Questioning this decision would get you skinned alive two years ago. History was literally rewritten on Volnation to explain why Dobbs was the #3 QB behind Peterman. Dobbs was demoted to #3 and Peterman promoted to #2 due to Peterman's strong passing accuracy and Dobbs erratic passing. Peterman was NOT #2 because Dobbs was earmarked for red-shirt. That's a fiction. Dobbs was earmarked for RS because he was #3 behind Peterman, thus RS was a convenience.
The fact is that Peterman was a far far superior passing QB whose skills in QB camp were far far ahead of Dobbs and clearly the better than Worley. Frankly, Peterman was stunningly accurate in practice drills with darn near perfect ball placement. Peterman fractured a finger against Florida in his first start, but continued to play, resulting in the wild passes and fumbles everyone remembers.
The fact is, Dobbs has been highly erratic and inaccurate since the beginning. Nothing changed.
Due to a horrendously ineffective offensive line in 2014, it became apparent that we needed a QB who could run for his life against Alabama. Dobbs was inserted, did well, and the fans bought in to the hype and the rest is history.
Dobbs truly did give us a chance to compete with his legs. We traded a QB for a third running back. Now, we are living with that hangover. Only now are people coming to terms with the reality that we have no QB behind center. Peterman and Ferguson moved on. So did PW. Dobbs was never a QB, but a gimmick runner who kept things interesting - at the cost of a passing attack.
