Honestly, at half time, I wanted to see someone else at QB because I thought that I had seen everything he had to offer. I'm glad that I was proven wrong, and the way that everyone else seems to be talking about him and Bo feels about him seems to be enough.
He's still not confident enough to dictate that he can set the emotional tempo, control the emotional climate, and not get caught up in the instantaneous weather.
I think more so than other people (Rex), he needs a spark or emotional boost so that he calms down and gets off his nerves. Listening to the post game show on the radio, one caller brought up osmething about what it takes for him to calm down and react more than overanalyzing - I forget what they said in response, but, I notice something about him feeding off of emotions in a particularly noticeable way.Obviously that's the case for everyone in college football, but....
I think where he can develop more is in his own self confidence or ability to control his poise. I think this second half can go a long way towards that -- he needs more experiences like this where he realizes he can dictate and choose his manner of play, and have success in that.
He appears to have demonstrated that he is capable of doing it. And if he continues to show more mastery of it as the season passes, then I'll push for him to be QB into next season. But if he can't get over the hump, then something has to change - because it's a little too obvious and well documented what happens when he falters. Not just 'obvious', but, you can plan what will happen and how, and it often leads to turnovers. If he can't change 'stopping feelign that way' so he panics and makes bad decisions, no less stopping the actual bad results of the panic/nerves/whatever, that's not good.
That said,
maybe this is a big big boost for him to get better at just that. I hope it is, and I believe it can be.
Prior to tonight, I wasn't hating on him - I didn't give him any grief after Wisconsin, because I didn't see that as truly indicative of anything. but tonight I was really just agitated at halftime. And he proved to me that he does have 'it', 'it' as in what it takes. he was able to dig down and find it in spite of all the sh#t from EVERYONE the last week, and in spite of a painful second quarter, at times. I respect that on a personal level because I've been in situations like that, albeit not on a football field.
So although I'm not a diehard HEs THE FUTURE TMagic fan, at this time, I'm definitely not a hater, and I do believe in him.
He should feel entirely validated tonight and I hope that builds him and grows more for the rest of the year.