Maye hits crossbar with 83 yard throw

[Wozzy]

Milton is a very raw rookie with real flaws in his game. There’s a reason why he didn’t go higher in the draft. Everyone knows that. Defensive or not seems pointless spending time pointing out what everyone already knows…

I just thought it was funny people hyping up Milton’s arm and athleticism when Maye is a similar athlete.

We don’t need a board cop, we already have mods and it’s the offseason. There’s nothing else to talk about.

 

[Wozzy]

He wasn’t aiming at anything he was trying to throw it as far as he could.

So he closed his eyes?

 

[sb1]

I just thought it was funny people hyping up Milton’s arm and athleticism when Maye is a similar athlete.

We don’t need a board cop, we already have mods and it’s the offseason. There’s nothing else to talk about.

Yeah Milton does have a great arm but there are other flaws in his game that makes his ceiling very low right now. He’s just a prospect nothing more.

 

[sb1]

So he closed his eyes?

Do I have “unreal accuracy” if I heave a basketball as far as I can for a full court shot and it goes in?

Bet I couldn’t do it twice and doubtful Maye could do the same on his throw. That’s not accuracy.

 

[Wozzy]

Do I have “unreal accuracy” if I heave a basketball as far as I can for a full court shot and it goes in?

Did you aim?

 

[Thelonious]

Now all we need is a fifteen-foot-tall receiver.

 

[Wozzy]

Now all we need is a fifteen-foot-tall receiver.

Thornton

 

[Thelonious]

Thornton

15' 2", 135 pounds. Why not?

 

[Wozzy]

15' 2", 135 pounds. Why not?

6'2" tall, arms longer than many of our offensive linemen, 39" vertical leap, that's a little over 12 feet high...

Maye will just have to take a little off of it.

 

[sb1]

Did you aim?

Sure I aimed but I’m not going to pretend it’s skill that it went in. Accuracy is a skill. I wouldn’t call that “unreal accuracy”…

 

[KCSVEN]

Sounding like a broken record here, but here are W/L records and per game stats versus Top 25 teams over their last 2 years. Milton was more accurate against much better ranked teams (which included Georgia), and that was with mind numbing drops like the below. TBF my dream would be for Maye to be the successful long time starter and Milton to be the long time backup... after Zap wins the SB in '25. I like all of them and hope they all succeed.

Drake Maye (avg team rank 18)
1-3 56% 250yds 2.3TD 1INT

Joe Milton (avg team rank 8)
1-3 66.7% 234yds 1.5TD 0.25INT

IN 2021 there was a scientific paper done to analyze things that determine whether a college QB will be successful in the NFL. What they found:

"..among quarterbacks selected for the NFL, college passing ability was not significantly correlated with NFL performance."

That sample size is so ridiculously small, Maye played 2 of those games basically on 1 leg.

What that same study found was QBR and rushing ability were 2 things that translated. Maye blows Milton away QBR and Maye seems to have a small edge in rushing ability, but Milton only played one year and ran pretty well.

A UNC team without Maye was completely inept in the bowl game. Against the very middling, 65th ranked West Virginia defense they scraped 10 points together.
Without Milton, and facing the 7th ranked Iowa defense Tennessee put up 35 points.

This same study analyze performance against better defenses vs worse defenses.
The adjusted QBR adjusts the rating for the strength of the defense played.
Miltons QBR for the ENTIRE year was 70, Maye had QBR above 70 in 3 of the 4 games against ranked opponents and was 68 in the other
Maye was under pressure on 29% of drop-backs vs 24% for Maye which is the #1 thing that effects QB performance. Yet Maye still blew Milton away.


Percent of starts with Adjusted QBR:
QBR over 70: Maye 77%, MIlton 64%
QBR over 80: Maye 58%, Milton 35%
QBR over 90: Maye 23%, Milton 14%