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<blockquote data-quote="Jacket4Life9" data-source="post: 289710" data-attributes="member: 2264"><p>I see your point but I disagree. It always takes a team effort to be successful, but I think that Josh Nesbitt was arguably the single most important piece to 2008's success. Not many QB's can grasp a new system in one year, much less in a triple option attack where the QBs responsibility is unique and nothing like that of a traditional QB role. The fact that we were lucky enough to have a QB tough enough, fast enough, and just plain "good" enough to run CPJs offense well enough to win 9 games and beat UGA in Athens is beyond me. A true freshman Jaybo Shaw would not have been able to do what Josh did, even if he miraculously stayed healthy the whole season. The A-back position is much easier to learn and it quite frankly it is much easier to find a runningback type kid that can be serviceable at A-back than it is to find a QB to give you a chance to beat the Miamis, Clemsons, and UGAs of the world. The defense was decent in 2008 but far from great. You do make a solid point about Thomas, as his stats and contributions may not be as good as I'd remembered in 2008. Nesbitt on the otherhand played much larger than his stats indicate. <strong>Not only was the system new to Josh in 2008, he had to play QB in a year in which the system was new to EVERYONE. When we judge a "new" QB now, you can't 100% accurately compare him to Josh in 2008 because 2008 was the only season in which each and every player on the team was playing in CPJ's system for the first time. Now, when a guy comes in and plays QB, the majority of his surrounding cast will have had a year or two or three of experience learning CPJ's system. Granted, Josh had a good supporting cast (i.e. Dwyer, Bebe, Roddy, etc), but again my only point is that had he not been at GT, CPJ's tenure likely would have gone much differently up to this point.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jacket4Life9, post: 289710, member: 2264"] I see your point but I disagree. It always takes a team effort to be successful, but I think that Josh Nesbitt was arguably the single most important piece to 2008's success. Not many QB's can grasp a new system in one year, much less in a triple option attack where the QBs responsibility is unique and nothing like that of a traditional QB role. The fact that we were lucky enough to have a QB tough enough, fast enough, and just plain "good" enough to run CPJs offense well enough to win 9 games and beat UGA in Athens is beyond me. A true freshman Jaybo Shaw would not have been able to do what Josh did, even if he miraculously stayed healthy the whole season. The A-back position is much easier to learn and it quite frankly it is much easier to find a runningback type kid that can be serviceable at A-back than it is to find a QB to give you a chance to beat the Miamis, Clemsons, and UGAs of the world. The defense was decent in 2008 but far from great. You do make a solid point about Thomas, as his stats and contributions may not be as good as I'd remembered in 2008. Nesbitt on the otherhand played much larger than his stats indicate. [B]Not only was the system new to Josh in 2008, he had to play QB in a year in which the system was new to EVERYONE. When we judge a "new" QB now, you can't 100% accurately compare him to Josh in 2008 because 2008 was the only season in which each and every player on the team was playing in CPJ's system for the first time. Now, when a guy comes in and plays QB, the majority of his surrounding cast will have had a year or two or three of experience learning CPJ's system. Granted, Josh had a good supporting cast (i.e. Dwyer, Bebe, Roddy, etc), but again my only point is that had he not been at GT, CPJ's tenure likely would have gone much differently up to this point.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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