Coaches and quarterbacks get too much blame and too much credt. Right now, it's blame. I saw the same game and same play calling as everyone else. Think about this for a second - Marshall was cramping up like crazy on defense, they were dehydrated. Purdue had them in a position where they could just grind them down further and eat up the clock. But failure in the run game meant critical third downs and the coaches elected to pass. Had either of those elements worked, we would be singing coaches' praises and downplaying the quarterback's performance, characterizing it as a gutsy, albeit mediocre performance. We would balance his likely 2-3 picks with his 66% completion percentage, his TD pass to Anthrop while being tackled (the announcers did call it the play of the week), and his ability to overcome the disastrous first snap to will his team to victory. We would all cite his streak of 11(IIRC) straight completions as showing the potential to blossom into the QB we all (most of all, him) want him to be. We would be praising Shoop for developing a new ground game and for trusting in it at the end, just like the big boys do.
Like I said, QBs and coaches get too much blame and too much credit. But when we lose, everyone needs a scapegoat and those people are always the obvious ones. It's so much easier to pin the blame than think things through on a deeper level.
Like I said, QBs and coaches get too much blame and too much credit. But when we lose, everyone needs a scapegoat and those people are always the obvious ones. It's so much easier to pin the blame than think things through on a deeper level.
