80/170 47% 127ypg 9td/6int

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I don't think I've seen worse.

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Hatch?

Harris needs to see significant playing time the last 2 games. He's been in the system for almost a year now. We need to find out if he's got it or not.

If not, we need to go get a JUCO guy for next season.

i'm not defending his passing abilities as they are obviously sub par. but to just use passing stats as a measure of a QB is wrong. whether you understand it or not there are a number of things that dictate a QB's effectiveness. besides, we have had some pretty damn unforgivable drops and this game was the worse.

a QB has to manage the game and not get rattled. at times he has to improvise, esp with his feet. he has to take huge shots and get up and recover quickly. there are others.

this isn't xbox football. passing yards, per se, are just one of the variables of measuring a QB.

so, to be FAIR, esp to AJ and the coaching staff, I submit to you (and others) that THEY KNOW these stats are bad, THEY KNOW that we need a better passing game, THEY KNOW that being one dimensional is not going to win championships and THEY KNOW that many fans are unhappy.

THE FACTS are they are working on making this happen as best and fast as possible. there really IS NO SIMPLE SOLUTION (like in xbox). you can't just plug in another QB and expect to get the other things that AJ brings to the table plus better passing. changing one variable does not mean all of the other variables remain constant. it is difficult. it is not as easy as you make it.

I have actually noticed an improvement in AJ. he is more comfortable back there and has been throwing better short passes (more touch). he now runs more when he can't find a receiver.

if the dropped passes were caught there would be a different storyline here today. those 4 were damn KEY to this game.

Does anyone think AJ is going to get much better? That the light is just suddenly going to come on for him? Face it, he's pretty close if not at his ceiling. He starting taking all the first team reps in practice going back to last years bowl game. Went through weeks of practice this spring and fall, and has been getting first team practice reps and starting every game this season.
After all of that he's really hasn't shown much, if any, improvement. He continues to lock onto the primary receiver on passing downs. He doesn't go through his progressions. If his first option is covered he panics in the pocket and takes a sack. To top it off, he's not a good runner either. So basically we have a QB who cannot throw, cannot run, is inaccurate, can't read a defense, and is not showing much in the way of improvement since the first game. It's amazing that we've been able to run the ball as well as we have with teams putting 8 or 9 player in the box because they don't fear AJ's passing. Watch the opposing defense's LB at every offensive snap, they immediately break towards the line of scrimmage to stop our running game.
It must take opposing teams 30 minutes to game plan for our offense.

Just put Harris in and give him some experience. He's our future, AJ is obviously not. We're just spinning our wheels at the QB position with AJ back there. He is just not a D1 quarterback and likely never will be. What we're seeing out of AJ is probably about as good as it's going to get, which is unacceptable.

There's not another team in the country with the talent we have year and year out with as bad QB's as we have. It's laughable at this point

You don't remember when Jarrett Lee almost won the Thorpe Award?

Do we really need to go to Georgia to find a qb that could post those numbers? I think we could go to Mc Kinley and do it.

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Been watching football since the Tommy Hodson years. I don't think I've seen worse.

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This is an observation, not a defense or indictment of anyone. It is flawed logic to compare stats of the '80s or '90s to present-day numbers. The game (CFB and the NFL) has changed dramatically in favor of the offense. A 300 yard passing day in 1980 was a real anomaly (think BYU), in 2014 it can be average for many teams.

All that being said, Jennings has not (to my eye) improved appreciably over this season. To me, that's a real red flag as to his ultimate potential. I'd try Harris again against the Hogs, the only way you can correctly judge him is in actual game situations. Maybe Harris is the wildcat QB only for the next several years.

You must have been in a time warp during 2010 then...

2010 Jefferson: 118/209 (56.5%), 109 ypg, 7TD:10INT

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80/170 47% 127ypg 9td/6int

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Those are Reggie Ball numbers