Week 1 Passing Stats 2023 vs 2024

Daniels threw the ball down the field last year.

USC tested their guys 1 on 1 a few times and it paid off, and probably was one of the tipping factors.

We gave no trust to Nuss.

We actually had a qualified OC last year.

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USC played 2-high pretty much all night

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Yeah, forcing downfield would have been into double or triple coverage (they were playing corners with their 2 CBs that could have turned around and got close to ball heaved downfield. It wasn’t Sloan. It wasn’t Nuss. USC just decided to take that away from us most of the night). And we couldn’t run the ball enough for the safeties to ever really have to come to down and help in run support.

Sloan made a lot of mistakes. But I don’t think not taking huge shots down the field was one after watching the tape. I did during the game, though for sure.

posts and corners work against cover 2. we did neither

so do seams. we did 1 to taylor.

The ball to Lacy in the end zone on the first drive was money. Lacy has to get a foot down there. If he does, the whole game goes differently.

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The ball to Lacy in the end zone on the first drive was money. Lacy has to get a foot down there. If he does, the whole game goes differently.

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I mean he had to jump and the Cb pushed him out of bounds.

if he didn’t jump he doesn’t catch the ball.

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Can Nuss not scramble and run at all?

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Not his forte, and his arm is strong enough that if he can keep a play alive, he’s gonna want to keep his eyes downfield and try to find the open guy. Which is probably smart.

The thing that really hurts is some of those RPOs or zone reads were open for Nuss to keep it and pick up some yards. And I think he’s athletic enough to do it. But they’ve probably coached him not to do it, because there’s such a huge drop off between him and whoever’s #2. We can’t afford to let him get hurt.

BUT, I was watching some analyst today breaking down the film—I think Carter Bryant—and he said SC’s DC recognized this early and had his ends just crashing down on the the RBs because they knew they didn’t have to respect Nuss keeping it. That hurt our running game. Nuss is gonna have to use his legs moving forward no matter if it’s a risk. It’s an even bigger one for him to not be a threat at all.

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but his biggest problem was being too conservative,

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I used to blame daniels for 22' and that first game in 23'...but now it has me rethinking things.

One thing Nuss was is a gunslinger and he loves to push it down the field with that cannon. He didn't do it at all Sunday night. I now believe the coaches have preached so much about not throwing picks that it had them both scared to take chances down the field vs throwing short safe passes.

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Nuss was 4/8 for 68 yards, not counting the last play.

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You are also counting a couple of obvious throw aways, or either the rec ran the wrong way.