because he's not pulling the trigger at the right time to the right guy, as are the passes in to "tight coverage" that just are not thrown when the they need to be thrown. The timing here is just a few seconds per play, and 2-3 seconds can often make a HUGE difference. And then many keep blaming the WR for not always making the "SPECTACULAR CATCH, with someone draped all over them. The key is to try to avoid those wing-and-a-prayer situations as much as possible, just like we try to avoid 3rd and long. Not that we can't ever convert 3rd and long, nor that WR can't get up a just make the catch like Shumway did yesterday, but it's just that that odds are statistically less favorable if we're too often finding ourselves in such do-or-die scenarios.

Personally I think that Tanner puts us in a lot of "statistically" difficult positions, mainly because he seems to have a deficiency in processing the field at this level of play and at this speed, and he's far from the first to have that problem. Many hyped QB's have likewise failed at this speed of play. They're not deficient people - just not capable of this job, much like I would be deficient at working on the chaotic NYSE floor. Perhaps he would be great at doing that at lower tiers of football, but just not at this level. And perhaps he was capable of it as a frosh, but something has happened between then and now that has quite obviously affected his ability to see the field. Perhaps it's too many hits to the noggin without a clearly definable medical diagnosis, or perhaps it's happy feet / eyes from getting blind-sided and slammed to the turf at the hands of porous Olines (of the past). Or, perhaps it's something else (?meds), but his processing is just not up to the speed that the rest of the offense needs to succeed in reaching their potential. And I'm not sure that the rest of the team should suffer this out, when Tanner's never going to play his way in to the NFL, and only has about 3 months and 9 games left of football before he is forced to go in a different professional trajectory. Some team (and if I were the UW DC, I'd do it) is going to ABSOLUTELY sell out to stop the run, and FORCE Tanner to beat them over the top, while only allowed to roll to his left. IMO, based on many games of evidence, that situation is statistical very likely to result in failure for the BYU offense.