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OT: watched the new battle bots the other night for the first time, it's great. But between that, a Bush and. Clinton running for office and I feel like we went back in time.

This is kind of a ridiculous way of looking at things- they ran completely different offenses in completely different eras. Most notably, Oregon ran 1100 plays last year while Vick ran 1500 plays or so his entire collegiate career. Mariota was a great QB in his own right and certainly better than his predecessors, but consider that Darron Thomas and others had run that offense quite well with gaudy stats. Vick was a complete revelation.

My crystal ball wants to FTFY:

Catches a Tarpon, woos the TV sportscaster. Beats Ohio State twice. His resume grows and grows.

Mariota had more passing yards in 2 of his 3 seasons than Vick had in his entire college career. Mariota also rushed for more yards in every season than Vick ever did in a season (with more YPC too). Mariota had a significantly higher completion percentage than Vick ever did as well (nearly 10%). On top of that, Vick topped out at 22 TDs (13 pass 9 rush) in a season in his best year, Mariota had literally almost TRIPLE that his last year of college, finishing with 42 pass TDs and 15 rushing TDs.

I really don't see how you can in any way say that Vick was far superior to that when he is bested in literally every catagory.

And with regards to the "better team" argument. I'd say that's also quite bogus. It has no real comparable measures.

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