Steadman Shealy who ran the Alabama national championship wishbone back around 1979 was a member of our church.
The year before he won the national title, he was recovering from knee surgery. He mentioned that they were working on having a much better passing game. Shealy was not a real passing QB but he learned to be a pretty good one.
The kicker was that a wishbone quarterback never had to deal with a zone pass defense, i.e. that’s what the wishbone ground game was for. That’s the reason you see all those 80 and 90 year old quarterbacks in the NFL i.e. it takes em that long to learn to throw against pro zones. The first NFL team which ever went to the Tide’s version of the wishbone wouldn’t NEED geriatric quarterbacks.