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I guess Winston was a lot smarter in 2013, when he had 10 INTS.
He also had Kelvin Benjamin. He threw a lot of passes his freshman year that would have been picked if his target wasn't a 6-5, 240 first round pick.
I honestly think this year was a better representation of his talent than last year. With a year of film on him defensive coaches were able to scope out his tendencies and force him to go through his progressions instead of locking onto his top targets. Last year you couldn't double cover Rashad Greene because FSU still had Benjamin, Kenny Shaw, and Nick O'Leary.
Teams were able to double Greene this year and he forced a lot of passes that got picked because he couldn't bail himself out by throwing jump balls to Benjamin anymore and struggled to progress through his reads and find the open man.
He also hits a ton of wide open guys for big plays because of the FSU scheme. I have no idea why Mariota gets negged for this while he doesn't.