Does #18 Look Anything Like #13?

Thank you for posting this. Anyone who thinks Nussmeier isn't a capable quarterback with a strong arm hasn't been paying close enough attention the last few years.

Does he always make the best decisions? No

Is something clearly wrong with him health-wise this year? Obviously, yes

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we just need to commit to the run game and more variety offensively given his limitations.

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Buddy, since Brian Kelly and Brad Davis have been here, we’ve had the worst traditional rushing attack in the SEC. We don’t block well and we don’t run well.

The only time we’ve had a 1000 yard rusher under Kelly is 2023 with Jayden.

Did you watch that shite show last Saturday? LSU is going nowhere with Nuss as quarterback. He is a lost cause. Time to move on.

He has two weeks to recover and improve. And moving on implies there’s a better option. What would that be?

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We can win games with Nussmeier as is

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Yeah as long as the defense holds opponents to less than 20

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we just need to commit to the run game and more variety offensively given his limitations.

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Troy Aikman said it pretty well
In reference to the Bengals after MNF. You don’t just suddenly develop a physical identity and ability to run the football.

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If his ability to throw the ball is limited by injury or anything else, then what is he doing out there? It won’t matter if he’s making the correct reads and putting them in the best plays. If you can’t execute, it doesn’t matter.

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I think there's a domino effect. I'm not sure what the first domino is, but Nuss' injury affects his decision-making and the plays that should "be there." The blocking is a disgrace for an SEC team. So "wide-ooen" plays Sloan sees and calls we face plant on.

When we (fans) distill it all down to one cause, we whiff as well.

not even close. He is injured and injured to a point of significant pain when he rotates his trunk. He needs to sit for bye week and SC week. then come back healthy, hopefully, and take our offense into a different gear, hopefully without Davis, Sloan.

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not even close

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Yep.

#13 doesn't even look like the same guy as #18. The throws he was making then hardly look real.

I keep going back to the throw to Jaray. He just casually flicked it across his body 45 yds.

Regardless of what Scarborough says, Nuss isn't throwing it like he used to.

I agree. I was just saying the number of plays that they can run are necessarily limited because of the injury and the problems (whatever those might be) in blocking - not just offensive line.

Some wide receivers are either running wrong routes on occasion or they are just running some weirdly designed plays.

With all these factors, the only things the coaches can control are personnel and play calls. If they don’t have plays to take advantage of what their personnel can do and be successful and productive, then they have to change the personnel. If the plays don’t work with any of the types of players they have recruited, then that’s a much deeper problem.

To put it plainly, it’s on the coaches. They’re trying to fit round pegs into square holes.
Whether they started the dominoes falling (starting with evaluation and recruiting, coaching and development, and offensive scheme or defensive scheme) or not, it’s up to them to halt the continued collapse of those dominoes.