Rodgers is only one of a few success stories in today's NFL that had to sit before he started. But he sat behind Favre, Hoyer ( and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong ) is a far cry from Fave. Lets go over them shall we.
AFC North
Cincy - Dalton - day one
Balt - Flacco - day one
Pitt - Ben came in later as a rookie, Maddux started
Clev- Hoyer CAREER BACK-UP
NFC North
Det - Stafford - day one
Chi - Cutler - came in later as a rookie, Plummer started
Minn - Castle - career back-up
G.B. - Rodgers - Sat 4 years behind a Hall Of Famer
AFC South
Indy - Luck - day one
Jax - Henne - pretty sure he didint start as a rook and is basically a career back-up
Hou - ??????? Who knows what they are doing down there. Jeesh we think its rough here.
Tenn - Locker - came in later as a rookie, Hasselbeck started
NFC South
N.O. - Brees - day one
Car - Cam - day one
Atl - Ryan - day one
T.B. - McCown - career back-up
AFC East
N.E. - Brady - came in later as a rookie, Bledsoe Started
Miami - Tannehill - day one
Jets - Vick - day one, Smith - came in later as a rookie, Sanchez started
Buff - Manuel - day one
NFC East
Wash - RGIII - day one
Giants - Manning - day one
Dallas - Romo - sat 3 years behind Bledsoe
Phi - Foles - Came in later as a rookie, Vick started
AFC West
Den - Manning - day one
K.C. - Smith - day one
S.D. - Rivers - sat one year behind Future Hall Of Famer Brees
Oak - Schaub - Started as a back-up to Vick in Atl for a few years before gettin to start.
NFC West
Seattle - Wilson - day one
S.F. - Cap - came in later as a rookie, Alex smith started
Ari - Palmer - sat one year behind John Kitna in Cincy
Rams - Bradford - day one
15 of the 32 starting QB's in the NFL today all started their first game on opening day of their rookie seasons. The time of sitting your 1st round drafted QB are long gone. We needed to start Johnny and let him grow with the team on the field. not grow with the number 2's in practice. I personally think not doing so is a mistake by Pettine and will only slow Johnny's growth down. Obviously if almost half of the starters in the NFL have achieved this than it works. Almost a 50% chance of success. Couch has probably been our best QB since our return And outside of Weeden he is the only one we have let just go out there and play from day one. I guess its a either piss or get off the pot scenario for me. I say we absolutely should have went with Johnny