If there’s one number we all seem to associate with Notre Dame Fighting Irish quarterback Brandon Wimbush, it’s 49.5.
Wimbush, a rising senior, completed less than half of his passes for the Irish in 2017. When I think of that statistic, this one play — above all others — comes to mind:
The Irish are in the midst of being depantsed by the Miami-Florida Hurricanes, and Wimbush looks like he forgot how to throw.
I began to wonder why I remembered every bad throw, instead of bullets like this:
If this sounds familiar, it may not surprise you that there are both physiological and psychological reasons for why you and I both remember what went wrong more vividly than what went right.