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re: Dural: Harris "leading the way a quarterback is supposed to"

Posted on 4/17/15 at 2:56 pm to
Posted by No Diggity Tiger
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Posted on 4/17/15 at 2:56 pm to
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This isn't really accurate though. Jennings INT rate was higher than Harris. As bad as Harris was against Auburn, he didn't turn the ball over.


Well to be fair, Harris had 45 attempts to Jennings 227 attempts. You could extrapolate that to Harris throwing 30 TDs-10 INTs. (haha doubtful!) Point is, you could compare stats all day. However, Harris was clearly the more risk taking of the 2 Qbs last year. If he wants to start, he will need to dial it down a bit. That was all i was saying.
This post was edited on 4/17/15 at 3:03 pm
Posted by SouljaBreauxTellEm
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Posted on 4/18/15 at 10:45 am to
Harris had 1 true int and 1 hailmary int.. He also scored TDs on the ground.. Harris accounted for 9 TDs while Jennings accounted for 11 total TDs all season with the bowl game included..

Think about that.. 11 total TDs all season..
Posted by SouljaBreauxTellEm
Mizz
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Posted on 4/18/15 at 11:02 am to
Why doesn't Jennings need to dial it down when he's throwing pick sixes and multiple turnovers fumbling and throwing?? But Harris has 1 true int and he is the one that needs to dial it down? What in the actual frick? The guy was a fricking true freshman last season. Why is this so hard to comprehend for people?

Jt barrett of osu was a Rs freshman and threw 3 ints AT home and they lost to an inferior vt team.. But he was allowed to prove himself and went on to heisman like numbers until his injury. Kyle Allen of a&m finally got his first start AT home and they played like shite against an inferior ULM team.. And they had Kenny hill who was eligible to come back.. But what did they do? They stuck with their guy and their future.. And he went on the destroy auburn the following week.

Harris had one bad first start on the road as a true freshman but never once got to redeem himself. Now if it's because of that injury then I understand.. But was he still not ready in the bowl game??

Harris is the future. There was a point he lead the team to like 10 straight TDs.. And the only non TD was bc of a hail mary attempt.

People blame the defense for losing the notes dame game.. But with better offensive production we put that game out of reach. ND had literally 3 starters on D.. We scored 21 points off three big plays. 2 house jobs by fournette and 1 long passing TD to a guy wide open off busted coverage. With better qb threat we probably convert more drives into TDs and don't have to rely on fake fgs that are incorrectly called. Harris gets this team into the endzone when we get down there. It's truly a shame he never got an opportunity to redeem himself because he had some great match ups vs atm and ND to really light them up. Jennings best game against pathetic atm is still a very average performance at best. We still barely won that game when we should be lighting up the scoreboard off talent. Miles loves playing these games tight to try and stress out a win in the back end.. But we should be confident enough to play our best talent early and often and put up as much as possible.. We should be confident enough with the right talent to where if we do throw an int we can easily make that up the next drive..
Posted by beauchristopher
new orleans
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Posted on 4/18/15 at 11:11 am to
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Well to be fair, Harris had 45 attempts to Jennings 227 attempts. You could extrapolate that to Harris throwing 30 TDs-10 INTs. (haha doubtful!) Point is, you could compare stats all day. However, Harris was clearly the more risk taking of the 2 Qbs last year. If he wants to start, he will need to dial it down a bit. That was all i was saying.


Wouldn't you rather the guy who is putting up far more TDs? Over a guy who is turning the ball over not only in the air but on the ground as well? Wouldn't you rather guy who accounts for more TDs per possession than a guy who managed to account for 11 TOTAL TDs all season long?

Scoring TDS outweighs any type of offensive numbers, luncluding turnovers.. Look at a guy like Boykin or Auburn's qbs.. and those guys don't even have the talent of a Harris. they turn the ball over, but they also put up multiple TDs.. This is why when Miles came out after the season ended and said we need to pass for 250 yards a game I cringed.. The amount of passing yardage is irrelevant. Especially if we are a run heavy team.. but what DOES matter is once we get to the redzone we have the ability to get the ball in the endzone.. whether it's running the qb (harris had rushing tds.. jennings had 0) or throwing to the endzone (harris actually utilized a guy like Dupre's talents and got him like 3 TDs? maybe 2? in very limited action) or just the fact the defense has to respect a guy like Harris more.. it opens it up more for the backs to get into the endzone.. The fact remains Harris had the team getting into the endzone when JENNINGS did not.

Period.
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