re: The thing nobody seems to get about Daniels...

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We averaged around 8 yards per play on the handful of zone reads we ran last night.

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You conspicuously forgot the one he put on the ground by not making the read in time and handed to State in scoring position. Read option should be bread and butter for him along with short throws out of the backfield, but he’s not consistently good at any of them yet. Until he develops consistency with SOMETHING, it’s going to be hard to call plays to his supposed strengths.

All this said, I do credit Denbrock for going back to the zone read later in the game rather than completely abandoning it.

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The issue has not been poor play design or poor play calling, it has been the inability of our quarterback(s) to see what is available and deliver the ball to the receivers.

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Hammer meets nail. Spot on.

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He’s got two years to get it.

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He won’t be here that long even if he could be. He already has a high draft grade just based on athleticism. And if he does hang around, I’m betting Howard beats him out for the job.

I agree, he shows when you put the whole offense on his plate and try to rely on his pre and post snap reads to recognize where pressure is coming from and ask him to process it all to deliver the ball, he struggles. He looks good in hurry up offense because the reads are simple, roll outs can be helpful because it simplifies it also but at the same time totally limits your offense. My observations aren’t to try to justify another QB, he’s the best option, it’s to say if he could somehow correct his deficiencies, this team could pick up a couple more wins.

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I think if he comes back next year, then we have a chance to have something close to Burrow.

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We are going to be waiting for the next Joe Burrow for the rest of our lives. Jaden Daniels ain't it.

Kid is playing hard and he’s made some big boy plays on 3rd down and in clutch situations.

I hope the passing game improves in terms of his reads downfield.

He looks like a good leader

It would be amazing to see a QB develop at LSU and not bc they had minimum classes online and teach themselves a la Met and Borrow

Maybe conspicuous to you but the point is we’re way above average in one area and bottom 3 in the other even with a large bump from Southern. Vs FSU and State we’re averaging 5.7 yards per pass attempt which is abysmal.

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Zak Hill was Daniels' OC in 2020 and 2021.

He's out of work this year. Nobody wanted him.

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He had all that ncaa stuff going on. I'm sure he could've found a job.

You’re right over the target but if you make teams respect him with a designed running attack using the WRs, the backs and the short passes you’ll bring extra defenders up and get those 1 on 1s giving you a chance to throw those passes to areas he’s more comfortable with instead of having safeties back there funneling those passes to places he isn’t effective.