This snippet from 2016 should help shed some light on Fleck's mindset, better or worse. It looks like Terrell split time with a Sr. QB the first game, the Sr. started the next 4 games (and played poorly) and Fleck turned to Terrell.
Regarding Fleck's statement he had a rotation two years, one with Flacco, well Flacco had all of one pass attempt in 2016 and rushed a handful of times.
“When I first met Zach Terrell, just like everybody, you ask who they are, you kind of look them up and down. Wow, this is one of the quarterbacks we have to work with. We’d go to practice and he had a great work ethic, but he was very quiet, he didn’t say much.”
After one of those early practices, Fleck called Terrell to his office — and bluntly laid it on the line.
“I think you’ve got talent, but you don’t talk, you don’t communicate, you’ve gotta be better, you’ve gotta be the leader,” Fleck said. “You’re either gonna believe, or I can help you go somewhere else.
“He said, ‘Coach, you’ve got me all wrong. That’s not what I am.’ ”
What Terrell is, is a four-year starting quarterback who has been instrumental in taking Western Michigan from 1-11 in 2013 to 12-0 and ranked No. 13 this season heading into Friday night’s Mid-American Conference championship game against Ohio at Ford Field.
“Jump with two feet in or jump with two feet out,” Fleck said, recalling that early conversation. “I’m so glad he made the decision he made."
“He had to take a leap of faith forward.”
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...terback-terrell-glad-stayed-broncos/94581220/