He also has numerous years under his belt in the mean time. Playing QB in the NFL is very difficult and he's been a consistent learner, but if we had kept around and waited for him to get to this level, I suspect there would have been lots of complaints of wasted seasons hoping he's the guy while we could have signed such and such free agent.

His o-line looked a lot better than ours, as did his WRs and TEs. Better play calling, too.