re: Danny Etling is a good Quarterback

He played lights out against Texas A/M

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Disrespectful to Jefferson to group him with Harris and Jennings

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I thought about that ,then I rewatched 3 games in a row of all of his throws,he was fricking horrid.

Jefferson was mostly terrible. LSU won in 2011 in spite of Jefferson, not because of.

If not for great defense and special teams play, LSU would have likely had overall losing records in 2009 and 2010. Jefferson was painful to watch. Even in 2011, at least through the first eight games, Jarrett Lee performed as the better QB and frequently came in to clear up JJ's mistakes.

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He missed 4-5 deep throws that would have went for likely TD’s

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No he didn’t. He did miss a couple. I’m going by memory here, but one was right on the button, but the receiver (Chark?) veered away from it at the last moment. It was a perfect strike at the goal line, though, that should have been a TD. I remember this less well, but another one was off by inches at the back of the end zone.

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Jefferson was mostly terrible. LSU won in 2011 in spite of Jefferson, not because of.

If not for great defense and special teams play, LSU would have likely had overall losing records in 2009 and 2010. Jefferson was painful to watch.

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Despite all of this (even though it's not all true) he was much better than Harris, who was lightyears better than Jennings.

People seem to forget how horrendous Jennings was.

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Even in 2011, at least through the first eight games, Jarrett Lee performed as the better QB and frequently came in to clear up JJ's mistakes.

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This just isn't true lol. Jefferson was suspended the first 4, played sparingly in the 5th and 6th, was a good running option in the 7th, and played sparingly in the 8th. At no point did Lee clean up Jefferson's mistakes in the first 8 games of the season.

Then Lee shite his pants against Alabama and that was enough of that.

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No he didn’t. He did miss a couple. I’m going by memory here, but one was right on the button, but the receiver (Chark?) veered away from it at the last moment. It was a perfect strike at the goal line, though, that should have been a TD. I remember this less well, but another one was off by inches at the back of the end zone.

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I think this poster is probably talking about '17.

The 16 game was painful. Etling wasn't ready for the moment and panicked over and over and over again with pressure.

In the '17 game, Etling missed probably 4 Chark TDs. I was at the game and it was maddening. JK Scott won the game for Alabama.

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Even in 2011, at least through the first eight games, Jarrett Lee performed as the better QB and frequently came in to clear up JJ's mistakes.

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This just isn't true lol. Jefferson was suspended the first 4, played sparingly in the 5th and 6th, was a good running option in the 7th, and played sparingly in the 8th. At no point did Lee clean up Jefferson's mistakes in the first 8 games of the season.

Then Lee shite his pants against Alabama and that was enough of that.

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Yeah, people like to post revisionist history about Jefferson and Lee.

Fact of the matter was, LSU's defense and running game was dominant in almost every game played that year. Lee was mediocre, but that was good enough as long as he could use play-action and get time. And even then, he'd maybe get a completion but the throw would be off, preventing a bigger play. I remember him throwing play-action against Oregon, he had someone 2 yards open; but the guy had to basically stop to catch it, and was tackled. Lead that receiver and it's probably a TD.

Again, that was good enough against 12 of the teams we played. We totally stuffed them on defense, and wore them down with a pounding run game. And that formula didn't change with Jefferson taking snaps.

The problem was the 13th team we played- Alabama, twice. We could hold them on defense, but we couldn't establish the run on offense, and they put heavy pressure on the QB. We couldn't run play-action because they didn't respect the run, because they stuffed that.
In game 1, Lee was a complete disaster, very lucky he didn't throw a couple pick-6's. Jefferson came into that game and could run, which was something Bama hadn't prepared for. He didn't produce a lot of points, but he didn't throw interceptions and we were able to hold the ball, and play field position (helped that we had a great punter). Oh, and Bama missed 3 makeable FGs, which would have put the game out of reach; just as them making FGs ended up doing in the Superdome.

In game 1, holding the score tied, we finally wore them down late and in overtime.
In the rematch, as stated, they didn't miss their FGs, and this time they were ready for Jefferson.

I know, it isn't fair, we beat them once (on their home field no less), we should have got a different team in the bowl. ANY other team in the country, we stomp.

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Hard to say. I liked Etling and he looked good at times. People forget though in that 2016 10-0 loss to Alabama if he is accurate LSU wins comfortably. He missed 4-5 deep throws that would have went for likely TD’s

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You’re conflating the 2016 Bama game and the 2017 Bama game. Etling missed several throws that could have been scores in the 24-10 loss to Bama in 2017. The most notable one was the underthrown ball to DK Chark on the 1st drive of the game.

In the 10-0 loss in 2016, the entire offense got shut down and we never really had a chance to score.

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The Etsiah

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The Mettsiah kicks the Etsiah's butt............