[albany ed]

This is professional football, not nursery school. AR is just one member of a 55 person squad. Flacco gives the other 53 players a better chance to win. I'm not concerned about AR's fragile confidence level. He's been playing like his hair is on fire. Sit his ass on the bench, have the QB coach sit next to him and comment on every play and what went right or what went wrong. If he can learn to keep his head when there is bedlam around him, he just might make a good QB after all. Have him work in practice on all the mechanics, teach him how to read the defense, make him understand that he's supposed to be the leader and the one who inspires the others. In baseball, a young player with enormous potential gets sent down to work out the deficiencies and then brought back up. In the NFL, there is no minor leagues, so the player is either sat down or you let him fail and fail and fail. These failings are very unfair to the rest of the team. I watch every game hoping they win, and right now, the chances of that happening are better with Flacco under center.