Yep memory is off
, winning tends to make that happen. As the stats show you.
Especially for Jensen, there were several times, especially starting second halves where he could not throw at all. Like pitching into the dirt type stuff. Then vigs would call some qb runs to get him “into” the game, then passing would sometimes come around a bit, other times not so much and it became a passing game of screens, etc. Do you remember the first two championship seasons? Where the D had to be so lights out so many times because o couldn’t get going? Or would throw a pick 6 or two in a playoff game? Anyway older memory tends toward the last thing you saw, like domination offense in Jensen senior 2013 season. Also point being, Jensen had times of being way more “off” than Stick and Wentz.
Wentz only played about 1.5 years, had up and down games too. Times when couldn’t move the offense. His bit of recklessness in fumbling, etc was a different kind of “off” that Jensen and so far Stick have been better at avoiding. Heck, his senior year he was what 4-2 as a starter? While Stick ended up 9-0 or something that same year.
Any of these guys playing hurt affects them, it is as certainly obvious in hindsight last year as Stick was on fire the first part of the season throwing it all over the field, then the offense changed to be run based more, he got hurt and we continued to attempt to run and be vanilla the rest of the year.
The Wentz easy example is hurt in EW game and hurt is SD game. Both times had several chances to end the game with the offense and didn’t get it done.
Jensen don’t remember injuries back that far, but it seems he was always “nicked up.”