I'd go with Steve Young for JT. Young's mobility was under-rated and he was just damn accurate. Similarly astute personality and diligent student of the game.
Roeth is a great comparison for how Cardale projects to NFL, but in terms of college -- for some reason he reminds me more of Favre ? Favre wasn't running over DL, but they both have that never-die gun slinging mentality and it works more than it hurts.
Anyway both those guys can take you all the way -- without needing to just be game managers for a dominant defense, like Roeth.
I suspect this will resolve itself. Their DLine had 2 NFL players on it. Dadi is already a big name, while Maddy gets a 2nd crack at his senior season thanks to a medical redshirt after playing us last year. And great things are expected of Ekanem.
Throw in that kind of DL quality and lining up how they do with 5 guys directly over 5 OL... it's going to wear on the interior line, which is more used to combo and team blocking than going 1v1 all game long against that kind of quality.
There isn't a single team on the schedule that can replicate that, maybe Bama if we face them in post season? But I doubt Kirby reconfigures his entire D just to copy VTech... thankfully. It's a hard nut to crack.
I think that's also the underlying reason why he started -- VTech got an awful lot of penetration last year and this year... and clearly Cardale deals with that better. With all the penetration, they didn't get a single sack... just couldn't bring him down.
I think it also affected his completion% / QBR / pretty numbers ... Cardale kept things alive but hard to be accurate shrugging all those big bodies off. If I had any skill as an artist, I'd make a drawing of him throwing off his back foot with defenders draped all over. That's the image which sums up this game to me.
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