The "Inside Word" on the QB Search

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Originally Posted by skinsfaninok

saw Tannehill against OU and I thought Landry outplayed himIMO.

I have Landry Jones graded above Ryan Tannehill. And yet, I never feel good about watching Landry Jones on film. I'm always asking myself things like: who does that? why does that happen? Sometimes he's just guessing out there.

Jones' arm talent is undeniable, and gives him a huge edge over Tannehill, and he's a better athlete than I gave him credit for earlier. He's not a statue. But I don't think he's been coached all that well in college (or maybe more seriously, hasn't responded to the coaching). He's good enough to throw people open, and he's talented enough to drop in a throw 40 yards downfield in a hole in the coverage (which Tannehill can't do), but too often, Jones just plays confused. And I can't understand why.

Would you say the OU coaches are just frustrated with his lack of development? They don't even leave him in on the goal line anymore, which is why he threw one TD pass in his last five games. It almost seems like they look for reasons to take the game out of his hands, which is totally different than last year when they let him lead all of FBS in passing attempts and completions. It seemed before, they were willing to take the really, really good with the inexplicably bad, and now, they just don't want to deal with him anymore.

I guess what I'm saying is that if Jones isn't going to respond to coaching, I can't justify keeping him ranked above Tannehill, no matter how talented his right arm is.