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It seems as though the quarterback saga has finally grinded to it's arrival, much to the relief of the coaches and perhaps to some fans chagrin. The fan disgruntleness is somewhat born out of the anticipation of the Neal Brown air raid.
Starting all the way back to 2012 the trek has been likened to a ride on the Pikes Peak Cog Railway chug-a-lugging up the 14,110 foot summit. Admittedly there has been frustration of the coaches and enough to go all around to whom it concerns. The view at the summit may not be ideal but the coaches feel like they can take Jalen Whitlow's 17-24 passing and the 17 runs for 79-yards and build off of that. "We understand he's not perfect, he missed a few throws here and there, he made some good runs," Stoops said. With that dimension, it does add some things."
Neal Brown and Mark Stoops fully cognizant of the personel on hand have said on numerous ocassions that they were going to put their players in the best position to win games. Brown said they have to run the football with THIS team. Almost in the same breath he strongly emphisised, THIS team. Unlike his last years Texas Tech addition when he threw the ball at a sixty percent clip as opposed to almost visa-versa with this Kentucky team.
Brown said they have analyzed this quarterback situatoin thoroughly beginning of winter workouts, spring practice, the spring game, summer workouts, fall practice, all the film, and the first four games.
Stoops spoke in the issue on his Monday night "Big Blue Line" radio show. Alluding to the beggining of the season and what we've seen so far he said -"That was by design. We wanted Jalen to take the job and run with it but when he didn't, we tried Max (Smith). He had a good game then he got hurt and that brought about the switching back and forth. We felt it was dangerous to name a starter because no one had seperated themselves." He said Whitlows performance Saturday against South Carolina was good. We have given him the job and we want him to run with it. "We will not jerk him when he misses a pass or does something bad and we want him to know that."
Whitlow got some beefy help on the left side of the line Saturday night. It looked like
Tevin Eatman-Nared 6-foot-6, 330-pounds got the bulk of the snaps in the second half and was doing a good job. This we will address with offensive line coach John Schlarman this week. Brown and Stoops have continously stated that it's not all on the quarterback but the people that's surround him, too.
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