College football sleuths theorize which Tennessee QB tossed 'blurred' INT
While it's easy to post a highlight of a star quarterback and receiver connecting on a deep touchdown during a scrimmage, posting defensive highlights can be a bit trickier. After all, how do you show off a nice defensive play without making the offense look bad?
I don't know the answer to that question, but I do know that the Tennessee Volunteers found the funniest possible solution: If you post a video of a quarterback throwing an interception, just blur the quarterback so nobody knows who did it.
And that's exactly what they did on Monday when they highlighted an interception from Colorado transfer defensive back Colton Hood.
Tennessee's decision to blur the offending quarterback was especially noteworthy given the three-way quarterback competition the Vols are currently holding between Joey Aguilar, Jake Merklinger and George MacIntyre after Nico Iamaleava's post-spring departure.
And naturally, sleuthy college football fans immediately set off trying to identify which of the three contenders tossed the interception.
So far, it seems no one has been able to arrive at a definitive answer, though On3's JD PicKell did offer an interesting theory: What if it wasn't thrown by a quarterback at all, but rather a graduate assistant or a different player in a non-contact jersey?
Of course, fans immediately poked holes in that thesis by questioning why the Vols would have felt the need to blur the elusive passer if it wasn't one of the three players vying for the starting job. Also, as Dawgs Central's Graham Coffey points out, why not just edit the clip down to not include the quarterback?
We may never truly get to the bottom of BlurGate, but Tennessee will hope that whoever ultimately wins the job this fall doesn't make a habit of giving the ball to the other team like this.
This article originally appeared on For The Win: Tennessee Volunteers: Sleuths theorize which QB threw blurred INT
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