re: Etling only had 2 interceptions in 13 games last season

If we get Etling's production from the QB, with this RB group, we'll be sitting at home for bowl season.

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The terrible Ole Miss defense didn’t only give us RB swing passes behind the LOS. That’s just all he completed. I’m not “complaining about the game.” I’m listing facts about the QB play. You not liking those facts doesn’t make it “complaining

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Again, what is your point? He completed 9 of 13. We scored 40 points. We won the game easily and had one of the best offensive outputs of the season. If you can beat a team using low risk plays, you do it.

It’s not that I don’t like your facts, I just don’t know how useful they are. You are trying to use the line that he didn’t complete any passes to WRs as evidence that he didn’t have a good game, but nothing else supports that other than your opinion.

And I missed what you said about UF, sorry. I don’t really see the point in arguing about how effective he was in that game however. It was ugly and we won, there will be games like that every single year. It was not his best game, but he did indeed play well enough to win the game. I know this because we won the game.

I’m sorry you don’t like Danny Etling as a player. But he was a decent QB and the facts actually support this, both against his peers last year and historically at LSU.

I think what we learned from Danny is that we were more than a game manage away from being a championship team. Without him, I think the past 2 years would have been pretty damn ugly and we would have been the laughing stock that some of our fans think we are.

I am not trying to bash Etling but the best thing we can say about him is that he was not a disaster.

He could have been, but Canada called an offense designed to hide him.

Too many LSU fans think that means be is good.

We need someone that’s good enough that the coaches can call the entire offense at any point of the game without fear of the QB frickkng it up.

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No they don’t.

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Yeah they do. It’s quite obvious you aren’t willing to accept this because I just read you are talking about an individual quarter of a game, I’ll take that as you refusing to see the big picture

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Guice ran for 276 in that game! Darrell Williams ran for over 100. Etling had 200 yards passing. 1 completion was a 63 yard pass to williams that traveled 5 yards in the air behind the LOS. Another was a 60 yard completion to Moreau in a complete busted coverage. He ran completely free with no defender within a 20 yard circle radious of him. The majority of high school quarterbacks in America can complete all 9 of the passes he completed in that game.

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So one more time, what is your point? Was it ever even necessary to complete a pass to a WR? Because you just described an absolutely dominant effort by our offense.

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In 2016 he led game-winning drives against Florida and Auburn.

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In 2016 we lost to Florida and Auburn

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Orgeron shite his pants against Florida

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We scored 10 total points in this game

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the clock operators and refs stole that game vs Auburn

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When the fourth quarter started, Etling had 31 total passing yards. Our defense didn’t allow a TD in the entire game and we lost. We scored 13 total points. Clock operators? This is embarrasing

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A large segment of the LSU fanbase is just dumb

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You just said a QB led 2 game winning drives in games LSU LOST

i find it amusing that people trash canada. the guy had an overeager coach sticking his nose in the gameplan but canada still managed to produce a competent offense that AT LEAST made d coordinators have to gameplan for it. then people go on to complain about the o line recruiting the last few years but never factor that in to their canada complaints

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Gotta be more efficient in the red zone than Etling was

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this was definitely the biggest issue last year. however, i don't know how much to blame canada, orgeron or someone else. i suspect it was mostly orgeron

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Etling was not capable of making the plays needed to win games

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this is a misleading statement. someone has already pointed out that in crucial games, he wasn't even being asked to so we can't say for sure he couldn't

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Breaking off routes

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this is what i don't understand. the roster has had respectable wr's but those guys REALLY struggle at getting open and drop too many. but etling is the one who sucked.

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Bottom line is he was serviceable enough to win 10-11 games last year for sure with any decent receivers and a running game that included a healthy Guice all year.

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Not even close. He couldn't throw accurately enough for us to have a middle passing game so we had to abandon the middle of the field as well as the intermediate distance routes. How many posts or corner routes did we even run, much less complete? Almost none, because he couldn't throw them.
Bottom line our offense was severely limited by not having this part of the passing game available. That's why the stats are so good. When you only throw to RBs or short TEs throws with the occasional deep ball to back people off, you aren't going to have many interceptions but you aren't going to have much reliable productivity either. That was our problem in a nutshell.