My comment about GW seeing it is based off hindsight and what Clark said last night.appgrad95&97 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:59 amThis is what drives me absolutely up the wall. 94 points out that GW knew Burger was hurt and made a defensive adjustment. Burger's QBR was 19. Clearly there was an issue. He was hurt that's not his fault. But a criticism of Clark is he can be stubborn.AppStateNews wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:50 amIf the player doesn't let anybody know the significance of the injury, how do you expect anybody to know?appgrad95&97 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:48 amWhy were we playing an injured QB for almost a half?AppSt94 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:18 amIn a way yes. Joey benefited from a healthy hand. If you listened to Clark’s show last night, he said that Burger broke his finger very early on. This affected his ability to throw a deep ball. GW saw this and crowded the box to stop the run. When Joey came in, they ran three verticals on the very first play and that opened up the box and allowed for Ponce to call more plays.
Burger told everybody he was fine to play until it got hit again and he could no longer take the pain.
Here is the issue with calling Clark stubborn. You have a RS Freshman that was making his 1st start. He looked to be struggling and jittery, and now we know why, but why would you pull him three drives in. He won the right to be out there and pulling him because he was struggling early isn’t going to help him. He needed to be left in to figure it out.
I get your point, but you can’t make a judgement based solely on hindsight information. You have to consider the in the moment situation.