretty safe to assume McNair doesn't actually believe the fans (or advertisers) will flock to the stadium one last time to see Keenum play or Wade plodding down the sideline or our improved ST play now that Marciano is gone. Question the timing all you want, but saying he did it now just to appease the fans has very little merit at this point in the season. Frustration, yes. Fan appeasement, no.