Grossi: Brian Hoyer Ultimately Sunk Chud's Coaching Tenure
Everyone knows that Lombardi was a famously enthusiastic advocate of Hoyer while biding his NFL purgatory with the NFL Network.
When Lombardi successfully acquired Hoyer in May, Rob Chudzinski and Norv Turner already had pretty much committed the entire offseason to readying Brandon Weeden as the starter for the season and Jason Campbell as the fallback option.
In training camp, Hoyer was cast aside by the coaches as the third quarterback. On occasion, Hoyer was banished to a faraway field to throw to the rookie free agents. In my opinion, that cavalier attitude toward Hoyer not taking him seriously as a viable starting option, ostensibly because he was Lombardis boy -- was a crucial error in judgment by Chudzinski and Turner.
From that point on, the only thing that would save them was a good year, meaning a good enough record to avoid any sane reasoning for dismissal.