Riley is obviously a very good quarterback coach, but it is also a factor that OU plays in a conference that has really bad defenses. I don't think OU has even gotten into that schedule yet, but I bet it's a good guess that the defenses they have played so far aren't much better than The Big 12. That aside, the only (part of) OU game I watched, most of Jalen's passes were within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage. He could do that fairly well even in his freshman year.

I don't think that Daboll caused Jalen to regress. He just didn't develop him to get better as Dan Enos did last year, and Riley has this year. I think Daboll wanted to play Tua earlier even than the Auburn game. Daboll didn't look bad at all the 2nd half of the national title game.

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Posted by bamameister

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Posted on 9/21/19 at 8:22 am to John Milner

The moment Tua came into a ball game in Daboll's offense he was a highlight machine. We went from prodding along with brut force under Jalen and Tua came in firing all over the field.

Daboll never had a QB that fit the system he was trying to run. In short, I doubt seriously if he had the authority to put the guy in that he knew could run his system. The NC game in the second half also gave us an idea of what could have happened down of the Plains in 2017. Daboll had receivers open, Jalen just couldn't put the ball on them.

A power run team with New England type spread concepts with Tua and the best receiver group in football? Yeah, give me 3 years of that. Instead, we got a half of a game against Georgia to remind us of what things could have looked like.

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