Oh, you think? You think this forum of pretty darn vicious haters is making him out to be worse than he actually is? Yeah, I think so too.
And that has to be one of the lamest, bullshit, debunkable slanders that Book endures from these haters, that he's always missing these wide open WRs on deep routes. Like, if we had an ESPN-televised special debate with experts on both sides who were given full coaches level game film to analyze and study that the haters would be revealed as just that. That Ian Book is not some QB who could be throwing for 400+ yards and five TDs every game, and there's a constant myriad of wide open WRs that he just misses like a complete incompetent or something. It's not just bullshit it's obvious nonsense. When watching on regular TV it's not even possible to see all these supposedly wide open WRs. They're just lying. Straight up deliberately lying.
I would be willing to concede that Book may be more cautious than most QBs and doesn't have the most arm talent to hit in stride all these supposedly blatantly open WRs, and so maybe he's more temperamentally inclined to look for the easier, more high-percentage throws. Which is fine, he's playing to his strengths. My only occasional grumble is screwing up some of the easy throws for no particularly good reason, but that's also going to happen. No QB passes for 75% percentage, even in spread offenses.
Bottom line Ian Book IMO does not have that much arm talent, he's not that good a thrower. He's competent, and he can be a very successful system QB in this offense when he's in his groove and he will hit some downfield throws as well. And that's pretty much what he's been, it's what this offense is, and the team has been remarkably successful with him as the starter, and he has personally put up excellent numbers overall. And the odds that Brandon Clark or even the great Phil Jurkovic is going to take over and start throwing 40-yard darts down the field one after another is not just fantasy stuff, it's deliberate nonsense from this sorry ass crew of haters on this board who go out of their way, very clumsily, very transparently, to shit all over Ian Book week after week because they're bored, unfulfilled and lonely men.