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I think Tavita Pritchard and Troy Taylor have quite good QB development resumes. What I think happened is that Shaw was not a good offensive coach and made life more difficult for QBs than it needed to be at the college level and Taylor didn’t have much to work with.

I am not so sure about Troy Taylor's QB development resume. Indeed he had a great one at Eastern Washington in Gage Gubrud. Taylor also called the plays. The qualifier is that Eastern Washington was already a very successful program with a definite "personality". How much of Gubrud's development was TT and how much was the environment he was in and the absolutely stellar receivers he had is IMO hard to know. The subsequent faceplant by TT at Utah make me wonder. When TT was hired I raised that as a question, but I was willing to see what TT could accomplish at Stanford. IMO the fact TT was eventually characterized as an "equal opportunity asshole" might shed some light on his Utah situation.
 
TT certainly was not a very successful QB coach in his two year stint at that position at Kal. Unfortunately, the same environment questions apply to this stint but in the opposite direction. During TT's stint at Folsom high school TT had Jake Browning, who he coached from the 5th grade until he graduated from high school. Great QB. TT undoubtedly had something to do with it. However, there was a lot of natural ability present. How does one weight it?
 
The above is all Wikipedia. What I do know is that TT never was able to get Daniels or any other Stanford QB to complete a high percentage of passes in the flat. They sailed or tunneled. IMO that all by itself calls into question how "good" a QB coach TT was. That is a very low bar to teach a guy that has the physical abilities of Daniels. He doesn't need to "read" the coverage or throw the ball a long way. Just get it there. In general, neither he nor his backups could.
 
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I think Tavita Pritchard and Troy Taylor have quite good QB development resumes. What I think happened is that Shaw was not a good offensive coach and made life more difficult for QBs than it needed to be at the college level and Taylor didn’t have much to work with.

I am not so sure about Troy Taylor's QB development resume. Indeed he had a great one at Eastern Washington in Gage Gubrud. Taylor also called the plays. The qualifier is that Eastern Washington was already a very successful program with a definite "personality". How much of Gubrud's development was TT and how much was the environment he was in and the absolutely stellar receivers he had is IMO hard to know. The subsequent faceplant by TT at Utah make me wonder. When TT was hired I raised that as a question, but I was willing to see what TT could accomplish at Stanford. IMO the fact TT was eventually characterized as an "equal opportunity asshole" might shed some light on his Utah situation.
 
TT certainly was not a very successful QB coach in his two year stint at that position at Kal. Unfortunately, the same environment questions apply to this stint but in the opposite direction. During TT's stint at Folsom high school TT had Jake Browning, who he coached from the 5th grade until he graduated from high school. Great QB. TT undoubtedly had something to do with it. However, there was a lot of natural ability present. How does one weight it?
 
The above is all Wikipedia. What I do know is that TT never was able to get Daniels or any other Stanford QB to complete a high percentage of passes in the flat. They sailed or tunneled. IMO that all by itself calls into question how "good" a QB coach TT was. That is a very low bar to teach a guy that has the physical abilities of Daniels. He doesn't need to "read" the coverage or throw the ball a long way. Just get it there. In general, neither he nor his backups could.
 
What am I missing?