Don't know if you caught the interview but he was actually asked the question "why hasn't Heard got a legit look at started QB, and do you feel it is to late"
his answer was it's never to late and said he doesn't know if that's the direction they want to go due to the speed of Shane recovery but if it gets drawn out a couple more weeks then he will get a legit shot.... see that complete opposite of even last week. Heard is proving something to these coaches. That's a fact
I just finished reading the transcript. Complete 180 from his thoughts when he arrived! I'll take it!
On Jerrod Heard's role this week: Big. Hopefully maybe even bigger than last week, not in terms of plays. Hopefully we can get a couple of those plays off the ground that kind of got stuffed. But, no, this is a guy -- I think it's important that whenever Shane gets healthy, fully healthy, I would envision you'll see Jerrod in most every game behind center at some point. When Shane is fully healthy, that will allow him to maybe go back and devote most of his practice time and meeting time to playing wide receiver. But knowing that we can jog him back there and take some snaps and add a change of pace for the defense, I think is a weapon. The good thing about him, which is different than most wildcat quarterbacks is he can throw the football.He played quarterback here at a very high level for a couple of years. So I think that dimension of it is a lot different than most that jog a running back or a wide receiver back there. This is a guy that's played college quarterback for a couple years. So if you want to put a bunch of human beings in the box to stop the run, he's capable of throwing it over your head.
On it being too late for Jerrod Heard to be a QB: I don't think it's ever too late. Is that the direction we want to head? I don't know, because I think we're still very optimistic on the speed and shortness of time for Shane's recovery. Now if this thing drags on for a couple weeks, I think that's when you've got to say, okay, big boy, let's go give you, instead of a package, you're going to learn how to play quarterback.Two very different things though rather than memorizing a couple plays versus knowing the entire offense and executing it, and managing the game.So I think, you know, was it eight carries for 39 yards and we're already making those kind of assertions, I think is a little bit premature. 0 for 1 throwing, I think, right? Something like that. So I definitely think that's premature, but it's not out of the realm of possibility for him to grow in that role should we need him to?
