games ago that they should have done that before they officially rolled him out there as “the guy” moving forward. Now it just looks like he was benched for performance alone and not because they wanted to give him a different view of the game for a bit.

Maybe this is something the QB coach, now OC, has been wanting to do, and Ludwig had been against it, so now he has a chance to do it?

It screamed of desperation 8 games into the season in what I remember to be a tied game at the time.