I cannot understand why some people don’t take this into account when discussing the two halves...
curious when that happened in the 3rd quarter. they showed it during the procast as well as the medical staff working on the sideline, but never gave a time frame. they did raise the question about shawn coming in and i do think that collins stayed in was telling.
i thought he went out of bounds on the ou side on the 1st drive of the 3rd and he only threw one more ball on that drive and that was the ball behind austin.
next series started with the deep ball to john stephens which i thought was easily his best throw of the game. throw was accurate and showed confidence that his receiver would make the catch.
unfortunately the lack of a running game inside the 20 doomed that series. i would have liked to have seen frogs try a fade to stephens. stanford doesn't even hide what they are going to do with the one receiver, john has the frame and strength, and i would love to see tcu have one thing in the red zone defenses have to expect
third series he missed reagor on the deep post. the read was right and throw was accurate, but too flat. he throws the ball he did to stephens on the sideline and reagor is gone for the score.
could have been the hand, could have been the lack of playing time, and there really is only one way to find out.
fourth quarter we know he has the hand issue. makes an accurate throw on a deep out to the ou sideline, but it gets broken up. you can't tell on the television if that was the correct throw. huard had shown eariler on replay that the throw to austin wasn't the right choice and tv doesn't always give those angles.
last "real" series unfortunately started at the 2. the deep ball to jalen was there, but whether it was the hand or not recognizing it fast enough is something none of us can really answer, but the ball didn't get out in front of jalen.
the interception looked to be a case of he thought he saw one thing, turpin reacted to coverage and did another and the ou defender got an easy interception.
the biggest thing in most of the misses seemed to be a timing issue and a lack of game experience. you can't go backwards and talk about when he should have played and the staff to me has a pretty simple decision. shawn looks to be a shell of what he was a month ago and he showed nothing on saturday to believe he was going to turn it around. collins showed confidence which is something they haven't had in the quarterback position for a few weeks.
i don't think you split snaps, i don't think you work in game reps right now. if they go with collins they have to give him the starters work during the week and let him go at least in the first half.
how he addresses some of those throws and decisions as well as a defense game planning to attack him without a running game is critical. cordel coming back would help