re: Dural: Harris "leading the way a quarterback is supposed to"

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Well to be fair, Harris had 45 attempts to Jennings 227 attempts. You could extrapolate that to Harris throwing 30 TDs-10 INTs. (haha doubtful!) Point is, you could compare stats all day. However, Harris was clearly the more risk taking of the 2 Qbs last year. If he wants to start, he will need to dial it down a bit. That was all i was saying.

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Wouldn't you rather the guy who is putting up far more TDs? Over a guy who is turning the ball over not only in the air but on the ground as well? Wouldn't you rather guy who accounts for more TDs per possession than a guy who managed to account for 11 TOTAL TDs all season long?

Scoring TDS outweighs any type of offensive numbers, luncluding turnovers.. Look at a guy like Boykin or Auburn's qbs.. and those guys don't even have the talent of a Harris. they turn the ball over, but they also put up multiple TDs.. This is why when Miles came out after the season ended and said we need to pass for 250 yards a game I cringed.. The amount of passing yardage is irrelevant. Especially if we are a run heavy team.. but what DOES matter is once we get to the redzone we have the ability to get the ball in the endzone.. whether it's running the qb (harris had rushing tds.. jennings had 0) or throwing to the endzone (harris actually utilized a guy like Dupre's talents and got him like 3 TDs? maybe 2? in very limited action) or just the fact the defense has to respect a guy like Harris more.. it opens it up more for the backs to get into the endzone.. The fact remains Harris had the team getting into the endzone when JENNINGS did not.

Period.