Taylor Cornelius

Clint Schell, J.W. Walsh.

I mean, even Corndog, right, Taylor Cornelius, they all had to learn to perfect that play, that route, that throw before they were ever going to get an overwhelming amount of opportunities.

So if I'm Eric Morris, and we do know that he has rightfully so praised Mike Gundy for the foundation and the success that he built at Oklahoma State for such a long time, so he just needs to dig back into the film room I mean, heck, he played at Tech.

He remembers the same thing.

He's a dog.

But you can't dog and ball when you have Taylor Cornelius throwing you the ball.

Shout out Taylor Cornelius though.

I bet Ottawa would take Taylor Cornelius right now.

Probably not actually.

I don't mind Harrison Frost.

So I did three years as a spotter, and this is my second year as the PA announcer.

So when I started spotting, it was Trevor Harris for one season and then Taylor Cornelius.

And it would be, all right, Harris drops back, throws to Ellingson.

And it's picked off and a touchdown for every other team.

We got spoiled for a long time, brother man.

We grew up getting to watch Zach Robinson and then Brandon Whedon, and then you got to see Clint Shelf and J.W. Walsh and Mason Rudolph and Taylor Cornelius and Alan Bowman.

He did perform very adequately, admirably, so much so that I gave him too much crap.

And now we look back at all of it with a more bigger realization and understanding that, yeah, Alan Bowman's probably pretty darn good.

And if you had Alan Bowman this previous season, we probably don't go 1-11.

But after the year before where we only win a few ballgames, that was the worst experience we've had as Oklahoma State fans in almost two decades.

So in our eyes at that time, Alan Bowman didn't look like he was going to be a Taylor Cornelius or a Mason Rudolph or Brandon Whedon or Clint Shelf or Zach Robinson.

But maybe the supporting cast became a little dicey.

Think about where Edmonton w- And this is a totally random note for you guys, but I was looking at Chad Kelly's interception total, where he is at this year, and I, I, I started doing the work to go back and say, "Okay, if he throws, like, his eighteenth interception, nineteenth interception at some point, whether it's this weekend or next," it's like, if that happens, who is the last quarterback in the CFL to go past whatever number Chad Kelly is at, at eighteen or nineteen or twenty? What's the highest over the last decade, right? By the way, it's Darian Durant, I think, back in, like, two thousand and thirteen had twenty-two interceptions or something.

Um, but w- there was one name that jumped out to me that really reminded me of how far Edmonton football has come because the highest total in a season as I was going back year over year over year looking at the highest interception total was Taylor Cornelius.

Cornelius.

And obviously made famous by, oh, what is he doing? Uh, but-

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He pulled off.

[laughing] Uh, but I, I saw Taylor Cornelius's name, and it was like a lightning bolt went through my chest.

I was like, "Oh, my God, that's what Edmonton football used to be.

I love, I'm just calling that the big hill play from now on.

Because that one on Taylor Cornelius lives in my brain forever.

It's not often you see a guy stop dead in his tracks on a hit.

But on both of those, on two very different sized humans, Tanner Cadwallader stopped a dude dead in his tracks.

And that's what took it so long.

And you could argue, too, the Taylor Cornelius experiment.

Even Chris Jones, and I've said this on record again, a great defensive mind was wearing way too many hats.

That was an issue.