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re: Connor O’Gara from Saturday Down South’s new article
Posted on 12/11/23 at 8:49 am to dallastiger55
Posted on 12/11/23 at 8:49 am to dallastiger55
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3. 2023 Jayden Daniels
You’re gonna tell me that I’m being a prisoner of the moment. Fine. I’m gonna tell you to look beyond the 3 losses, wherein LSU’s defense allowed at least 42 points, and look at just how remarkable Daniels was. He currently has the best quarterback rating ever for an FBS player (208), he hit 50 touchdowns in just 12 games and he averaged more total yards/play (10.7) than any player in the Playoff era. Only 4 Power 5 players have ever had 40 touchdown passes and 5 interceptions or fewer in a season, and Daniels (along with Bo Nix) is set to join that club. Mind you, he’s a 1,000-yard rusher who is No. 2 in the SEC in that department. None of those other guys hit 700 pre-Heisman rushing yards.
If you want to find a negative for Daniels, it’s that he lost the 2 biggest games on his schedule. Jordan Travis indeed outplayed him in the second half of the season opener in Orlando, but Daniels “losing to Alabama” was also the byproduct of him taking a violent hit and getting knocked out of the game in the 4th quarter. He’s worthy of being on the shortlist for best Heisman winners of the Playoff era.
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Posted on 12/11/23 at 8:50 am to LSUDVM1999
The Legend:
1. 2019 Joe Burrow
Where should we start? How about the fact that in 13 pre-Heisman games, Burrow racked up 51 total touchdowns and 5,020 yards of offense (don’t forget about those 16 receiving yards). He had a 48-6 pre-Heisman TD-INT ratio and averaged 10.7 yards/attempt for an LSU team that dominated in ways that we had never seen. Burrow was so in control that no LSU opponent possessed the ball in the 4th quarter with a chance to take the lead. Mind you, that was with a schedule that included 5 top-10 foes pre-Heisman and 7 including the Playoff. Against teams that were ranked in the final AP Top 25, Burrow had a 27-2 TD-INT ratio. No other quarterback in the last 15 years had more than 22 TD passes in those spots (2020 Mac Jones and 2022 Stetson Bennett IV were the only other QBs with at least 20).
What Burrow did would’ve been the stuff of legend if it happened against a Group of 5 schedule. The fact that he lit up a schedule that grueling will stand the test of time.
1. 2019 Joe Burrow
Where should we start? How about the fact that in 13 pre-Heisman games, Burrow racked up 51 total touchdowns and 5,020 yards of offense (don’t forget about those 16 receiving yards). He had a 48-6 pre-Heisman TD-INT ratio and averaged 10.7 yards/attempt for an LSU team that dominated in ways that we had never seen. Burrow was so in control that no LSU opponent possessed the ball in the 4th quarter with a chance to take the lead. Mind you, that was with a schedule that included 5 top-10 foes pre-Heisman and 7 including the Playoff. Against teams that were ranked in the final AP Top 25, Burrow had a 27-2 TD-INT ratio. No other quarterback in the last 15 years had more than 22 TD passes in those spots (2020 Mac Jones and 2022 Stetson Bennett IV were the only other QBs with at least 20).
What Burrow did would’ve been the stuff of legend if it happened against a Group of 5 schedule. The fact that he lit up a schedule that grueling will stand the test of time.
Posted on 12/11/23 at 11:40 am to LSUDVM1999
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Jordan Travis indeed outplayed him in the second half of the season opener in Orlando,
Did he?
TWO plays changed the entire game. Neither of which were on Daniels.
In a 17-17 game LSU faced a 3rd down in FSU territory. Daniels threw a great pass to Lacy on a slant. Lacy dropped it. Had he caught it, LSU, at minimum, picks up the first down deeper in FSU territory. At most, Lacy has open space to run and turns it into a TD. Instead, LSU had to punt and FSU quickly marched downfield to go up 24-17.
The next drive LSU is on the move again. On the final play of the 3rd quarter Daniels hits Thomas down the sideline on a deep ball that would have set up LSU inside the FSU redzone except...Thomas drops the ball. The very next play Daniels throws a perfect comeback route...except Nabers stumbles and falls down, thus allowing an easy INT. In what would soon become the norm for the season, FSU would score again to go up 31-17, and would not stop scoring TDs until the clock struck zero.
That would be Daniels's "worst" game of the season. A game where he would generate 410 yards of total offense (346 + 64)
It's blasphemous to some to say this, but you can make a strong argument Daniels had a better regular season than even Burrow because Daniels had to carry more of the load himself. Even Burrow had the luxury of one "sub-par" game (Auburn). Daniels didn't. He had to be dynamite on almost every single drive to give LSU a chance to win because it was very likely the defense wasn't going to get more than 1-2 stops per game.
Don't get me wrong, Nabers and Thomas were outstanding and made Daniels look even better. But so did Chase and Jefferson for Burrow. But even though LSU's defense in 2019 wasn't good for most of the season, you rarely got the sense LSU had no margin for error (absent the 2nd half of Texas and Alabama, plus the Florida game). With Daniels you felt like he had to score every time out or LSU had no chance to win. I can't imagine how much pressure that puts on one guy. Pressure that probably cracks 99% of players...except for the one guy who seemed to be immune from immense pressure and never seemed to overreact...ever!
Posted on 12/11/23 at 12:07 pm to LSUDVM1999
Many of these sportswriters would not know greatness if it punched them in the dick. This article is spot on though (except LSU made Lamar their bitch in the bowl game)
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