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Didn’t know where to put this: https://www.solidverbal.com/episodes/spring-intel-qb-battles-line-questions-and-offseason-buzz/ Excerpt: I’m interested in Jaden Craig, the Harvard transfer at TCU. I have been detecting reports around his arm strength. Okay. I.e., under-throwing passes, i.e., if your arm isn’t super strong, you need to do a little bit better in the anticipation department and throwing guys open instead of waiting for them to come open. Sure. We have seen some issues around that to the extent where some in the TCU world have talked about that they need to tweak the offense if he’s the unquestioned starter. Right. Right. So if we can’t throw downfield the way we might like, are we playing a little bit more pickleball? Is it a shorter field than some would expect? I don’t know if that’s true. I don’t know if that’s fair. We certainly know that Jaden Craig is a little bit more of a runner. He’s a bigger guy than the likes of Josh Hoover. And for what it’s worth, he didn’t really turn the ball over nearly as much as Josh Hoover did. So maybe there’s an upgrade, and maybe it all comes out in the wash. He was an Ivy League quarterback, to be sure. So different than throwing into like the Texas Tech defense. I’m with you. I’m just pointing out some of why this makes it interesting to me. Right. And this makes it interesting to me to see what Jaden Craig looks like in the Big 12. Yeah, I mean, look, Josh Hoover last season completed 65% of his passes, did, you know, I think Sonny Dykes was very clear about his thoughts about the turnovers that Josh Hoover was involved with, and then, you know, the back and forth with he and Kurt Cignetti. But I don’t love to see that kind of thing in spring where it’s like, “Oh, he doesn’t really have much of an arm.” No. And maybe that’s being overblown in spring, and maybe he, but I’m just, not an ideal first impression. I haven’t seen it phrased as he doesn’t have much of an arm. Okay. But I have seen a lot of like indirect reference to the arm strength. Allusions? Yeah. Yeah. People talking about underthrows pretty consistently in the early part of spring, anyway. So just watch that. Just watch.