The questions made wide receiver Davone Bess laugh.
"Oh yeah," he said. "Chad is tough. He shows no emotion. So even if he did take it in a bad way, you couldn't tell."
Steve Beuerlein, the NFL on CBS analyst who enjoyed a 15-year career in the NFL with six different teams, said sooner or later it's an experience almost every quarterback goes through.
"Very few avoid it, other than the first-round draft picks who come in and hit the ground running," he said. "Most of us had to go through it almost religiously."
Beuerlein went 8-7 those two years as the starter, Schroeder 7-9. In the remaining 13 years of his career, he said he learned not to trust coaches and management when they told him he was their guy.
"You have to understand that and prepare for it," he said. "If you're not strong enough to deal with it, if you're not ready to lick your chops and prepare for that next chance and trust yourself, you're not going to play in this league. The only way to play in the NFL is to be able to deal with that kind of experience."
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