Film room and QB room and meetings with McAdoo are all well and good. Practice reps as (at best) scout team QB running another team's plays are not as good. Even the team acknowledged that second stringer Wallace didn't get enough first team reps when it was his time to go in.

You need an offseason and training camp to master an offense, especially a player who had not previously started except in exhibitions in another offense.

His performance last year plus his background are not enough to make him the backup unless you are willing to live with underprepared. And given the Packers stashed him on the PS in 2013, they weren't.

But he looks different this year. We have no way to know if it will carry over to the regular season, but it looks much more promising than Flynn so far. One problem is that reporters have said Flynn, despite fitful production in preseason games, has had a good camp.