You're entitled to your opinion. Me, well I'm glad "We've got Daniel." :)

Common sense Dumb, not test score dumb...

Does one start make you an experienced backup now? Kyle orton is an experienced back up. Matt Cassie is an experienced back up. Chase Daniel is a guy who started a game against a fringe team.

Daniel started one Game against a team that really needed to win and we started all of our backups. I expected us to take a beating. Taking that into account he played ok and looked far less bad than some of the garbage we have trotted out in the last few years. Unfortunately I see his ceiling maxed out as an adequate backup. If we were poised for a SB run I would want a better more experienced 2nd string QB. I think where we are actually at I would like to see us keep those with a higher upside. A playoff with Smith healthy all season seems unlikely with him missing a few games we are close to 0 %. So I guess I am saying the best thing we could do is try and make CD look as good as possible and hope some other team finds their selves in a dire enough situation where we might get a late round pick for him.

Chase Daniel is a short fat turd who wouldn't be given two seconds of consideration except he played for the dogshit university in Columbia.

Daniel gives you absolutely ZERO upside. If Smith goes down.....Daniel isn't leading us anywhere that Bray or Murray can't take us.

Did you really just make a 1:1 connection between exhibition stats and how well QBs played?

THAT

This. Daniel is not an experienced backup. He has started one more game in the nfl than bray, Murray, or me.

As a backup, you just need to be able to win one or two games IMO. Asking a backup to win much more than that is unrealistic. In that one or two games, I'd rather have Daniel. It's not really about upside at that time, it's just about who I trust more in a emergency situation.

well **** it we should just give up then, if Alex Smith goes down.

hell... ****ing Damon Huard led us to the playoffs in 2006.

An emergency for what? If your starting QB goes down you can pretty much forget about anything meaningful.

Doesn't change that he still has been in the league for 6 years and knew the systems in both New Orleans and here that Sean Payton and Andy Reid both trusted him as a backup. The only time a backup has a lot of playing experience is if he was a former starter that flamed out like Kyle Orton or Cassel. Look at the backups on other teams. Other than those guys, backups don't usually have a lot of playing experience. It's not Daniel's fault that Drew Brees has been healthy every season since he signed with the Saints.

Hence the "one or two games" part. A backup QB should give you a chance to win one or two games.