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Is there any other position where a players success is so dependent on the head coach, off coord and/or the system? Look at Boykin at TCU! Going to be a receiver one year and considered turnover prone in Rusty Burns/ Patterson's offense and the next year after just a spring training with Cumbie and two a days he is a Heismann candidate and his team has lost one game in 2 years. Just saying it happens a lot of places.

ponyboy wrote:

MustangStealth wrote:Lack of ability was not why he left SMU. It was not why we lost many games either.

I mean this as a serious question. How in the hell do you lack ability to play at a level infinitely below the pros? Maturity maybe. But lack of ability?

Josh was well recruited out of high school, struggled here, blew doors at SHSU and has held his own in the NFL.

Scratching my head.

The stadium lights not designed by June

Art Briles and Chad Morris were running gimmicky high school offenses when Josh was a college player. The college game was full of geniuses and wizards 'running the ball, playing good defense and hoping to win it in the 4th quarter.' The idea of building an offense around the athletes on campus was still a high school thing.

I wonder how good he'd be in today's game with an OC sitting in a pressbox, making the pre-snap read for him and relaying that to a GA.

Ask your local QB if it's harder to read a secondary and linebackers on his own in three seconds (after breaking a huddle, using motion, getting under center, etc) or not having to huddle and waiting on the coach to signal in his one of two throws? Wait, just ask RG3

Josh was a very good college QB who got yo-yoed in and out of the lineup every time anything went wrong, whether it was his fault or the WR's fault. Who was the other QB in that rotation? Daniel Page? I'm surprised either of them put up with it as long as they did. I thought Josh might make it to the NFL, but his durability has surprised everyone. Good for him.

Now it seems his jersey is headed to the Hall of Fame:

McCown was the first player in NFL history to throw for more than 450 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions while also rushing for a touchdown. He also produced the greatest three game stretch in team history. He has thrown for 1,154 yards and six touchdowns in the past three games.

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