So in the bowl game, Shane throws a TD on the first drive, which was after Missouri committed an interference penalty, a holding, and a face mask. Sam then comes in, and drives the offense for a TD capped with his TD pass. Then, Shane gets injured and Sam finishes the game that we win 33-16. So that's one of Shane's wins?
Call that a Sam win, and then he wins the San Jose, K State, West Va games--that's 4, with two excellent wins; and loses OU, OSU, and USC in VERY close games, probably our three toughest opponents, and loses to Tech, which was a bad loss. So, I call it 4-4
Shane beat Baylor and Kansas, two horrible teams, lost to Maryland, a horrible loss, beat Iowa State, a good win, and lost to TCU, which is understandable. 3-2 against a far weaker schedule.
Sam: 11 TDs 7 INTs; QBR 53
Shane 7 TD's 4 INTs; QBR 41 (against weaker teams)
Plus, Shane had had a whole year in the system as starting QB before Sam even got out of HS. I read a piece on Horns247 that went deeply into the data and showed that Sam was better as a passer, as a runner and overall.
You of course are free to disagree, but to act as if it is somehow "clear" that Shane is better is too simple.
Finally, as to Sam's "boneheaded" plays. It is completely different for a player on an un-ranked underdog team (yes, that was UT) in the last seconds of games against heavily favored highly-ranked teams (yes, that was USC, OU, and OSU) to try a desperate last-second thing when behind in the game to try to win it than for a favored team to lose a lead and a game because the QB turns the ball over. For that matter, Shane's taking of the sack in the OU game at the end was probably the bone-headed candidate for that game, not Sam throwing the ball out of bounds on 4th and long.
If either of these guys is healthy and gets blocking, we can win with them.
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