“I’m not making excuses for him, and I’m as hard on him as anybody, but you miss a month of training camp where you get all of the basics, you don’t play in any exhibition games and come into this league and try to perform, that is difficult to do. I’m giving him a mulligan on that one. This is nowhere near what he can be and will be as a player. There is just so much to learn, so much to go through for him and the team when your quarterback is down a little bit. He has a lot of growing to do but I have all of the confidence in the world he is going to get there because of his ability and IQ.”