Aggie Board - Wanting a new QB?

I’m sure Collin Klein still wants Avery Johnson but he isn’t leaving a starting job at K-State to compete with Reed

Grass is always greener on the other side.

Remember that when you're calling for Nuss to be benched and BK to be fired.

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I thought the hype for Reed coming out of our game was odd. They had already gone to Reed earlier in the season and switched back. They just caught us in a perfect storm making the switch in a game at home to a qb with a completely different style with short fields that matched up to our biggest weakness. It was simple zone read.

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Yep, he started his first two possessions off LSU interception inside the 30. Third possession started in their territory and made a 1-play perfect throw into our red zone again. Couldn’t have made it easier for him to start.

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Yep, he started his first two possessions off LSU interception inside the 30. Third possession started in their territory and made a 1-play perfect throw into our red zone again. Couldn’t have made it easier for him to start.

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Yep. This was my point in including the short fields part.



I firmly believe that if we punt the ball instead of throw that first INT we win the game.


The crowd is still quiet. The defense has time to adjust, more time runs off the clock etc etc.


Instead the crowd got loud, the game got tight, the defense got shell shocked and nuss got flustered. He was like Shane falco. Quicksand.

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I thought the hype for Reed coming out of our game was odd. They had already gone to Reed earlier in the season and switched back.


They just caught us in a perfect storm making the switch in a game at home to a qb with a completely different style with short fields that matched up to our biggest weakness.

It was simple zone read.

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It was even weirder that they started really hyping Moffitt and talking about being mentally tough and physically dominant after that game.

During the short time Swann was in the game he threw a few erratic passes
and tried to call the fourth time out of the half.

I find it so weird that some of you lurk that homoerotic site in the first place

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That's why they got Swann

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Swann is/was the Temu blue-light special on the QB1 isle. He was never going to be a QB1-caliber player for an SEC team - especially not behind Nuss.

I was never really sure why we picked him up when he couldn't beat out a (previously unproven on the big stage) dual-threat transfer QB from New Mexico State - at Vanderbilt, of all places.

Then again, maybe he was the best one left over when the coaches realized that they might need an actual drop-back passer for a backup instead of an unproven dual-threat QB in Collins.

Inquiring minds kinda want to know (but not really).

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They just caught us in a perfect storm making the switch in a game at home to a qb with a completely different style with short fields that matched up to our biggest weakness.

It was simple zone read.

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At first, I thought that Elko was simply putting in Marcel to make a point with Weigman - calm down and play better, or else....

I firmly believe that Elko had NO idea that Marcel would carve up our defense the way he did, and simply decided to ride the hot hand for the rest of his game.

Kudos to him for making lemonade out of Yell Leader piss, but I won't give him credit for making some masterful, well thought-out change at QB to take advantage of an obvious weakness in our defense (he never saw that weakness, given that Weigman played the entire first half).

He simply rolled a seven and got lucky.

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Exactly, he was always meant to be the backup, he likely knew this coming in.

Why would a high caliber quarterback looking for playing time want to come to LSU and compete with an entrenched starter who already knows the offense? It isn't realistic to expect that.

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That was kinda my point at the beginning...

In my other post, I said I wasn't sure about the Rant's obsession with needing to bring in another starting-caliber QB to "compete" with Nuss, but whatever. As a thought exercise, I simply threw out a name that I thought would fit with the average Rantard's narrative about needing someone else to "push" Nuss in the offseason.

Like I said, the hook was too shiny and I shouldn't have bit at it, but I did so let the mouth-breathers have their fun at my expense. I can handle it.

That said, though....

I still believe we need to find someone better than Swann as a backup. If you have a DT QB1, you might get by with a backup that's a lesser-quality passer as long as your RB's can pick up the slack.

If your entire offense is going to be predicated around a gunslinger, you need someone capable of actually passing the ball in an SEC offense as a backup. But with someone like Nuss at QB1 that's not the case, and we need a better backup for him.