The Quarterback Situation

It's hilarious to me how people all of a sudden people find JL as "The Answer". Let me give my opinion on things...

We have a poor defensive line that has been underachieving this year. At most(on a majority of plays) JJ is getting a good 5 secs to throw the ball. This would be a sufficient amount of time to throw the ball if we weren't running plays where all of the routes take at the LEAST that long to develop, with no routes that give JJ someone to dump the ball off to when he's feeling that pressure and teams like Florida aren't going to let him scramble. When we did run a play like that last game, he passed to Charles Scott who picked up a good gain. When we didn't run plays that took that long to develop, JJ was hitting his receivers with quick passes.

Now, let's say JL was in the same situation. JL likes to go for it, so although he may be able to squeeze some passes in on those deep routes because he has the better arm, we also saw last year that his decision making isn't the best and again he trys to SQUEEZE passes in. This leads to interceptions and as we all saw last year pick sixes. Which we saw last year give a good 7-14 points to the other team, which no team, especially us, can afford. Not to add when he's pressured, he doesn't have the legs to get out of that situation.

Now granted, I'm not against letting JL see some action at some point in a game like Tulane or something, because it can't hurt to give it a try right? But I'm confident he's more than likely not going to change much. Neither is RS who isn't ready to be a starting QB, and hasn't thrown a collegiate pass yet. Neither is CG who also hasn't thrown a pass yet, and wasn't even in the battle for the starting spot this year. The coaches aren't dumb enough to keep a freshman who could POSSIBLY be the starter for the team at 4th string.

In my opinion, this falls mostly on the offensive play calling. Stop running the option so often...it's not working. Start running more plays that have a good variety of routes, and not just all short routes or all deep routes. Stop lining up with TH at WR so much....they don't believe you're running an end around on 3rd and 15. Our run blocking has gotten better each game, hand the ball off more to Scott. And finally...get the offense in some type of rhythm and stop with the random play calling, and being too predictable on other plays.

This is just my opinion on things, and I'm not THAT disgruntled right now because we're 5-1. Anyways, I'm sure everyone is sick of seeing these topics, but I'm interested to see what everyone else has to say. So discuss...