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Popped onto Doogman and found this gem
Pitchfork51
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Great thread. Interesting to think about where some of the “start the next guy” thought process comes from.
There seems to be this weird assumption that Browning is just handed the ball every Saturday because he’s Jake Browning/He’s the Senior. Like, these players don’t exist outside of the 60 minutes of live reps on Saturdays and Petersen is unwilling to allow Jake to be challenged. Such nonsense.
The QB’s compete every single day in practice and Jake Browning wins the job every single day in practice. He gives them access to the entire offense (insert obvious joke about deep out routes), reading defenses, and a level of comfort making decisions at the line of scrimmage. He’s far from perfect and he takes the sort of criticism that comes when you’re the leader of a top 10 program looking for an edge to become a top 5 program. That’s all valid. I’m not against criticizing the QB, but playing a redshirt freshman quarterback just because he’s NOT Jake Browning is not the way to elevate your program.
If you were to replace a QB starting his 40th game with a QB starting his first game, especially mid-season, you would roll out a shell of an offense to minimize risk. You’d be so limited in what you could do through the air that it would suffocate your running game.
People love the Don James comparisons for Petersen when it comes to winning and running a program the right way. Part of that is his conservative nature. He sometimes stays with things for what feels like too long because he hammers on “the process” and he’s driving that vision big picture. I think people interpret Petersen’s dismissal of questions about Jake’s culpability as “the coach isn’t willing to let his QB be challenged”. I don’t think it’s that at all. I think Jake is challenged every single day to elevate his game, but he’s not going to tell us about it, and we're probably not going to see it on Saturday.
Browning is likely going to win 40 games as a starter (top 5 all time). He probably finishes with more than 100 TD’s in his career (top 25 all-time… top 10 for a guy that doesn’t play in the spread, air raid, or run & shoot) He’s made some really dumb decisions early this season, but he is the guy that gives you the best chance to win, and it’s not even close.
There seems to be this weird assumption that Browning is just handed the ball every Saturday because he’s Jake Browning/He’s the Senior. Like, these players don’t exist outside of the 60 minutes of live reps on Saturdays and Petersen is unwilling to allow Jake to be challenged. Such nonsense.
The QB’s compete every single day in practice and Jake Browning wins the job every single day in practice. He gives them access to the entire offense (insert obvious joke about deep out routes), reading defenses, and a level of comfort making decisions at the line of scrimmage. He’s far from perfect and he takes the sort of criticism that comes when you’re the leader of a top 10 program looking for an edge to become a top 5 program. That’s all valid. I’m not against criticizing the QB, but playing a redshirt freshman quarterback just because he’s NOT Jake Browning is not the way to elevate your program.
If you were to replace a QB starting his 40th game with a QB starting his first game, especially mid-season, you would roll out a shell of an offense to minimize risk. You’d be so limited in what you could do through the air that it would suffocate your running game.
People love the Don James comparisons for Petersen when it comes to winning and running a program the right way. Part of that is his conservative nature. He sometimes stays with things for what feels like too long because he hammers on “the process” and he’s driving that vision big picture. I think people interpret Petersen’s dismissal of questions about Jake’s culpability as “the coach isn’t willing to let his QB be challenged”. I don’t think it’s that at all. I think Jake is challenged every single day to elevate his game, but he’s not going to tell us about it, and we're probably not going to see it on Saturday.
Browning is likely going to win 40 games as a starter (top 5 all time). He probably finishes with more than 100 TD’s in his career (top 25 all-time… top 10 for a guy that doesn’t play in the spread, air raid, or run & shoot) He’s made some really dumb decisions early this season, but he is the guy that gives you the best chance to win, and it’s not even close.
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I got curious a while back and checked it out
It's funny because its every bit as lame as I've heard.
Out of a stupid speed option to a Gaskin counter which scores a touchdown. Pete chews him out for not sticking with the original called play and goes back to Browning who throws two pick sixes and we? Lose.