re: Brennan vs Johnson Part II: The Tape

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I dont give a shite who starts this year, Peetz will play the guy that runs his offense better

Im saying Brennan was clearly a better QB last year

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I'm leaning toward Brennan starting albeit Max should. Max needs to be ready. If Brennan starts I seriously doubt he last 4 games. His playing style leads to a higher risk of injury. He just doesn't deflect energy very well while being tackled.

This is exactly why I have no idea why everyone’s crowning Johnson. I felt this way since those games played and this just reaffirmed it.

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Ok, Johnson was 55% last year

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Ok?

A true freshmen who had the 2 top pass catchers leave the team.

I’m not looking at a body of work from him. Just flashes

“A true freshmen who had the 2 top pass catchers leave the team.

I’m not looking at a body of work from him. Just flashes”


Translation: facts don’t matter and you’ll move the goalpost anytime in order to say that Max Johnson can do no wrong.

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Johnson showed potential and promise after Finley looked mediocre. It was refreshing and a little exciting when the season was essentially over and nobody cared.

Brennan looked good on paper each week but the defense sucked in those games and we lost some which people remember. He looked nervous and lacked emotion which isn’t ideal for your QB. But his numbers were better than any QB through his first few games as a starter.

Either will do fine but for multiple reasons I start Brennan week one.

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Brennan looked like a true freshman making his first start vs. MSU. He was indecisive, mechanically slow, often locked on to his first read, and was late delivering the ball even when guys were open. Basically all of his TD passes we great plays be the WR making up for poor and/or late throws.

Vs. Mizzou he looked like a different guy. Decisive and confident. He made some tremendous deep throws that (at least in the small sample size) Johnson probably can't make.

Johnson WAS a true freshman making his first start vs. Florida (by far the best opponent either of the two faced). His first throw looked like a disaster (a looping floater out of the endzone). But then he settled down and made this throw...probably the best of the season by any QB



He had the confidene and comfort to roll out...feel the defense...pull up...and then float a beautiful touch pass over a defender who looked to be in perfect position

There were also multiple times Johnson was able to quickly process things and work through progressions for big plays in the UF and OM games. Something not always easy to do for a true Freshman and arguably better than what Brennan did. To me, the most impressive thing about Johnson is that he never really looked rattled as a true freshman. That doesn't mean he was always great (he wasn't). But the moment never looked too big for him.

IMO, when everything is "clean" Brennan (with his arm strength) can make some great throws. But Johnson showed more of an ability to make plays when maybe things didn't go right.

The brilliance of Burrow was not his ability to make the great play when everything worked like it was supposed to. It was his ability to make the great play when it didn't.

NEITHER guy is Burrow. But I think Johnson's ability gives your more margin of error when things aren't "perfect".

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But then he settled down and made this throw...probably the best of the season by any QB

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Dude that is a gif of a WR completely torching a DB and getting over a yard of seperation

Good throw, but lets not oversell it

Johnson will never be as old as Brennan so I dunno why you think that’s relevant to what they put on the field? There’s a reason the Johnson pimps make all the excuses and the Brennan argument is totally performance based.

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Brennan looked like a true freshman making his first start vs. MSU. He was indecisive, mechanically slow, often locked on to his first read, and was late delivering the ball even when guys were open. Basically all of his TD passes we great plays be the WR making up for poor and/or late throws.

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I would caveat that with what I recall Ensminger saying which was that they trimmed down the playbook and simplified plays for the true FR. Probably gave them more simplified reads.

In my OP the article mentions that LSU had a more complex system:

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There are enough ways (heavy RPO use, heavy play action use, standard down passing) to simplify a QBs process nowadays that, unless processing is really sketchy, the things I listed are what differentiate you at the college level. You can go look at North Carolina’s offense, for example. Sam Howell doesn’t have to do a ton of thinking or processing, he does do a lot of big boy throwing. LSU’s offense requires a bit more, it is straight dropback heavy, the way they run play-fakes doesn’t really influence defenders as much as I’d like, and it is heavy on quick passing.

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Hopefully Peetz can tailor the scheme to exploit defenses without making the QB overthink.

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Brennan argument is totally performance based.

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So what do you think of 5-27 on 3rd down in the 2 losses against terrible defenses?