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Matt Mauck was nowhere near as good a QB in September of 2003 as he is now. His flaws have been largely forgotten or glossed over, and he is regarded as one of the greats because he has the ring.

And this is the issue.

We've been spoiled recently with QBs that were wildly successful and instrumental in various ways to the program... Davey, Mauck, Russell, Flynn... they were all incredibly effective.

Then you have Jefferson, who doesn't really fall in line with any of them, and without looking it up, probably falls well behind them all on a stat-line. He's unsure, hesitant, makes bad decision, and he's incredibly inaccurate.

Simply because he has so far to go to improve his image, I don't know that a ring will leave him regarded as anything other than average at best.

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Posted by TIGERFANZZ

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Member since Nov 2007

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Posted on 3/17/11 at 11:55 am to chilge1

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Davey, Mauck, Russell, Flynn... they were all incredibly effective.

And they were all good leaders. A quality that jj lacks. I wish the guy all the luck in the world but for Christ's sake, when you screw up, don't start acting like a 5 yr old who got caught doing something wrong & tries to blame it on his little brother. I can accept the fact that he isn't a world=class qb, nobody is asking him to be but he just needs to own up to his mistakes on the field & stop looking around for someone or something to blame it on.

G E A U X T I G E R S!!!

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Posted by King Joey

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Posted on 3/17/11 at 2:50 pm to chilge1

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We've been spoiled recently with QBs that were wildly successful and instrumental in various ways to the program... Davey, Mauck, Russell, Flynn... they were all incredibly effective.

Totally missed my point. Mauck was in reality no better a QB after the National Championship Game than he was before; it was purely a change in how he was perceived. That became his legacy; he was a great QB because he led us to the Championship. If Jefferson does the same, the result will be the same; however good he plays (which would presumably be at least somewhat better if we're going to manage a National Championship) the perception will be much better because he will have led us to a National Championship.

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He's unsure, hesitant, makes bad decision, and he's incredibly inaccurate.

If he plays exactly the way he has the previous two years, and we still win the National Championship (which I find unlikely), he will still be perceived as being better because people will recall the big plays he makes along the way more so than the hesitation, inaccuracy and bad decisions. Just as much of Mauck's inaccuracy and poor decisions has been washed away by the memory of the National Championship win. Jefferson would most likely be recalled as not quite as good as Flynn or Mauck, but would become much more favorably compared to guys like Davey, Booty, Tyler, etc.