[76lsjumb]

Hey...if we go asiNINE and 3, I don't care who the quesrterback is. 

Maybe Shaw should look at the bright side -- if he's fielding "a hundred questions" about changing QB's, he's probably not having to deal any more with questions about why he decided to put in Williamson to kick the field goal in the Fiesta Bowl...

Also, it seems to me a "better" way to have your QB's back is to say, at least in public, that the coaching staff needs to make the right calls to put him in a position to succeed, or something like that.  Tell him in private whatever you want, but relying on the old straw man argument in public [as FarmBoy's first reaction notes] really comes off as defensive, not confident.  Plus, given Nunes' "last in the conference" ratings, it doesn't come across as particularly credible.

Now, if he had been talking about bronzing Tavita's arm after the Greatest Upset Ever, I'd say Do It!

I'm not sure I agree, though, that the media is giving Nunes "a pass."  My sense is that the media are loving -- and stoking -- the QB controversy between Nunes and Nottingham.  Indeed, I'll bet that's what rankles Shaw.  I'm not saying it isn't a legitimate story; I'm just saying that I don't perceive the media as being "in the tank" for Nunes.

[76lsjumb]

Hey...if we go asiNINE and 3, I don't care who the quesrterback is. 

Maybe Shaw should look at the bright side -- if he's fielding "a hundred questions" about changing QB's, he's probably not having to deal any more with questions about why he decided to put in Williamson to kick the field goal in the Fiesta Bowl...

Also, it seems to me a "better" way to have your QB's back is to say, at least in public, that the coaching staff needs to make the right calls to put him in a position to succeed, or something like that.  Tell him in private whatever you want, but relying on the old straw man argument in public [as FarmBoy's first reaction notes] really comes off as defensive, not confident.  Plus, given Nunes' "last in the conference" ratings, it doesn't come across as particularly credible.

Now, if he had been talking about bronzing Tavita's arm after the Greatest Upset Ever, I'd say Do It!

I'm not sure I agree, though, that the media is giving Nunes "a pass."  My sense is that the media are loving -- and stoking -- the QB controversy between Nunes and Nottingham.  Indeed, I'll bet that's what rankles Shaw.  I'm not saying it isn't a legitimate story; I'm just saying that I don't perceive the media as being "in the tank" for Nunes.