see, I don't rate QBs on their won loss stats
only morons do that
For example Clausen had Weis as his coach and his first year the team was horrible. Yes he did have some great WRs to throw to but how good was his O line?
I saw Clausen throw passes into such incredibly tight windows regularly. The stats lie a lot of the time; the Mark 1 Eyeball is the real test
He was the best PASSER I ever saw at ND. Montana was certainly a better QB; but as regards pure passing no one was better
Yeah, well.... he sucked. ND's rosters were not that shitty when he was there, that's way more than a myth. He had a legit QB guru who handpicked him in Weis Sr., and nurtured and coddled him. And while he had a big junior year and flashed his 'arm talent' quite a bit, mainly on slant routes that apparently made him such a wunderkind. And then went to the NFL and absolutely did not make it at all. After being a three year college starter with the offense revolving around him. And as a 2nd round pick someone who definitely had his chance to impress and consistently didn't.
And he was about as uncharismatic and naturally not likable as you could possibly be. So much so that it actually hurt his NFL career. And yet ND fans still cling to him as
the misunderstood and underrated golden boy of the modern era for ND, who was felt to have been robbed somehow, in some unspecified way from achieving his true greatness, when the exact opposite would be true and he enjoyed every last possible advantage and opportunity. To the point that he appeared to have been so coddled and so overly nurtured and catered to, vaguely reminiscent of Todd Marinovich only from a totally rich family, that it probably stunted his development. In fact it almost certainly did.
But it's true that he has a pretty nice highlight reel. And a terrible W/L record.
