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You've lost me here by pmcdnd96

I started by posting that I thought Jones and Book were of similar raw athletic ability and talent and that I thought Jones' superior performance on the field was due to playing in a better system and receiving better coaching

You responded that Book never would have started over Jones

I responded that you may well be right, but that the two quarterbacks were rated similarly coming into college, but that one received coaching from Alabama coaches for four years.

You responded that you don't know what their rankings have to do with anything.

Their rankings (which are imperfect, but as good of an approximation of original raw talent as we have) have everything to do with my point. It's not like Mac Jones was looked at as some "can't miss" prospect coming out of high school and Ian Book was some walk-on who had never played the game before; they were fairly comparably thought of coming in. Yet Jones ended up in the top three of the Heisman voting. I think that speaks volumes about the level of coaching he received and the system he played in at Alabama.