Lighting farts would be more entertaining than continueing this debate. Six months after it started we are still in the same place.
I just believe RP has too much talent to just waste on the bench again this year. LSU's O tends to be a little predictable with jimbo calling the plays so I think RP could mix it up a little bit with his quickness he brings to qb. You can sit in film rooms and watch from the sidelines to be more prepared to play, but you dont get better without actually getting game experience. Obviously I am a big fan of this guy and just want to see him on the field atleast 2 plays a game.
Those aren't the only 2 ways to put your team in a very unfavorable position. The bottom line is that our very speedy recieving corp tremendously underachieved last year, and at a time when we needed it the most (when our RB's were nearly all hurt). Now that is a two-way street, of course. But it doesn't take much football knowledge to know the difference between a catchable ball and an uncatchable one. It also doesn't take a genius to spot very bad tendencies. 'Key words' are immaterial. The only key is the performance of the offense. At any rate, comparing these two is a foolish task. The two QB's are polar opposites. Let's just hope the results aren't.
This discussion would not even take place, IF the receivers would not have dropped so many catchable balls last year. There were so many dropped passes that ended drives it was sad. Once the receivers that everyone says are so talented start catching the ball. Then JR lights up the stats and the scoreboard shows it.
A lot of people put blame on JaMarcus for the dropped balls. Even though some of the balls were poorly thrown, most of them were not. And his passes aren't too hard to catch. A WR's job is to catch the ball, it was their failing last year with the dropped balls, not JaMarcus's.
When a ball hits you in the hands or body, that is no ones fault but your own. Talented recievers should be able to catch 'poorly thrown' balls if they're close. The problem is, these guys try too much to catch with their bodies, rather than their hands.
I think w ewill see a much improved passing attack no matter who wins the job. JR isn't near as bad as his detractors think he is, Flynn is not all world based on one solid performance. They're both very capable of being very good college QB's though and the receivers now have 2 and 3 years experience under their belts. I look for everything to come to together and for us to have an offensive explosion and be very balanced as well, with the new passing game actually taking pressure off of the oline and running game.
See Florida, 2004. Besides, look at Mauck's statistics against the top teams in 2003. He had 28 and 14, but those stats were padded bigtime against the likes of Louisiana Tech, Western Illinois, and Arizona. He wasn't exactly a mistake-free QB against competition.
