I think everyone is on board with playing Boyle now. But it's lunacy to scream about how in-game production should matter when Boyle's in-game numbers are brutal.
I'm not on board with that.
I cannot come up with a rationalization or explanation that I want to believe for what we have been doing all season long with the QB position, going all the way back to August and that public announcement Diaco made with Cochran and Whitmer. That doesn't mean there isn't an explanation. The only explanation I can come up with, is that this entire 2014 season has been essentially a long scrimmage/practice session for the offense and we aren't really installing a specific offense conceptually until next season. I don't like that explanation, it makes me mad, and therefore I choose to ignore as much as I can, and not accept that explanation.
If at this point, now that we've pissed away enough wins to fail to get to a bowl game for yet another year, Diaco fundamentally changes the way he's built this 2014 program to play the game on offense, it will make me cause my ass explode in a ball of fire. The guy you see running around the concourse at Rentschler with his ass on fire on Saturday night will be me.
Right or wrong, good or bad, short term or long term - Diaco chose a program/offensive system for this 2014 team. Short term, the results have been bad in contributing to wins. Long term? TBD. I have no idea WTF his offensive concepts are, and how he wants to approach the game offensively to win games. What he's done makes no sense to me to develop any consistency, discipline and reliability on offense. Through 9 games, I don't think I'm off-base I my analysis. Come next season, 18 games? We'll see.
For now - it's 1 game ahead- the first game we've got where season goals are significantly altered. If he changes something now, all it does is make everything he did prior - even more insane.
I fully expect to see Whitmer starting, and get the majority of game reps.....Boyle to come in at some point 2nd or 3rd Quarter - and get his own possession to do something - and he'll stay on the field as long as he keeps that single possession alive, and that Boyle experiement will involve play calling that are completely unrelated to actually flow of the game, and that Foxx will get some direct snaps through the course of the game, and that he will probably let one fly this game, because Army pretty much demonstrated how to defend everything else that Foxx does on film.
that's what we've developed on offense all season long. Why? I have no f----king idea why you would want to do this - but it's what we've done. To change it now? Why the duck did you do it in the first place? Too much to wrap my head around, rather light my ass on fire.