Well, I hope you're right, man. I guess that's why I prefaced what I wrote with an admission that I haven't seen a lot of him. I think the game that sat with me the most was the Alabama game. I just expected to see a QB with his reputation and talent really step up in a game against a team of that caliber, especially a conference rival, but he was flat the entire game to my eyes. To me, he just seems to have the Bledsoe disease of being able to really light up teams they SHOULD light up, but never able to really mount much of a challenge against teams they are not expected to beat.
To me, a gamer is someone who becomes like Captian James Tiberius Kirk on the field. No matter what, there is no surrender....no "no win scenario"....they just find a way to get that extra yard, score that clutch TD, and get as much out of themselves and the team as possible. It's the stuff of Kelly...Reich....Flutie....and Hamdan. It's leaders who don't just talk the talk, they actually walk it, too. Maybe I"m wrong, but I just haven't seen it in this kid. Maybe this year he'll exhibit it? I dunno. I do know I'm ready for some SEC ball, and I'm sure as hell ready to see friggin' Alabama get their ass handed to them by SOMEONE.