re: Daniels is not a bad QB

Oh there was zero doubt that he trusted the receiver more and let it go into tight coverage more. People are more frustrated with the depth of the routes. They were all short and towards the sidelines

I was thinking about Daniels while watching the Bengals/Ravens game last night.

He certainly has wheels and can get out of trouble or setup designed runs, just like Lamar, but he’s not nearly the quarterback that LJ is to play that type of style. Daniels isn’t nearly as accurate as top end QBs, his mechanics are off (getting the ball out quickly especially), his field vision and his decision making are just poor. I think much of this you can actually work around with better scheming, which is another area of concern with the offense I won’t get into.

The #1 thing for me though is it seems Daniels is too afraid to make mistakes to take risks so we have no downfield threat. Whether that’s in the middle or over the top, it’s non existant in our offense. Even if you miss them, like Lamar did a few of last night when his touch was off, the ability to throw the ball 50+ yards downfield at least keeps the defense honest and can open up the run lanes. This element is completely missing with JD and our offense as a whole.

LSU fans are all too familiar with “bad QB” play so we know it when we see it. The only truly good ones the last 15 years have been Burrow and Mett. The rest were all mediocre to bad. Daniels isn’t the worst among those, but that also doesn’t make him a good QB either.

By your logic Jimbo Fisher or any highly paid coach has never made a bad decision because they’re paid a lot of money.

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Do all of you honestly believe Daniels is really that bad?

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He is playing that bad right now. It almost looks like he has a mental block that will not let him release the ball downfield.

Another possible problem is Daniels came from ASU and Denbrock came from Cinncy so JD is still learning Denbrocks system that is not firmly entrenched. We saw Burrow have pedestrian yr his first yr here and then when the right offense presented itself he was much better and had full trust of the coaches to run whatever.

Daniels does not have the trust of these coaches to run a play without "check with me"

95% of you are quick to point the finger at JDaniels. Do you seriously not see our OL getting blown backward? Do you not see receivers dropping balls and getting zero seperation?

It is definitely an issue with offensive philosophy but JD is what we need right now with this oline. He had 180 yds passing in the first half. He had dropped balls and ZERO running game. People need to chill. Let BK get his Oline right, which should be there in the next 2 years and then you will see championship offense.

Yes, he's that bad.

He is bad a running the offense they are asking him to run.

I think he's a decent QB. However, I don't think he's an SEC caliber QB. The kid has thrown 2 TD's and 1 INT combined in his last four starts.

In his 1st year at Az St. he played exceptionally well. He never regained that form. He came here off a season where he threw 10 TD's and 10 INT's (in the Pac 12).

Does he suck...NO.
Is he good enough to be SEC caliber....Also no.
Are we forgetting how Ashford (Auburn 3rd string QB) who was making his 2nd ever start severely outplayed JD?
Everybody keep saying we have no talent. Do you honestly think Auburn is in better shape than us in the talent department? Ashford looked MUCH better than JD.

Just because BK is sticking with JD that doesn't mean anything to me. Les Miles stuck with Jordan Jefferson.

We'll never know but I surmise BK was only able to recruit JD here by guaranteeing him the starting role. JD is on record saying he came here to improve his draft stock and to tap into untapped potential. No way he was transferring to any school to simply "compete" for a starting job when he had already been starting for 3 years.