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"If you start a young QB against a good team and he gets crushed you will ruin him."
Where the **** does this actually come from? It is bull**** if you ask me. Players don't grow without adversity.
I have heard porsters say this in terms of why you can't play Emory at FSU over a hurt TVD. It makes no logical sense and is just a soft mentality excuse. Ask Tua.
Used to be the case with a different generation of player.
Now we're in an era where Trevor Lawrence can throw four picks in the first half of a Playoffs game and then turn it around second half for a comeback win.
Kids today have short memories and don't get confidence fully destroyed by one bad game—thanks to the overconfidence they're now raised with.
You don't start Williams against FSU because they playbook would have to be so dumbed down and simplified like it was against Clemson for him to just hang. He's not ready. Meanwhile Brown still can't hit the broadside of a bard with his passing game.
You start Van Dyke. hope he plays to his potential and you have Williams ready to go if No. 9 starts giving the game away—while having a few plays drawn up or Brown's athleticism for third down or goal line situations.