re: Daniels per BK...mentioned the word recognition at least 4 times

when the offensive line starts playing together and well, daniels will be a very servicable qb. i just don't ever see him being a great reader of defense, and you either have downfield vision or you don't. there are lots of qb's who lead teams to 9 and 10 win seasons with the skills daniels does have. a few can even win a championship - see Cam Newton, Jameis Winston. problem is i don't know if daniels is in that league, although if we had our defense playing to optimal LSU standards it's possible.

as i said before, Kelly is playing to win as many games as he can this year, and you can't blame him. look at how he has been savaged so far. If the fan base is not going to have any patience, he has to play the odds. as much as i want to see Nuss play, i understand.

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But there's definitely a group on here that won't hear any criticism of Daniels or any talk of Nuss in what was supposed to be a close QB competition

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I trust the staff to put the best qb on the field that gives us the best chance to win. I also don't read a whole bunch into the "close competition" comments by BK...what is he supposed to say? JD is the clear cut #1 qb and we don't have much backing him up? It may be close and I am sure we will see both and will probably find out why JD is the starter.

The thing about Daniels is he missed some reads, but on those same plays he gained positive yards with his running ability.

He could be saying it just to keep Nuss's confidence high. One play and Nuss is the starter. Or it really is close. From what I saw last year Nuss was only interested in showing his arm off and throwing it deep into 2 and 3 man coverages. He has a gunslinger mentality, based on the few reps I have seen. I know he has had an entire spring and fall camp to improve so hopefully when he does play he will show improvement in that area...mostly bad things happen when you throw into triple coverages in the SEC.

Yeah and Jayden has only done is 6 times in 30 games….

After watching film on him, not sure he will ever be great at pre- or post-snap reads. He primarily threw to his primary receiver with very few exceptions.

I think if he improves a bit, with an up tempo offense and his running ability, hopefully will be enough to be successful in the SEC! We shall see shortly.

In 2018:

Burrow - Year 1 at LSU (After 10 games played at OSU)

Completion % - 57.8%
Y/A - 7.6
TD - 16
Int - 5
Yds - 2894
Rushing yds - 399

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But there's definitely a group on here that won't hear any criticism of Daniels or any talk of Nuss in what was supposed to be a close QB competition. And they are delusional about how well Daniels actually played. He was a mixed bag on Sunday for sure and there are still some question marks with him that will hopefully be addressed.

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When we start talking about fans being delusional, let's go with this:

The QB was ok. As pointed out, 70% completion, 2 TDs to zero turnovers, over 100 yds rushing, let the team on a 99 yd drive in a minute and a half for a TD, when we were down 7.
That is not a bad performance.

There are many other things that need fixing, BEFORE you get to that position.

WR: Boutte is supposed to be an elite All American. Dropped 2 sure TDs, didn't make an effort on the second one. Dropped an additional pass he should have caught when open. The other WRs had good games, they caught the passes they were targeted on. Jenkins had 2 TDs.
Any and every person on this board would have said, a new QB needs to lean on Boutte, who was probably considered the best player on the team. But he was the weakest link in that group.

RB: 39 yds rushing on 13 carries for Cain, Goodwin and Williams. Cain and Goodwin each had 1 run for 9 yds; you take those away, and you get 21 yds on 11 carries. 2 yds a run.
That's not an acceptable output, you need the running game (besides the QB) to at least pose a threat.
This might be one of the reasons you didn't see Nuss, because the defense would have been teeing off on him as much as Daniels.

O line: no escaping this, they were terrible. Didn't get a push in the run game, didn't provide much pass protection. Center had some bad snaps, one which likely cost us an early TD.

Defense was bad. D Line was not the force of nature we expected. Their only achievement was not being blown off the line in the red zone. Linebackers were lost, secondary looked like guys who'd never played together before. As stated, the one area that looked good was in the red zone, where it's more about man-vs-man, holding your ground, and not having to read what's happening.

Special teams... special ed. Literally better off without a punt returner back; at least then you take possession. I know it's "only 2", but we are going into game 2 with a 100% fumbles on punt returns.
Basic kick coverage is woefully bad; 2 blocked kicks. Not low kicks or misses, blocks because of free runs at the kicker.

There's a LOT of shite to clean up, before we have the luxury of pulling our QB (the only productive guy on the field) to check out the backup.

No but some coaches are better at coaching.

Players don’t learn all this on their own.