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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 258727" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>Seems to me that the QBs we lose in recruiting are always the ones who could have been great at GT. Fact is we don't have a clue. Not one. It is a unique offense requiring a unique skill -- or at least I think it is -- and it doesn't involve running or throwing the ball. it is decision making under duress and under fire, and making it inside of one second. I could not do that. I knew a guy who was high up in NASA in our moon shot years, and he said that of all the astronauts of any "recruiting class", only Deke Slayton could make instantaneous decisions under great pressure, and be right. And that he was the only one of dozens. And all of these guys, and later women, were selected as the best of the best. All of our guys have had their strengths, but of all the weaknesses, I have come to the reluctant conclusion that Thomas simply cannot reliably make the instant decision he needs to put the play in motion. . Defenses have gotten better, more film-ready, more experienced with the spread option. That's part of it. But in my mind the major, 90% iceberg reason, is that Thomas very often, like mostly some games, gives to the Bback who gets crushed in the line. That's not athletic skill, or intelligence. It is up in the rarefied air of recognition and decision time. I didn't think TW could pass a kidney stone or run in traffic, and of them all, only he and Thomas just get hammered running a keeper between the tackles. With all that said, in Johnson's tenure on the Flats, TW was his best option QB, and that is not I view I always held.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 258727, member: 2175"] Seems to me that the QBs we lose in recruiting are always the ones who could have been great at GT. Fact is we don't have a clue. Not one. It is a unique offense requiring a unique skill -- or at least I think it is -- and it doesn't involve running or throwing the ball. it is decision making under duress and under fire, and making it inside of one second. I could not do that. I knew a guy who was high up in NASA in our moon shot years, and he said that of all the astronauts of any "recruiting class", only Deke Slayton could make instantaneous decisions under great pressure, and be right. And that he was the only one of dozens. And all of these guys, and later women, were selected as the best of the best. All of our guys have had their strengths, but of all the weaknesses, I have come to the reluctant conclusion that Thomas simply cannot reliably make the instant decision he needs to put the play in motion. . Defenses have gotten better, more film-ready, more experienced with the spread option. That's part of it. But in my mind the major, 90% iceberg reason, is that Thomas very often, like mostly some games, gives to the Bback who gets crushed in the line. That's not athletic skill, or intelligence. It is up in the rarefied air of recognition and decision time. I didn't think TW could pass a kidney stone or run in traffic, and of them all, only he and Thomas just get hammered running a keeper between the tackles. With all that said, in Johnson's tenure on the Flats, TW was his best option QB, and that is not I view I always held. [/QUOTE]
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