LSU hasn't been playing TBs at the QB position. Nonsense post! Anyway, time for me to abandon this dead end thread. Patterson is probably going to Ole Miss as most of us predicted. I'm going to keep up with LSU QBs committed and eventually signed. The Patterson cultists can claim he is better than Peyton Manning in his prime for all I care. They have 0 proof of his college ability since he hasn't even played his SR season in HS yet. Just more hype and negatiger stuff! Keep throwing temper tantrams and whining like 9 year olds. It doesn't change things 1 iota and none of the Patterson vs Franks comparisons is based on anything other than hype.
They sure as hell haven't been playing quarterbacks. Dual Threat should be defined as "dude can run but can't throw"
Stupid post. But hey, you aren't arguing with me. I suggest you send your comments to the recruiting services who put players in positions like QB, RB, WRer. Your beef is with them....none of us here do the services ratings to me knowledge. Oh, and one more thing...the passing game is a lot more than QB. You apparently don't know that any more than Shane does,.
Guess not. Ranking near the bottom of the SEC and NCAA in passing statistics year In and year out tell a different story though. There are many factors that go along with passing statistics, most importantly a quarterback who can actually complete passes. But hey, if you wanna sit back with your blinders on and make excuse after excuse after excuse like I did for so many years about how it's gonna get better, and this that and the other, be my guest.
First, LSU is a running team which means less passing and fewer possessions than many other teams, so LSU's goal is NOT to be an offensive juggernaut in stats. Second, for those who continually bring up national offensive rankings, that is naive. You know that Mountain West teams are in there right....Conference USA teams, etc. To compare LSU with the likes of Tulane and Louisiana Tech is laughable....they don't play the same opponents. Also, I will point out that Jennings the last 3 games completed 55% of his passes and outplayed the ND QBs for example in the bowl game. That is not my opinion...his QB rating was above the ND QBs rating for the game.
To even use QB and LSU, in the same sentence, over the last 10 years, with one exception, is a joke. We have not even had good runners at QB. Pedestrians at best, and our record shows it and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Recruiting all the great runners and receivers is great, but with no one to throw the ball, we are looking at battling for third or fourth place in the west and the annual trip to the "Who Gives a Flip Bowl." There is a reason running teams are out of vogue, and it ain't the game day uniforms. Uni-dimensional comes to mind. Get real.
Trust me kemosloppy I know LSU is a running team, they do it so well they can't throw. Also....If you are going to rattle off that national statistics shouldn't count because Tulane and Hawaii are in there, I'm gonna say you can't say Jennings is good because he was decent against Texas A&M's shitty defense. So was Jordan Jefferson. So was every quarterback that played against them. That's like bragging you fucked the town whore. LSU is a running team, but LSU will never win another championship unless they get more out of the quarterback position. You can run 75 percent all you want but at some point you are going to have to play a team where that shit just ain't gonna cut it. I'm not even clamoring for 300 yards and 3 TD's a game. Fuck the bar has been set so damn low that I'd gladly take 200 yards a game with a 59 percent completion percentage and 1 TD a game. Also, Arkansas shut Jennings out. Ouch. They hadn't won an SEC game in 17 straight and they beat us LSU like an NFL player's wife. LSU has no passing game. Since 2005 the only time LSU's passing game has been effective has been (and this may come as a shock to you) when LSU puts a pocket passer in the game. Russell, Flynn, Mettenberger, Lee. All more effective than JJ, Jennings, and Harris, with the exception of Lee and Jefferson who had eerily similar stats. I just want to see LSU be able to depend on the passing game when it's needed. That isn't too much to ask for is it? And in my opinion, Jennings, Harris, Franks, and every other "dual threat" qb we stick back there are going to fail in the passing game, just like their "dual threat" predecessors did.
And you think this is a good thing? Well, in the SEC, Jennings was better than only Driskel. Sooooo, there is that. I guess we should be happy or something. Thats awesome Jennings had a better QBR than a backup QB from ND. Really, it is. meanwhile,
Jennings isn't a dual threat QB. However looking back at QB recruiting around the country the past 15 years it appears that around 95% of the pro style qb's don't pan out and about 85% of the dual threat QB's don't pan out. QB recruiting is probably the most hit & miss of the skill positions. A boatload of highly ranked qb's didn't do squat in cfb. It almost seems like the lower tier schools have an advantage by getting the leftovers, who appear to be better QB's down the road.
Once again, the obvious correlation as to why supposedly the lower tier schools appear to have better QBs down the road...they play lesser competition for almost their entire schedule. Take Gunner Kiel for example at Cincinnati....had a better season than he did in the bowl game. Why? Because a lot of his regular season games were vs the likes of Tulane, Toledo, Miami-OH, Memphis, SMU, Connecticut, Temple, Houston, etc. Who did he play in the bowl game where he completed only 50% of his passes and had 2 INTs? Oh yeah, Virginia Tech...'nuff said.
