SayWhat
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While I hope for the kid's sake and our sake that he improves into an NFL-quality passer, that's not necessarily the target. He just needs to be good enough to run a top college football offense.
If we project a couple years in the future, we should have an OL of 6'5, 325 monsters. If you add in a 6'4, 225 Jacurri Brown, your defense needs to worry about a tough runner who can brutalize you in short yardage while also having the ability for explosive house-calls. And if he hands off, you're talking about another physical monster in Mark Fletcher or a 10.4 speedster in Chris Johnson who can fly by if you get caught staring at Brown (think Demps and Rainey at Florida).
Jacurri needs to be able to throw well enough to take advantage of the heavy boxes he's going to face. If he improves his placement on horizontal throws, his zip will allow guys like Joseph and Washington to eat after the catch. And he will have opportunities for explosive plays down the field. This is a guy with natural twitch in his arm and playmaking instincts.
Jacurri laid an egg on Saturday but that wasn't the story all of spring. Cristobal said as much in his presser, and I can confirm. He just needs to keep working.
That's certainly a glass is overflowing picture of what could be potential.
As for what the Spring story has been for two decades, we should've had multiple Heisman trophies and a ton of other collegiate position awards. Mario saying whatever at the presser is something every coach has said that's been fired.
I'm not writing Brown off because he'll do that on his own if he doesn't improve his passing game. Let's just call it like it is, rather than prognosticate the absolute best outcome should everything fall miraculously into place.
When is just good enough, well, good enough here?

