quinn drives me completely fucking nuts but it was good to see him get into somewhat of a rhythm and deliver some balls with confidence with near perfect protection and against an extremely depleted defense as we would hope he would. he was still frustrating in his routinely throwing off his back foot even with a completely clean protection situation but this was obviously the best quinn we have seen in a long time. he threw some absolute stinkers (miss to bond on first drive, horrible throw on the second golden td, the should have been pick deep in our end) but he threw some of his best balls of the year as well.
unfortunately, this game doesn't signal that quinn is suddenly ready to be effective against a above average defense that can pressure him given the state of florida's team but it does signal that he is back to making the occasional throw with confidence and he's gotten some of his intermediate accuracy back. he made really good reads other than the near pick throughout the game. if we get this quinn the rest of the way, we should make it to the playoff. if we can get a quinn that stops throwing off his back foot falling away for no reason, has confidence to throw strikes even when not wide open, and one that is slightly more mobile, we could contend for the national championship. the offensive line cannot be perfect every play...if he can help them out occasionally, potent offense.
and the irony of the game last weekend is that moore has been a fucking clutch stud all year bailing us out left and right...and then he gets two big plays that are substantially easier than all those other plays and he fucks them both. second drop on the td pass from quinn was perfect...he just flubbed it. he earned a pass for those two based on his play the rest of the year but he needs to tighten up his shit a little.