Jake has like 3 things to work on to be elite

Jan 9, 2025
10:48:56am

Big12Yfan All-American

Touch on the ball, situational awareness, and deep ball accuracy. He has shown he can make improvements, if these are addressed BYU will have an epic year in 2025

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Author

Time

Thoughts on Retzlaff

Wise One

Jan 9, 10:32am

You didn't see improvement between last season and this season? Boardname does not check out.

kccougar

Jan 9, 10:33am

The throw to Marion in the bowl game is your best example?

darkcoug

Jan 9, 10:34am

The throw was short. Marion had to stop and turn around. Ball needed to go

Wise One

Jan 9, 2:42pm

Same QB doesn’t go 0-4 one season and 11-2 the next without improvement.

RalphWiggam

Jan 9, 10:35am

And TBF - *BYU* went 0-4 in those starts, not Retz. Most difficult first four

oxcoug

Jan 9, 11:08am

WVU has a total team meltdown in his first start, he was arguably the

oxcoug

Jan 9, 11:09am

We went 11-2 because of our

Wise One

Jan 9, 4:15pm

Nobody says he is elite

Jericho

Jan 9, 10:36am

He increased his completion rating by 7.5 percent this year. His yards per

marinact

Jan 9, 10:37am

Don't confuse haters with stats.

Archaea

Jan 9, 10:38am

Also, his pick-6-in-key-moments ratio is much better.

Doogal McCougar

Jan 9, 10:43am

By 7.5 percent or 7.5 percentage points?

HarlemCoug

Jan 9, 10:44am

7.5 percentage points

marinact

Jan 9, 11:52am

The throw in the bowl game was a drop by Marion lol. People love to hate smh

arcawley

Jan 9, 10:37am

Two things about Retzlaff can be and are true

RockyBalboa

Jan 9, 10:39am

Some other QBs w completion percentages "below 60%" - John Beck 2004 at 55.9%

oxcoug

Jan 9, 10:42am

Jake improved drastically the first 8 games of the season. He was bad his last

BYUheaven

Jan 9, 10:44am

I'm not a math major - but I'm pretty sure that the percentages would say...

Eddie

Jan 9, 10:44am

Good thing there is a pretty objective way to measure improvement...stats, so...

NOCAL_YFAN

Jan 9, 10:47am

Jake has like 3 things to work on to be elite

Big12Yfan

Jan 9, 10:48am

I don't think anybody is arguing that he is an elite QB. There are only a handful of elite QBs in the

Skeptical Optimist

Jan 9, 10:51am

I think he improved, but . . . .

Ethman

Jan 9, 10:54am

If you didn't see improvement from last year to this year then there is honestly no

kimdaddy35

Jan 9, 10:56am

Here's two sets of numbers I pulled on QBs entering a season w/ as many starts as Jake and their improvement

Spiff

Jan 9, 1:35pm

Robertson > Leavitt > Johnson > Becht > Retzlaff

DudeBro

Jan 9, 11:21am

Can’t throw the long ball? I don’t know about that…

Refugee

Jan 9, 11:23am

If we played Southern Illinois every week everyone would think he was great

johnnybyu

Jan 9, 11:42am

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