Well... it obviously wasn't the right call to turn to him now because we don't know what could have been with Hoyer and we could be still talking playoffs.
Hoyer played himself out of the line up. The coaching staff had no other choice. In the end, it was not the right time to throw Johnny in because he ended up playing more poorly than Hoyer had all season.
That's a statistical fact.
It was nearly impossible to justify sticking with Hoyer (and I like him) with how terrible he's been playing lately.
There's no way, anyone, can seriously tell me they're confident we would have won the game with Hoyer either. Not the Hoyer we've seen recently!
Very few people, like myself, seriously saw this as going to Manziel, was a move in trying to fix everything that was going wrong. This was clearly a default move that had to be made.
People aren't living in reality, if they really thought Manziel was going to go in and save the day.
But yeah, I don't think some of us imagine it being much worse either. But it's really silly to look back in hindsight, with how bad Hoyer has been struggling, to truly believe the result would have been better, resulting in a win with him today.
There was nothing to lose going to Johnny at this point. Nothing at all. That doesn't change just because Johnny completely bombed today.
Brian Hoyer was showing no signs, at all, of being able to get it done lately. The way the game went today, the result would have still been the same, and that's a loss. Whether he would have scored, or not, who really cares. We still got our asses kicked, it's all the same.
