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have to agree with both of you

I think Barkley is better right now. But I think Wilson’s arm strength is better than Barkley’s. I think he has plenty of enough arm to make it into the NFL.

Don't know. When they had Mallet you saw a lot more long passes 30+ yards down field. Mallet leaves, Wilson takes over, and it is much more dink and dunk and crossing routes.

It was definitely more dink and dunk but Mallets arm strength is special and on like a Russell and Stafford level. There is a lot of D and D in college football now, regardless of Offense.
If I had to rank them for next year

1.Barkley
2.Bray(potential)
3.Wilson
4.Jones

I'm not completely sure and just going by the eye test, but Mallett had a way stronger arm than Wilson's and probably stronger than Stafford's. Again could be wrong but Mallett just threw darts like I haven't seen in a while.

True, but if you watch what Petrino did with Wilson, he changed the whole passing game. He had the same stud receivers (minus a great TE) so if anything it should have supported at least testing down field a little bit more than they did. The farthest Wilson targeted a receiver was 20 to 25 yards (not counting hail marys etc). The only reason's I have for doing this are
1. Wilson lacks arm strength
2. The O-line was good enough to protect for a down field passing game
3. Mitchell (who was competing with Wilson for the starting job) has a week arm and Petrino wanted both players to be able to run the offense.

It’s definitely stronger than Wilson, but I was just making the point that you can’t knock him when comparing the two because Mallets arm strength is special. If Barkley has an average arm by NFL standards then IMO Wilson arm is slightly above average.

Well Wilson is better under pressure than Mallett was by far. That makes up for his lack of arm strength compared to Mallett's especially when it comes to his pro potential.

Idk, it seemed to me that he can put more zip on the ball, and can fit it into tight windows better than Barkley, although Barkley is a guy who likes to put a lot of touch on his passes which can sometimes make his arm look weaker than it really is. You have obviously seen more ARK then I but it did seem to me like he had a good deep ball, and Petrino could have been holding him back because it was his first year starting. I disagree with you on the O-line part. By SEC standards they got manhandled by LSU and BAMA. Two great fronts but it didn’t seem like he had time to throw both of those games. Still a lot of time till the 13 draft but I definitely think Wilson can close the gap between him and Barkley.

Who is the chick in your sig?

False correlation. Still a bad trade.

Everyone got manhandled by Bama and LSU's defense. That wasn't something to be ashamed of last year.