I bet if Lock played the rest of the game after he first came in....

Spot on! But ole Gary will give us this and keep playing Mauk. It's time to find out how Lock can do for a whole game.

Look around the conference Gary. Teams that aren't very good are making changes. It's time for one here!

I remember when you called him Mauksiah and Mauktober

Maybe now it's Locksiah and Locktober

What's the buddha say about consistently thinking a freshman QB is the answer to your problems

Although I would like to see Lock play more for sure

The Buddha would not worry about constant thought, but would bring peace to those that are. He would remind them that a wise person would see the drought as a reason to love the coming rains even more. He would tell us all not to fret for the imperfect times that are but inevitable. He would say that we should all look forward to the future, realizing that without struggle now there is no tomorrow, only misfortune.

It's clear Mauk is a mid-major quarterback.

He's playing the same way he did in high school and now that the surrounding talent has leveled off, he's incapable of elevating an offense on his own. He's too inaccurate to sustain an offense on long drives from the pocket and opposing DCs have figured it out.

Pinkel made half of a decision in not redshirting Lock.

Now he needs decide when's the right time to let the other shoe drop and make the switch.

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Spot on! But ole Gary will give us this and keep playing Mauk. It's time to find out how Lock can do for a whole game.

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maybe.. maybe not, thinking about this over night, I think I see the real issue now with Mauk, he can't run the plays as designed, he's not capable of seeing and making the reads, he's like a real life version of Willie Beamon out there, doing what he can do to make a play because it's really all he can do and it occasionally works. The reason the offense doesn't look like steaming dung when Lock is on the field is because he actually can run the offense that Henson is trying to run as designed.

It's going to be Henson and maybe Hill setting down with Gary and saying "look, we can run the same 5 plays that Matty can do, over and over or we can put in Lock and use the playbook, it's up to you", and at some point even Gary is going to see the obvious truth in it. Pinkel has a tendency to back himself into corners with his Gary speak of "doing what we do" and "no QB controversy here" crap, he needs to wake up and realize "do the same thing every day" as ole Donny told him, may not be some commandment carved in stone from above. Just maybe everything out of James mouth wasn't the word of "football jesus" the way Gary has made it out to be (in his own mind of course) and shouldn't be taken as a literal absolute.

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Look around the conference Gary. Teams that aren't very good are making changes.

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and some teams that aren't even that bad are making changes as well, look at how Spurrier can change QBs on a whim and still win games or at least get offensive production, but then Ole Ball has the football instincts that Gary has really never had. Pinkel still seems to be missing out on the fact that when you have to change players every few years and other teams adjust to you, you really can't just do the same thing over and over.

Do you believe a guy like Dave Christensen might know that when he didn't have a player like Chase running the spread things might go south in hurry? I do, and I think it's one of the reasons he moved on to a starter job in a dust bin conference.

Pinkel is also likely thinking about the situation w/ Mauks dad and his cancer and how they relocated to Mo and all. Nothing wrong with that, you can't discount the human side of the issues but at the end of the day there is only one thing you have to decide really and that's what's best for the team. The best thing for the team is to play the player who gives them the best chance to win. What's the point of having an offense drawn up of which most of you can't even run? What OC is going to let that situation go on and just "keep it to himself", because there's not much doubt that Henson is at least as smart as Christensen.