If Nuss wasn’t a turnover machine would he be the starting QB?

It's sort of a big deal

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It's his style of play that's preventing him from being the starter. He has shown (for the most part) to be incapable of consistently controlling an offense and leading them to scoring drives.

He very rarely takes a checkdown or throws the ball away. He relies far too much on 50/50 balls, and not Joe Burrow 50/50 balls where the quarterback and receiver have great chemistry and an understanding of where one another will be when the play breaks down. Nuss just launches.

The turnovers are a byproduct of that style of play.

ETA: this post wasn't meant to bash Nuss. This kind of quarterback can win you any game you put him in. He can also lose you games you shouldn't lose (see Arkansas last year).

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All of this.

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Maybe an entire offseason as a starter changes that, but who knows if he'll ever get that shot.

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Yep. This is the crazy part. Jd has had what, going on 5 years and he’s still avg at best. Time to move on

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he’s still avg at best

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Gets the team to the SECCG in his first season here. He's average.



Are some of y'all expecting the next coming of Joe Burrow? The guy took some major hits, did what he could do to win games and along with his teammates, who played as a team, (I know that's a crazy concept for some of you to grasp) won games after we were picked to be fifth in the west. But instead, you rip him because he's not doing what you want.

Sound like a bunch of wet blankets.


No way he and Nuss could improve right? Can't pull for both QBs who are on the same team, right? I have no idea why some of you have to try to tear down a player who was voted by his teammates as the team MVP for the season. I just don't get it.

I'm not saying the kid doesn't have shortcomings and I'm not saying there isn't room to improve but the hate this kid gets on this board is ridiculous.

Hard to say. We don’t see them in practice, I would be inclined to say no, but I really can only go off of the limited games I’ve seen him.

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He relies far too much on 50/50 balls, and not Joe Burrow 50/50 balls where the quarterback and receiver have great chemistry

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Burrow never threw 50/50 balls. He would throw balls to the far side of his receiver, and the receiver had two advantages: one was the position of the ball; and the second was that the DB was not looking back and did not know the ball was thrown. Those are NOT 50/50 balls.

Neither are the bad throws Nuss makes, on which the DB has a much better chance than the WR.

Omg. What’s with this obsession with a backup? It’s forcing me to think some of this speculation about “other factors “ has to be taken seriously.
Short answer: if your aunt had nuts, she’d be your uncle.

I have no idea why some of you have to try to tear down a player who was voted by his teammates as the team MVP for the season. I just don't get it.

I’m starting to get an idea and it ain’t pretty.

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Are turnovers the only thing keeping him from starting?

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I think it is troubling enough that it gives you pause. his turnover numbers are higher than the scores accounted for. That's a losing recipe.

A couple of arguments can be made. One is those numbers are based on a small enough sample size, but that can be countered with the argument many of his reps were against inferior opponents and so were many of his turnovers. A second argument being he took a lot of reps with backup players but I am not sure that he did or if that was as much of a downgrade as people may imply because many (maybe most) of those were rotational players who could easily have technically been starters and many times there were still starters in.

Who will start next year will be determined by who makes the greatest strides in the offseason. That is not always easy to determine simply in practice. It could very well be Nuss. Only time will tell.