Ed Orgeron Provides An Update On Myles Brennan & The Starting QB Situation

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Q. We hear there's a chance that Myles might return this week. Can you update us on that? One other thing. Do you think it was necessary to make a renewed commitment to the running game based on what you did last week?

ED ORGERON: Night and day. Night and day difference. We have to run the football, especially on first down. I thought our offensive line had their best game. That helped pave the way for TJ's success. We couldn't put it all on his shoulders. Myles is going to practice a little bit today. Jack is going to get him accelerated throughout the week. We're going to see. I don't know yet if he's going to play. He may play. It all depends how practice goes this week. We're only going to do about 25% with him today, see what he can do, feel it. Probably going to be sore. If he can't play, obviously TJ has done a great job for us. Max is going to do a great job. I'm not putting him in unless he's 100% ready.

Q. Is Finley kind of there for this week if Myles can't go? Secondly, third downs, seems like you guys made those adjustments. What kind of did you see that helped you guys fix that the most?

ED ORGERON: They played a lot of man coverage for us. Coach Linehan had a great plan. I thought TJ did a tremendous job of delivering the football on time. I told y'all he has a cannon for an arm. I was so pleased with TJ's poise. He looked like a veteran out there. I think that's what made the difference in the football game. We're going to go ahead and practice Myles today, see what he can do. Him and TJ are going to share reps, and Max. We're going to make a decision on a daily basis who runs the team. Depends on Myles' health. If Myles is healthy, he's our first team quarterback, but I'm not putting him in unless he's 100%.

Q. Along the lines of the offensive front. 54 rushes this past week. Is that something that if TJ has to go again this week, that's something you want to use to relax him there, open up the run game?

ED ORGERON: Yeah. Most of those runs were RPO. The good thing about TJ, he's 6'6". He sees it really easy, man. He can see that slant behind him. It's all built in.

If they give us a box where we can run the football, we want to run the football. We have to. Going into the season, I thought the backs were going to be the strength of our offense.

Q. You rattled off a lot of positives you saw from TJ after the game Saturday. When you looked at film Sunday, you saw the effort he gave on the interception, helped get that guy down, that maybe saved a touchdown. I don't know if it's something you can coach that a kid can have that kind of effort after a bad play.

ED ORGERON: Thanks for mentioning that. He has some fire in him. He was fired up. He was on the sideline, Let's go. Vocal leader. A lot of things that Joe did, to be honest with you. He showed some toughness. I have to work on his tackling a little bit. Kind of a shoulder tackle. I love his effort. TJ came alive, man. It was his night. He'd been confident all week. He's been confident since he came here. Not cocky, but confident. We love that about him.

Q. The knock on LSU for so long was that they couldn't develop quarterbacks. Was it really more a matter of running what they run in high school? You talked about the seven-on-seven. Is that why we're seeing freshmen have success across the country and at LSU?

ED ORGERON: No question. Running a spread offense. That's the way to go. It's here to stay. It's basketball on grass. Put athletes in space, let them make plays, let the quarterback make decisions, make the right reads. The thing that helps TJ is his length. Being 6'6", he sees over all those linemen, he has a cannon for an arm. He lost some weight. He has quick feet. He studies football all the time. He's a football junky.

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