Agreed. I will say the one INT Carr threw was the exact same forced slant (and INT by the same player lol) that Julian made. It’s acceptable that Carr tried because he’s a true freshman. Unacceptable for Julian to do that last week even if Smith was interfered with.
Exactly why I’m interested to the max to see what Luke has. The Julian we got this year was no where near good enough for a title run.
Carr threw into quadruple coverage and the pass could have been intercepted by any of them. The one that deflected was the only player not between the QB and the wr at the time of the pass. It was caught instead by a fifth defender.
Julian threw to an open JJ with no one in front of the ball. There was a single defender on the pass, with no shot at breaking up the pass so he ran through and tackled JJ before it came, leading to a ricochet INT.
Carr tried to force the rpo into even more extreme coverage than Jeremiah sometimes gets. Julian made the correct read and the referees punished JJ for being large and somehow didn't care when that size discrepancy wasn't enough to prevent getting mauled like an over the back penalty on a b1g rebound. It's frankly a bit of an achievement to actually appear capable of interfering with JJ. Usually it looks like a mild inconvenience during the extreme cheating.
Julian is not perfect, and pretty clearly was badly injured very early in this contest. He does not miss those underneath throws like he was doing all game by a lot. But equating the two is quite unfair and will not permit a true freshman that is undersized to be properly reviewed this week.
And no, Tommy at home was not close to an injured Julian in his play at IU
Tommy had about 114 yds through the same point of the fourth quarter. He finished with 75 yds less and no tds vs 2 for Julian. They both had one actual pick (and Julian's appeared to be the injury speculation)
Carr is much more athletic than Julian, he did some things that almost let them win 15-point rock fight. He shows a little more touch and intelligence than Bryce ever did. There is more potential sure, but the bar he's trying to clear is hilariously low.
Whereas Julian is being judged by whether or not he puts CJ Stroud to shame and also whether or not he can overcome a team that doesn't have an offensive line, a running game, a pass rush, and usually a special teams whatsoever. Julian meeds to be at worst the third best quarterback in school history if they're going to do what they want to do.
Carr needs to be better than shane morris. If he had been there preseason and or they were brave enough to bench Bryce, they'd be heading to the playoffs this year with zero other improvements. His current performance is understandable given how young he is, but let's be honest about the standards against which they're being judged and how that leads to massive misratings between Julian and Carr
We are firmly in another 2007 style season. Let's hope this time they don't let the team off the mat in the sugar bowl.
