re: Watched the game twice my observations

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You can't step away from your myopic view on Bo Nix, and look at the situation objectively. Nix has had every chance in the world to separate his self and be the clear cut #1 guy. Various posters here, have succinctly pointed out his stats and his lack of progression in basic fundamentals. Most importantly, his failure to get into the endzone. We had a guy come of the bench, cold, and play as well, if not better than the guy who has started for 3 years. At some point, you just have to cut bait.

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I see the difference in Nix and Finley on 1 play.

Nix's 4th down throw in the EZ of the Penn St game, and the 4th down throw by Finley in the Ga St game.
Both plays pretty much would seal us losing or winning.

Bo takes the 4th down call and executes it regardless of what he sees with the DB locking up Hudson, but throws it anyway.

JT takes the 4th down call, begins to execute it but reads the DB, sees he is locking up Jackson, and instead of executing the play anyway, he senses it's not going to work, pulls his arm back, and looks for another option.

The difference I feel is that Bo still, and I feel, will always lack QB mentality of how he sees a pass play developing and knowing instinctively to not execute a bad play or read the defense well enough to go a different direction.

Finley seems to show(with limited video ofc), a QB mentality that you can't teach, and it shows in how he sees a play, the defense, or an option that might be better than the play called.

Some QBs have it, some don't. It just seems to me that Finley thinks more like a passing QB, and Nix thinks more like an athlete who plays QB and has learned to be a passer, but his ceiling is what we have seen this year.