Agree to disagree then Hokie.....I will agree there were some "forced" throws that turned into interceptions and I remember a tip drill int as well
so perhaps I'm not completely in the right, not ashamed to admit it ha ha
OK, if you're going to do that, then I'm going to concede that Jones looked waaaaaay off in this game. I mean, horrible. Why? Was he rattled? Who knows, maybe he was.
WF got great pressure rushing 3 early in the game. Did that speed up Jone's head clock so that he rushed decisions from there on out? The pressure eventually disappeared as the game went on and Jones had great looking pockets in the 2nd half, but did Jones not slow his head clock back down and adjust to game conditions?
The roughing the punter, both blocked punts, and at least 2 (if not 3) of the 4 INTs, to me, looked they were not caused by WF's defense, but instead were due to poor discipline (roughing), poor alignment (blocked punts), one deflected pass that hit a receiver right in the hands, or just plain 'ole bad decision making (INTs).
2 INTs, for example, hit linebackers in the chest on quick slants. Yes, the linebackers dropped back into the correct lanes, but even a middle school QB knows not to throw those passes when there's a linebacker standing between him and the receiver. So who gets credit for those turnovers? Was it great defense or was it a QB not even pretending to look at his throwing lanes the way he should've been? For some QBs, you think maybe the defense confused him. But Jones is a 3 year starter who somehow got selected to play in the Shrine Bowl. I don't know about you guys, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a Shrine Bowl QB who couldn't read a defense on a quick slant.