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re: Why is the QB position so hard to master?
Posted on 9/3/14 at 9:10 am to TenTex
Posted on 9/3/14 at 9:10 am to TenTex
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He did not have the arm of JR or Mett, but he knew how to manage the game which brought a NC.
Look...I really like/d Matt Flynn...but would this myth please die already?
Flynn presided over an offense that was worse than the previous year's. There are reasons outside of his own doing, of course...namely losing his top two receivers. On the other hand, he benefited from an actual running game which we did not have the year before.
But in terms of winning the championship, where he really benefited was helming the LSU team in a year where a two loss team could miraculously make it to the NCG. Other than having played well as the QB when LSU destroyed VT earlier in the year, the biggest reason LSU got to play for the title were do to games that LSU did not even play in on Championship Weekend. Twice while the #1 team in the country a Matt Flynn lead LSU team lost to pretty mediocre teams...once at home with what felt like everything on the line. That game ended, literally, with a pick he threw. Did anyone leave Tiger Stadium that night feeling great about how awesomely Matt Flynn had lead LSU essentially knowing LSU was now out of the title hunt?
He was hurt the next week as Periloux guided the team in Atlanta.
I hate pointing this stuff out...I really do. But I REALLY hate revisionism. Matt Flynn was a solid QB on a really good team that got lucky to have played in a season when their 2 losses were not enough to bump them from the NCG and they/he took advantage of that...and for that I'll forever ne grateful as an LSU fan.
But pretending LSU won the NC in 2007 because of some miraculous QB mojo responsible to Flynn is crazy talk.
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Posted on 9/3/14 at 9:36 am to GeauxTigerTM
1. "But pretending LSU won the NC in 2007 because of some miraculous QB mojo responsible to Flynn is crazy talk."
Flynn played well at QB in 2007, but I agree with the foregoing statement.
2. "Flynn presided over an offense that was worse than the previous year's."
The foregoing statement is so demonstrably untrue as to be silly, and I believe represents an overeactive revisionism to #1. The offense in 2007 was statistically the best in school history and it DAMN SURE scored points consistently, which is something the 2006 offense, for all its talent, did not do. 3 points against Auburn, 13 (or was it just 10?) against Florida. No Flynn-led team EVER scored fewer than 27 points in regulation (I am limiting to reg time so as not to give credit for OT numbers that get skewed; the SECCG, in which LSU scored only 14 offensive points, had RP at the helm for an injured Flynn). For whatever reason (maybe the first year of Crowton as OC?), the 2007 offense was a better, more consistent and productive offense than the more talented 2006 O.
Flynn played well at QB in 2007, but I agree with the foregoing statement.
2. "Flynn presided over an offense that was worse than the previous year's."
The foregoing statement is so demonstrably untrue as to be silly, and I believe represents an overeactive revisionism to #1. The offense in 2007 was statistically the best in school history and it DAMN SURE scored points consistently, which is something the 2006 offense, for all its talent, did not do. 3 points against Auburn, 13 (or was it just 10?) against Florida. No Flynn-led team EVER scored fewer than 27 points in regulation (I am limiting to reg time so as not to give credit for OT numbers that get skewed; the SECCG, in which LSU scored only 14 offensive points, had RP at the helm for an injured Flynn). For whatever reason (maybe the first year of Crowton as OC?), the 2007 offense was a better, more consistent and productive offense than the more talented 2006 O.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 7:02 am to GeauxTigerTM
bullshite. While I agree Flynn was not JM in college, that offense set records for points and yards. The offense the year before disappeared against Auburn and Florida. People have such short memories.
This post was edited on 9/4/14 at 7:03 am
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