That's the thing though, I don't know if he's even a decent backup. I have no interest in putting people down, especially our own guys. I'm almost always the kind of person who gives the benefit of the doubt/Homer's a guy who I shouldn't a la James Proche for years now.
Anyway, this is just a guess because I'm just some guy and don't know anything. Huntley only looked ok in the bears and Browns games. In both of those games the other team was prepared for a Lamar Jackson offense and there was no tape on Huntley. With each successive week where the opponent had more understanding of what a Tyler Huntley offense could do, he was basically shut down altogether ESPECIALLY in the redzone.
By the end there he was playing awful against an awful team. People are just so high on him and I can't see him as anything other than a backup that won't embarrass you, but you'll probably lose 9 out of 10 games with.
Maybe that's all you can ask for out of a backup QB in the NFL. I could accept that, it's hard to win with your staring QB. But to say move on from Lamar for Huntley is the kind of stuff that makes me mad because for the same reason you say don't rag on your own players, it's just so disrespectful to LJ
im not sure - i think huntley's fine right now as the backup
in my view the backup's someone who should be able to keep the offence on track and on schedule when the starter's out to keep the team in games and help talent perform and help the team survive the starter's absence for a couple or a few weeks
huntley was hamstrung by the injuries in the same ways as lamar and because of that we had no chance of winning with lamar out because huntley's job is to allow the rest of the team to continue performing but the rest of the team was also struggling because of the injuries and other absences so suddenly he's in a position where he has to try and carry the team more than you'd want for a backup
so id say the jury's still out on huntley - no idea if with a better OL he might have been able to do more in the redzone but he's certainly not someone who can overcome deficiencies (and tbf that's not what we should expect from a backup)