1) Reading/logic fail to conclude that claiming that the sum total of three ancillary categories is higher is equivalent to claiming one QB is better than others. None of the three things I mentioned, nor their combination, makes Zach a better QB than Beck or Hall. By the end of their careers, those guys' decision-making and mastery of their offense (the two most important attributes a QB can have - even accuracy is less important than those two) were far above what we've seen from Zach so far, with good reason.

2) Beck his freshman year was a mess, and his sophomore year was mostly pedestrian with flashes of something more. Even his junior year wasn't real special, though there were more flashes of potential brilliance. It all came together his senior year for him, when he had a top-five all-time season for a BYU QB.

3) Hall struggled in several big games. He was bad to awful every time he played Utah, and his last two games against TCU were not good, either. This is with better weapons than any BYU QB has ever had, at least in 2007 and 2008.

4) Zach did not choke anything away last year. The NIU gameplan was an embarrassment; that wasn't on him. Yeah, he should have thrown the ball away instead of scrambling on the last play against BSU, but if our coaches hadn't mismanaged the clock so badly, that wouldn't have been an issue. As for Utah, you can say what you want about the pick-six, but his QBR that game was the highest against Utah that we have seen since Beck graduated.