Fiasco is the springboard for your entire point.
And I have argued your point. You acted as if there wasn't a competetion for the starting job coming into the preseason. There was. Russell won...and now its a "fiasco" that he didn't sit behind a player with 2 career starts under his belt...a total of 120 more minutes experience than Russell...and it's a "fiasco" that he didn't sit behind him and that wealth experience.
I see it clearly. It's called dumb.
It's a fiasco because the media hyped up a kid over pre-season games. And everyone ran with the hype, even a head coach.
A head coach should know not to put too much into pre-season, and a head coach should know his team. Carrol should have known this defense was ready for big things and not trusted his team with a rookie QB. He bought the hype, and that was a big mistake
Carrol is a bad head coach, he's a college minded coach. They should have never even dealt Jackson in the first place if they felt like Flynn stunk.
As much as you want to down Flynn, he still is a guy with a few years of NFL experience, from practice-training camps, film room etc. And if they didn't have faith in that, they should have kept Jackson and played him and let Wilson come in as the savior mid-season.
Now he was appointed to the role, is struggling and what do you do? You have a top 5 defense, you're gonna waste that on a rookie? Probably not, they`ll pull him.
I`m literally repeating myself at this point so i`ll stop because if you don't get it by now, there is no helping you.