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He needs to learn by watching Tebow mow defenders down. That's exciting to watch.
Are We Shortchanging Franks As A Dual-Threat QB?
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He needs to learn by watching Tebow mow defenders down. That's exciting to watch.
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I have always thought he was a pretty good runner. What he lacks is consistent touch on the ball and unless that changes he will be more of a running threat than a passing threat in my view.
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Where are the stripes on that Zebra or that can't be Franks. :cool:
I went to the trouble of getting a more relevant reflection of Franks' ability to gain yards running = my numbers are his gains without sack-losses subtracted. (found in the box scores of each individual game)
Is this shortchanging?= Tebow '06 - 5.3, '07 - 4.3, '08 - 3.8, '09 - 4.2 nobody can say Tim got sacked for losses much. Now how much reflection on running ability is avoiding sacks, especially the too frequent # of times when the rusher was 12" from Franks when he turned around. To find out how decent a run-QB Franks is let's keep his stats in the coming year, hopefully his coming out year. You're right SEC14 - Franks needs much improvement slanting away from head-on.
As to 'dinkyness' of passing, check each game's longest completion, from box scores. You'll find 40 yards, 65 yards ... talking over those is the definition of shortchanging.
Franks averaged 7.6 ypc. Heisman QBs average 8-9 ypc and we know those involve the pass defenses out west.
