With this staff, assuming *any* second-year player won't continue to improve is FS. Especially a guy who works as hard as Browning.
Browning wasn't great in the Peach Bowl, obviously. He made one clearly disastrous decision, and missed on plenty of other throws. But after all the Brownsockery in November, I really feared he'd come out looking like a deer in headlights against Bammer. He didn't. The moment wasn't too big for him. He was merely imperfect.
Browning is never gonna be Vince Young. But he's a pretty deadly weapon already, and he's only been on campus two years. Also, he will never face another college D as dominant as that one -- not even when UW rematches with Bammer next year.
CHRIST.
He was Jack Lockner bad yesterday.
He wasn't good, but Jack H Lockner went 4 for 20 against a fucking Bo Pelini coached team in Husky stadium. A team he would beat 4 months later in the Holiday Bowl. How Locker got drafted as high as he did is a mystery.
I know youre being sarcastic, but still
I meant Jack Lockner overall, not THAT Nebraska game.
Here's an interesting thought...I wonder what Lockner would be able to do as a college qb with a team and coach this good.
While every doog in doog-land is busy saying Jake Browning is good because he's our hero for lighting up shitty teams (and they ignore that he folds under any pressure whatsoever) - it should be recognized what he did after the first series yesterday.
He started 11 for 13 and ended up 20 for 38.
His raw QBRs against the four best Ds we've faced have been:
Utah - 65.7
USC - 30.4
Colorado - 24.1
Bama - 17.6
His raw QBRs against the rest of everyone? 87.5
He's basically Colt Brennan who chokes.
It's sad because I really like him for many reasons, but at this point he is who he is.