re: Why is everyone trying to trick themselves into thinking Milroe isn’t the guy?

Milroe very well be the guy, but we watched him play last year and he had serious major/fatal flaws. He was terrible with ball security, inaccurate and struggled to read defenses. Basically all three things you can't have a QB do, he did. And no amount of freakish athleticism can make up for those flaws if he doesn't clean them up.

That said, I think he can clean up the ball security issues and will improve reading defenses but inaccuracy issues tend to linger with QB's. I'm a skeptic until I see him put it all together. And if the coaching staff really is testing the portal waters, that would indicate that they agree with this assessment.