re: A case for Lindsey Scott...you know coach O watched the game.

You’re selling Etling short on his scrambling ability. He made several critical scrambles in that Auburn game and several others during the course of the season. Etling is a better scrambler than people give him credit for.

Anyway, Mauck did a lot of scrambling and very little passing when he first started playing, but in the 2003 season that we won the national Championship in, Mauck hardly scrambled at all that season, because he had finally learned to be an efficient passer and quarterback. However, Mauck never was a strong-arm passer like Flynn and I doubt he was any better than Etling, who did manage to hit several long passes last season to Chark, Dupre, and other. I remember Mauck also hitting some pretty long passes to Henderson and Clayton in the 2003 season.

Junior season to Junior season, I’d say at least at this time, both Mauck and Etling are about equal. Now Mauck had a little advantage in that he didn’t have to play in Les Miles antiquated offense, and Etling did.

Nonetheless, although Flynn had a stronger arm than either Mauck or Etling did, he wasn’t great by any means, but for the most part – he got the job done, although I do remember Perrilloux coming in and winning a couple for him. Not to mention, that exactly like Mauck, he was also an 8th round draft pick.

I’m thinking, no, I’m hoping, that Etling will be quite a bit better next season now that he has a season at LSU under his belt and now that we will have a new OC and a new offense that should be tailored towards what he does good and be far more creative at the same time.