SJT you have gotten really emotionally invested in this for some reason and have lost all touch with reality it seems.
:lolabove: Coming from you?
No. I am defending against the overreaction. QD has made plenty of mistakes but this notion that he's staring receivers down as a matter of habit or even often is just false. He's made some good throws... and some bad ones. He's made some good reads and then some like the pick that are inexplicably bad.
He hasn't shown the ability to throw the wr open at all though. He has forced passes and made bad reads. He has thrown high or behind the wr a ton.
Pure BS. Go listen to MC's post game comments and apply that to some of the other plays where it looks like the ball was thrown badly. Sometimes... they were bad throws. Sometimes... the receiver needed to read the coverage and know where the ball was going to be.
He may develop the skills you say but has not shown them at all yet.
Your pride just won't let you give the guy credit at all, will it? I mean for you, he's dirt... he's always going to be dirt... and the only way he will stop being dirt is if the coaches see your "wisdom" and start JG... then he can be the back up.
GT played zone. Have you ever played organized football? (honest question, not being a smart aleck) Against a zone, the receivers are responsible for finding soft spots and idling or settling into them. The receivers didn't do a great job of that. Byrd in particular seemed to be running as if he were playing against man or cover 2. That doesn't mean QD threw the ball perfectly. But there is more to the appearance of accuracy than just the QB's throw.
On the over throws, are you talking about the really bad passes QD threw once at JJ and once to Wolf vs GT or the deep throws?
One of the first things QB's are taught is that you don't throw the long ones short or the short ones long. The passes QD missed deep vs ISU were deep balls overthrown. You live with those and sometimes the receiver gets held up by the DB on those. On one Saturday, Palmer slowed down as if he wasn't expecting the ball. The two vs GT are really good examples of throwing a short one long. Those are dangerous. The only one of those I remember from ISU was thrown by JG.
Pretty much all the reports would say QD was probably ahead but JG had a bigger arm and threw a better ball. Go look it up. Everyone saw it.
If they "all" said it then it should be no problem whatsoever for you to find say... 3 examples. I read pretty much everything I can find on the Vols. I don't remember reading an article that actually compared their arm strength. I think there might have been a couple that said QD was more accurate but not in a way that really disparaged JG's accuracy.
You have a bad habit of making the "everyone knows" type of argument then when called on it can't provide any proof.
I think JG would have done better Saturday with a little less pressure and more help. He didn't do anything that discouraged me from thinking he's going to do well when his time to play comes whether now or later.
If I am having an "emotional" reaction... it is to the false criticisms of Dormady.
