I see a lot of sentiments like this… I simply disagree. These stats don’t pass the eyeball test - that occurs when simply watching the games. There’s more here than a freshman learning curve, first road game jitters or some such thing. This strikes me as something psychological. Do y’all remember Steve Sax? Or more recently Chuck Knoblauch…. These were two second basemen who all of the sudden couldn’t throw the ball from second base to first. There was also a catcher who inexplicably all of the sudden couldn’t throw the ball back to the pitcher. None of these were physical or fundamentals… they were psychological. Quarterback is a position of fine motor skills, like baseball. And if you look at Ewers vs BAMA and OU… compared with anything since…. This isn’t learning curve or youth related. I’m afraid that any suggestion that we ought to expect this from a young QB… well, people are rationalizing or perhaps seeing / saying what they wish were true.
These psychological issues aren’t necessarily insurmountable. But IMHO, running him out there repeatedly to humiliate himself is making the issue worse. Sit Ewers, and give him an offseason to get right.
Then there’s the chance that I’m completely wrong here. I’m open to that as well.
