re: Clear as day why Max should be starting over Finley

Poise and Pocket awareness.

TJ just doesn't have it.. yet.

They can both be learned but Max has good instincts.

The two games aren’t even comparable. Florida in the swamp playing fir a playoff spot is a different level than South Carolina at home with a lame duck coach.

Max threw some floaters that came out pretty ugly. Doesn’t have the zip that TJ does

Not that that matters in terms of whose better but I can see why he was down the pecking order. Obviously he performed well and hopefully he can continue to develop.

I hope we get the chance to see them both compete for the starting job or backup job if Brennan comes back healthy next year. I think they can both be really good for us. No need to crown a guy already

Just thag throw to jaray jenkins in the first is all i needed to see

Brennan nor finley make that touch throw.

Im not saying he should start over brennan but he shouldve been starting the last few games

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Max threw some floaters that came out pretty ugly. Doesn’t have the zip that TJ does

Not that that matters in terms of whose better but I can see why he was down the pecking order. Obviously he performed well and hopefully he can continue to develop.

I hope we get the chance to see them both compete for the starting job or backup job if Brennan comes back healthy next year. I think they can both be really good for us. No need to crown a guy already

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That is true, but TJ after watching him has mechanics that Not sure can fix, you can coach and try it, but his weight shifts to his back foot when he is pressured and he throws off his back foot and floats it. Jarett Lee had that issue and never got it corrected and he was here for 5 years.

Max threw some darts as well. Probably first time he threw the ball 36 times in a game setting since he was in HS. Arms get tired. Strength and conditioning can improve them. TJ as an excellent arm but bad mechanics by the time someone is in college are hard to correct, not saying they can't, but it is harder.

Max's mechanics are better than Brennan's and TJ's, in my view. Throws a better touch ball than both and his arm is strong enough and I think as he fills out, that is easier to work on and get stronger.

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0 turnovers and hasn't put the ball on the ground. TJ has 5 interceptions and 3 fumbles (1 lost)

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So you'd say that Max is the better game manager?

I lean toward Max, however, TJ has been in some much rougher situations with a shaky pocket and no ground game. We haven’t seen Max in that situation.

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Well we do have much better coaches on that side of the ball than we ever did back then so I have more hope that we can fix mechanics and have the ability to put him in a system that he can succeed

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Max threw some darts as well. Probably first time he threw the ball 36 times in a game setting since he was in HS. Arms get tired.


The throws I referenced were early on. He threw a couple dangerous out routes that were floated and short.

Both QBs have weaknesses and are developing. Again no need to try to claim one as the future now

I mean can we for one time not have a bitch fit about who should be starting or not

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Well I have said that going into spring it is an open competition. Nobody has any job. Find out who wants to play, all 22 jobs are open. So Myles, Max and TJ should all be told go earn the job. I assume Max plays this week, so going into Spring you have 5 starts and game tapes for TJ, 3 for Myles and 2 for Max. Plenty to evaluate and teach from. Let the best man win the job.

However, as for system to succeed, well that is what I am wondering, The offense that they ran in 2019 was an offense that was base 1TE/3WR/1Back and lots of 4 and 5 WR sets. RPO and zone read incorporated and you had a QB that could make plays with your feet. In my view, the offense vs Florida was the closest schematically that we were to last year because Max could run it. That is just me and what I saw and my football career ended in HS ball almost 40 years ago.

If that is truly the way LSU wants to go, then seems Max has the best ability to run that offense. Not saying you need a QB like Lamar Jackson or going old School, Steve Young, but pocket mobility and agility for QB to pull it and run off zone read when DE is crashing, run roll out and bootlegs

Just remember TJ didn’t have any turnovers in his first start either.

I agree with this - the film will be out and they will note particular behaviors , strengths and weaknesses. He and the coaches had better self analyze this and speculate on how Ole Miss will plan to attack him and how to improve his reactions and use counter measures to defeat them.

The coaches should plan to play TJ as well. Give him a set of designed plays to practice getting execution down pat.

It seems to be we just have problems executing because a couple of guys on each play seem to fail to do one simple thing, wether it’s a chip block fail by the TE or a RB dropping the swing pass etc.