BoxingRobes
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Hendon Hooker showed good play as a freshman at VT. Over 6:1 TD:INT ratio, almost 10ypa. COVID season is one I punt on evaluation, so ymmv on that season, but Hooker wasn't some scrub (and I wasn't a big fan of his at all). He was on all sorts of gas running the VnS, and you're overall point is absolutely valid...I'm just saying.People don’t appreciate just his alien the Veer and Snoot is to the rest of what’s run in college football.
You here NFL people say it all the time. That these Baylor-Tenn guys literally don’t know how to play football. They can’t even run a route.
RGIII talked about how he didn’t even have a playbook at Baylor.
Herndon Hooker didn’t even try to deny the criticism last year, he just emphasized how other systems don’t require you to throw the ball downfield as much, so draft me based on my arm.
Pointing to what a QB did in an offense that basically doesn’t have you playing “QB” within any meaningful sense of the word, is saying nothing. And it tells you nothing about how they would perform outside of that offense.
In the end, we saw Hooker outside of the Veer. It wasn’t good.
We saw Jefferson outside of the Veer, it wasn’t good.
Jefferson went from the VnS which made him look his best statistically, to Dan Enos that made him look his worst statistically. Tough to glean a lot from that. So, if the result is somewhere in the middle...low 8's ypa, 3:1 TD:INT ratio, ~30 total TDs accounted for, adds a run element to the offense (lets say 500 yards) from the QB position...like, that's not bad, and I agree with your concerns...but that's better than anything we're otherwise trotting out there. If we got that this year, we're probably playing in a NY6 game.