I was the one who had predicted doom for leinhart as a checkdown guy. This is not a caretakers offense and schaub was not game managing. With AJ out half the year he still had like 6 TDs of 50+ yards. We were a very scary passing team as proven by the fact that teams still didn't bring an extra guy up weeks 7-10 with AJ gone. NFL defenses fear the big play more than anything and schaub gave it to us, making our run game and OL look better.
Yates may be able to give us a downfield threat, but if he doesn't we are screwed. Leinhart certainly didn't. I'd like rosenfels most because he has proven he can move a less talented version of this team up and down the field. And I think we're good enough to overcome his turnovers (which Yates likely beings to the table as well). But don't overestimate how much of our offense Yates knows. He has not dressed yet and spends his week running the opponents stuff on the scout team. It is not promising right now in terms of playing past the first round.
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