I don't know how you can say that it's counter to everything we know about TT & MM, when it's exactly what they did last year. They cut Harrell and Coleman at the end of camp, signed Wallace to the 53 and put Tolzien on the PS.
Good point; my recollection of the time line was fuzzy.
My second point stands; bringing in some raw rookie at this late juncture who may not even understand what play is being called into his helmet would be repeating the same mistake made last season.
One would think, based on recent experience, there's a realization the #3 guy might actually have to play.
Cutting Harrell and Coleman (not to mention Young) and signing Wallace were panic moves...the realization set in that the incumbents were terrible and they ended up begging rather than choosing. I don't think there's much sense in going begging for a practice squad replacement for Tolzien at this late juncture.
Do I think Tolzien has the potential to be a quality backup, a guy who can go out and beat mediocre to poor teams as Flynn has shown he can do? No, I don't. But losing with Tolzien is not the same thing as getting crushed and humiliated with somebody else.
In any event, had the organization come to the same conclusion as I have regarding Tolzien they would have acted on it in the off season. Nothing's happened since that should have changed their "stick with him" conclusion.
And perhaps the organization has come to the realization that I came to a couple of years ago...the games won over 0.500 belong entirely to Rodgers vs. any average NFL QB. Perhaps the ego associated with winning has been tempered and the realization has set in that the talent outside the QB position is not that hot. The idea that a raw rookie off the PS stepping in to play should scare the bejezzus out of them. If said raw rookie had no OTAs, no camp and no preseason in the organization, matters could only be worse.