I say this with a lot of love Derka. You know this. You tend to fly off the handle and need a bro to reel you back in. So that's why I said what I said.
This isn't about thinking Ewers is perfect. It's just the opposite. My daughter's high school vball team has 8 committed players and yet they still managed to lose games this years. All it takes is the right team, an off day, a bad attitude, or the wrong gameplan. We were never going undefeated in the SEC Derka. Some of us still had our Big12 goggles on. We assumed, because it used to be true, that we were inherently better than other teams. However, teams like Georgia have been on this "best team in the country" journey way longer than us. Georgia SHOULD never lose and SHOULD have won 3 or 4 trophies in a row but they can't stay focused. Arrests. Car crashes and deaths. Complacency. Even with all that they've still only allowed themselves to lose only 2 games over the last 3 years, both to Bama. We were the perfect thing to get them laser focused. A relatively unknown Blue Blood looking to come in here and take over the conference, that had beaten them solidly in a bowl game and bragged about it.
Quinn is, just like everyone else, not perfect. Bijan would often dance a little too much instead of hit the hole. Worthy got re-routed way too often. Even VY, the best college player I've ever seen, struggled from the pocket some games. We scored 0 points vs OU, almost lost to Kansas, and were down 1000 points to OSU. The measure of a player is how frequently they are good, not if they are perfect. In our lifetime Texas has been exactly as good as it's QB play. If any fanbase should appreciate Quinn it should be us. We've been wandering in the desert in large part because we couldn't get a Quinn Ewers. Now that we have one we already don't appreciate him and are causing another Applewhite-Simms controversy as if we don't know better. Ewers just faced two of the best DCs in the country and had a couple subpar games where he still played better than the guy across from him, as crazy as that sounds. He will likely get back on the horse as he has done over the last year and a half. The only thing that could derail him is the hatred and lack of appreciation from this fanbase. Simms should be celebrated at Texas for leading some of the most successful Texas teams we've had. Instead we ran him off, making him never want to step foot on this campus again. Let's NOT do that again.