KNOXVILLE – Josh Dobbs tossed four touchdown passes in Tennessee’s win against Florida, but he didn’t see the ending to those scoring plays.
On each of those throws Dobbs was hit shortly after he threw, and he watched a couple of them from the ground.
“It was more just hearing the crowd’s reaction after the play,” Dobbs recalled on Tuesday.
Tennessee quarterback Joshua Dobbs (11) fires a pass. The Florida Gators visited the Tennessee Volunteers in a important SEC football contest at Neyland Stadium on September 24, 2016.“When you’re a quarterback in the pocket, you have high vision and you’re not really looking at the rush. You see someone coming open, you kind of feel the rush, but you feel like you can get it on them and throw it before you get hit.”
Though he’s never been labeled a pocket passer, Dobbs played like one against the Gators, repeatedly hanging in the pocket long enough to deliver a quartet of touchdown passes to guide Tennessee’s remarkable comeback.