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Originally Posted by Number27
The difference is that if you completely sell out to stop the run JPW can go off on you for 300+ and a couple of scores. See: UT last year (32 of 46 for 346 and 3td's).
There's a reason everyone doesn't put 9 in the box against Alabama. It's because his career passer rating is 124.2 and he's very accurate inside of twenty yards.
He's obviously not a top ten quarterback in terms of NFL prospects; but to say he's somehow bad or horrible is just plain wrong.
Just plain wrong in what way? John Parker Wilson is better at quarterback than you or me, but that's about it. He's a below average NCAA quarterback, and when compared with the rest of his team is 'horrible' and is by far the weakest link. He wouldn't start for 2/3 of the schools in the country, but he's luckboxed his way into starting at the #1 team.
You can take it from me, who's played quarterback, you can take it from scouting reports, from game film, or from the stats which you just cited as somehow positive. Passer rating of 124 and accurate inside twenty yards?
That's like saying "this power forward isn't horrible, he makes almost all of his layups."
Furthermore, "Passing Efficiency" is so overrated in this spot. When you throw like so few passes, and they're all off of play action or they are all designed dinks and dunks your efficiency is guaranteed to be high. And despite being in this incredibly advantageous position, JPW still sucks.
Or, I suppose you are going to disagree and tell me that Pat White really was the 9th best passer in the nation last year? Because that's where he ranked.
Not to mention that despite throwing only easy passes and play actions, and despite playing on a team far superior to most of its opponents, J
PW ranks 59th in the country in passing efficiency and has exactly 9 touchdowns. To put that into perspective, Case Keenum and David Johnson have each scored 7 touchdowns.
In one game.
And don't give me that "SEC defenses" bit, because (a) SEC defenses are trash this year and (b) SEC offenses are so inept, that you get like an extra 2-3 posessions per game. (The opposite happens in the B-12, where you get tons of possessions because teams are scoring so fast)
There are
at least fifty D-1 quarterbacks who would make Alabama a better team than they are with JPW. I'll use 50 since I can state that with confidence. I wouldn't be surprised if there were actually 60-70 QB's better than JPW when you look at all of the backups. Counting their injured guys, there are literally
five players at Oregon that I think are better QB's than JPW. What about Texas A&M? They're one of the worst BCS teams in the country, and I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone who really knows football and would take JPW over Jerrod Johnson or Steven McGee.
To use a random example, look at the MAC... I would take the following QBs over JPW:
Nate Davis
Dan LeFevour
Drew Willy
Tim Hiller
Boo Jackson
Tyler Sheehan
Adam DeMichael
(in that order)
Hell, I might even think about taking Harnish or Edelman, although I don't really know how well Edelman would fit into the system.
In other words, I think that like 8 out of the 12 MAC quarterbacks would make Alabama better than JPW.
Just 'cuz I'm on a roll now, in the Pac-10 I would take Sanchez, Mustain, Masoli, Riley, Tuitama, Carpenter, Roper, and Darren Thomas over JPW, and this is the Pac-10's worst quarterbacking group in recent history.
Going 12-0 with this guy as your quarterback = Saban is a ****ing Wizard.
Last edited by GoldenBears; 12-02-2008 at 05:18 PM.