Socapro your theory is lacking and is unfair cause you are comparing quow first leg with jarrin second leg. The first leg is always the slowest leg. Your argument lacks cause you state replace quow. If that is the case your logic of not putting jarrin on first indicates to me that he cant run the first leg. So why not put quow on second and jarrin first and then compare Times. If you bringing stats in an argument at least be fair and match like with like. Relay beast lets examine his split at world relays final and pan am games what were those split. As to referring to him as a relay beast and yet quow who for years have been Mr dependable you ignore his contribution. Are we sometimes so blinded that we look at things from a skewed point of view.
You started off your argument with a wrong assumption meaning that the rest of your argument is flawed.
I never compared Quow's first leg with Solomon's 2nd leg. I compared Quow's 1st leg with that of the other competitors on first leg to assess that he ran a weak 1st leg in the 4x4 Heats. Quow however improved in the 4x4 Final in regards to his performance in lane 4 on the 1st leg as compared to the other competitors.
If you view video of the 4x4 Heats you would see that Quow in lane 2 handed off the baton to Solomon in almost last place and that Solomon managed to move us up to 6th place during his 2nd leg while Lendore moved us up to 3rd place during his brilliant 3rd leg. Lalonde Gordon then moved us from 3rd to 2nd spot on the final leg pipping Javon Francis at the finish line to qualify us for a decent lane in the 4x4 Final.
Apparently after the 4x4 Heats Quow blamed his weak lead-off leg on his bad lane draw (in lane 2) which has some validity as most athletes who ran in the Bird's Nest stadium have run below their best from lane 2 including our own Machel Cedenio in the 400m final.
USA 2:58.13 Q, TTO Q, JAM Q, Men's 4x400m Heat 2 World Champs 2015https://www.youtube.com/v/zhrZiYnzkSMLegs assessment: Weak 1st leg from Quow, he lost ground with most of the other teams; Decent 2nd leg from Solomon; Brilliant 3rd leg from Lendore; Strong 4th leg from Gordon.
I did say I was satisfied with the performances of the guys on all legs in the 4x4 final but based upon performances in the 4x4 Heats I would personally have given Solomon the nod to run the 2nd leg again in the 4x4 Final based upon his freshness and his performance in the 4x4 heats and also taking into account the fact that Quow might have been feeling the effects of running in the individual 400m flat and almost equalling his PB in the Heats.
I believe a TTO 4x4 relay team in the final with personnel and legs in the following order could have been faster and could have ran the USA much closer for the gold medal:-
1st leg Lalonde Gordon; 2nd leg Jarrin Solomon; 3rd leg Machel Cedenio; 4th leg Deon Lendore.
Remember picking the best 4x4 relay team for the job should be based on freshness and most recent performances and who can do the most reliable job on the day rather than just on name and reputation.
A fresh Renny Quow is interchangeable with a fresh Jarrin Solomon in regards to running in the 4x4 Final.
Regardless I am satisfied with our 4x4 relay team's performance for silver medal especially seeing that we set a new national record. I think next year in Rio if all our top quarter-milers are fresh enough and are run in the right order to their individual strengths in the final that we can run a 2:56.xx and set a new national record which is around the time we will need to run to beat the USA, Bahamas and JA and win Olympic gold.
I think USA, Bahamas and JA will all be stronger next year so our TTO team will also need to be quicker and stronger if wish to stay ahead of the pack. It's a pity there are no World Relays next year so our TTO 4x4 relay team can assess its position before Rio but hopefully we will send a national team to Penn Relays 2016 so we can see how we are gearing up and how much work we need to do in preparation for winning Men's 4x4 relay gold in Rio.
PS: Btw I never argued anywhere that Quow has not been reliable for us in the 4x4 relay over the years but the same also applies to Solomon which is why I refer to him as a relay beast. A relay beast has a reputation of performing better in the relay than they would typically do in the individual event. They become transformed with a baton in their hand.