Saban QB quote from 2003

In the meantime we will just lose games to teams that have QBs that can win games. Oh and also lose the games that our QB helps us lose with his mistakes.

Sweet

This was not meant as support for our current situation, but rather a realistic look at our QB/team future. No question that our QB play has been poor, but so has other aspects of our offense.

Do you really think nick Saban is the only coach to say that?


Alabama has won two close games this year bc of a play or two Simms made.
You need a qb that will win the game for you to be better than a decent team.

LSU doesn't have that.

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"We don't need him to win the game, we just need him to NOT lose the game."

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If your QB does not have the ability to progress thru his reads, and if the coaches don't trust him to throw on 1st or 2nd down, then he IS LOSING the game for you.

It is narrow minded to credit a close win (or loss) to one player. Those games are full of "what ifs." A team/company/etc. is not ready to be a "championship" team until every aspect/part of that team is of "championship" caliber.

In 2003, we threw it for 3,200+ yards and ran it for 2,600 even (2,998 not including losses).

Even if he's busy "not losing" the game, he still has to make plays within the course of the game. Based on the productivity of that offense in the year he made that statement, it was expected that the LSU QB make more non-losing plays in the passing game than the LSU running game did since we threw it for more than we ran it.

Great analysis Bro.

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Remember what Saban said about our QB in 2003, "We don't need him to win the game, we just need him to NOT lose the game."

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Pretty funny, b/c Mauck was not a game manager at all. He turned the ball over a ton and shite the bed against the top 25, especially Ole Miss and OU. He was far closer to the side of gun slinger than what Saban described.

He was clutch though

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Even if he's busy "not losing" the game, he still has to make plays within the course of the game. Based on the productivity of that offense in the year he made that statement, it was expected that the LSU QB make more non-losing plays in the passing game than the LSU running game did since we threw it for more than we ran it.

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I approve of this message

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I think we sometimes make too much of the QB position

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I'm a supporter of Les generally, but our QB position is a disaster. I don' think anyone here expects an NFL caliber QB every year, but we need to field a QB worthy of getting first downs when the running game is not working. We have a QB development problem. Cam is not earning his money and Miles needs to hold him accountable.

I think our QB position looks like a disaster as well and AJ must accept some responsibility. But it may be a little unfair to lay all of the blame on one athlete/position.