I watched everything on him from OU to SC and he actually seemed to regress. You think he didn't have a QB coach at both his stops? People say he didn't have any help @ SC but he had Leggett to bail him out many times
Of course he had a QB coach. What I'm talking about is his lack of an OL, much like here (actually that should have prepared him for what happened with us :D )
Watch how much he had to run to get away from the opposing D. Somewhere on here is a vid of all 5 members of the OL getting knocked on their @$$ simultaneously. 5 guys laid out on the ground and Rattler running for his life. Funny as the keystone cops.
Yes, Leggett gave him a valid target to throw to and much (all?) of that was unscripted broken play throws. Those 2 guys developed some chemistry and Rattler could find him on the run.
He didn't regress here. He had superior D talent after him so his natural abilities couldn't show as well as they did in college. And here it was almost impossible for him to put into play what he was learning due to our horrible injury mess.
But his formative years should have been at SC and they weren't. Couldn't be. Too young at his earlier stops for him to physically learn as much as he needed. That's common. We most often see college QBs really begin to show out or mature in their Jr./Sr. seasons. That was when he was at SC.