[CardinalSagehen]

From my understanding McKee also looked lackluster in public practices. Is that wrong?

I saw him throw a couple picks.  Bad ones.  But that's just practice, and who knows what he was being asked to do.  His decision-making in games has been exceptionally good so far.

Talk to Iverson about that. I am pretty sure the problem Shaw as concerned about was that McKee wasn't all that accurate in practice. Right now, in games, he is. It could have just been rust, but it was an issue in the spring for sure. It is interesting to me that people are totally willing to disregard data when it doesn't fit their model of events. I am quite confident Shaw really wanted McKee to be the starter. He isn't an idiot. He knows that having a younger QB with a bigger arm is better than a 5th year who can't throw deep. The fact Shaw didn't take the easy choice and choose McKee tells me the issues were real, not misguided loyalty to an experienced player. We have no way of knowing what happened during the summer, so how can we possibly say Shaw's decision was not justified?

I agree. As proof that McKee is human and therefore fallible, which most of us haven't seen in games, I found this in my camera roll from August 15.  He underthrows Higgins in double-coverage and hits Williamson instead.  It's just one throw, although I saw another one where he was trying to hit the TE over the middle with a little floater pass that was very ill-advised. 

This isn't any kind of complete data set, but we really don't know what Shaw saw and can't start from the assumption that McKee was clearly superior in practice. 

https://youtu.be/-toEkmAftMM

[CardinalSagehen]

From my understanding McKee also looked lackluster in public practices. Is that wrong?

I saw him throw a couple picks.  Bad ones.  But that's just practice, and who knows what he was being asked to do.  His decision-making in games has been exceptionally good so far.

Talk to Iverson about that. I am pretty sure the problem Shaw as concerned about was that McKee wasn't all that accurate in practice. Right now, in games, he is. It could have just been rust, but it was an issue in the spring for sure. It is interesting to me that people are totally willing to disregard data when it doesn't fit their model of events. I am quite confident Shaw really wanted McKee to be the starter. He isn't an idiot. He knows that having a younger QB with a bigger arm is better than a 5th year who can't throw deep. The fact Shaw didn't take the easy choice and choose McKee tells me the issues were real, not misguided loyalty to an experienced player. We have no way of knowing what happened during the summer, so how can we possibly say Shaw's decision was not justified?

I agree. As proof that McKee is human and therefore fallible, which most of us haven't seen in games, I found this in my camera roll from August 15.  He underthrows Higgins in double-coverage and hits Williamson instead.  It's just one throw, although I saw another one where he was trying to hit the TE over the middle with a little floater pass that was very ill-advised. 

This isn't any kind of complete data set, but we really don't know what Shaw saw and can't start from the assumption that McKee was clearly superior in practice. 

https://youtu.be/-toEkmAftMM