re: Bring on a grad transfer

The responses in this thread kind of sucked until Lester came in.

He would be a walk on and have to earn a spot. It's a win win

D’Eriq King is much better than Parrish right now.

I said Max is the backup earlier in this thread bc I think he’s better than Parrish.

You are arguing facts to a bunch guys who prefer the image of a pocket passer being the face of the LSU program over a dual threat QB. Facts don’t matter. The fact Joe Burrow was a dual threat doesn’t overcome their love of the fact he is the face of the program, thus they’ve made his out to be a pocket passer in their mind. The recruiting services had him as a dual threat out of high school. The exact type QB Urban Meyers has always recruited. Mett and Lee were pocket passers. Burrow is a dual threat. He just doesn’t look like their vision of what a dual threat looks like.

Those guys ignore all those super successful dual threat QBs on your list. They go crazy and demonize any potential dual threat QB transferring or commiting to LSU. They prefer the 11th rated pocket passer and 171st ranked player over a 5* number 1 rated dual threat and 15th ranked player. Their reason? The pocket passer is supposedly more accurate. However they have no knowledge of the dual threat’s current completion percentage. Even though the dual threat had a higher completion percentage when both were sophomores. Some have used the dual threat’s sophomore stat in comparison to the pocket passer’s junior stat as their weak assed excuse as to why they prefer a much much lower ranked player. Just imagine if it was the number 1 rated and 15th ranked pocket passer vs the 11th rated and 171st ranked dual threat. They’d call the coaching staff crazy and incompetent for even considering the dual treat if the pocket passer has shown real interest in LSU.

They ignore the overwhelming success of the past number 1 rated dual threat QBs over the last 10 years. It is a 70+% predictor of Heisman level performance, 70+% predictor of CFP participation. These guys want to pass on the opportunity to sign the number 1 rated dual threat QB with their excuse being based on faulty data. They would also have chosen to pass on Deshaun Watson, Justin Fields, Kyler Murray, Jameise Winston, Cam Newton, Lamar Jackson, Russell Wilson and of course Colin Kaekernick. Go figure. That just does not compute. It is not rational. However a lot of that is going around these days.

Burrow’s pocket awareness was much more important to our success than his running ability. Coach O specifically limited his running this year to avoid injury.

It’s a lot easier to run when you go 4 wide and the secondary is pulled 15 yards down field. We’ll see how Brennan does next year but I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t get at least 20 first downs scrambling when there is nothing down field. Brady’s philosophy is throwing opens up running.

There will be no designed runs for Brennan. So automatically the offense is changing.

And Expecting him to have feel that burrow did on when to leave the pocket is expecting too much. Burrow was a magician in that regard.

quote:

---

Lester Earl

---

Dude you are frustratingly obtuse. There will never be another Burrow so why are we even talking about him for next year? Brennan is the best passer we have for next year. Forget Burrows feet, without his passing ability his feet aren't beating Texas or Bama this year. If you all so worried about getting another runner, we are going to end up with another Anthony Jennings situation. The pass opens up his running. I'm not sure how you can't see that. Even Flynn could run the ball when he needed and Brennan is a better athlete than Flynn was.