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Why would someone make up a big compelling case about this lol. It's purely psychological within the player. What else, would every defense in the league figure the QB out in 1 season and that's it? Like I said, if someone's psyche is fragile enough that one bad season kills his confidence completely rather than inspiring him to work on his weaknesses, he's probably not NFL QB material.
Pure conjecture. Not supported by either evidence or any prevailing line of thought among professionals. Just an opinion on my hard, but I think you severely underestimate the role that confidence, knowing what he's doing wrong when he makes mistakes, and reinforcement of good mechanics vs. bad has to do with forming a player.
Guys coming in from college aren't even close to finished products. There are many, many cases, for example, of QBs who come into the league and immediately start behind crappy offensive lines have their internal clocks and confidence permanently ruined, on a fundamental, mechanical level. They never get comfortable standing back in the pocket, planting, confidently looking downfield and throwing, because in all of their in-game experience, that isn't even an option. They know that if they try they'll get drilled. For that reason alone, there are plenty of coaches who won't start their young QBs behind crappy lines.
I'm not going to argue with NFL coaches saying they'd rather sit the QB and make him learn, all I'm saying is if they do make the 'mistake' of starting him too early, whatever psychological downside there is shouldn't outweigh the positives of building the experience and kill his career like people are suggesting it will to Sanchez.
That's a completely different point than what you originally made. There's a huge difference between saying there are no downsides and saying that those downsides are outweighed by the positives. I still disagree with you, but now you have an arguable point.