re: Hester and Manuel talking about Nuss's injury

Now that Kiffin knows Nuss has a torso injury, you better believe he will have a backup scrub taking a cheap shot at Nuss in the torso.

The way most coaches handle these things these days, it is likely he will start.

Hopefully, the team can grab a large enough lead pretty soon, so Nuss can sit the entire second half.

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if nuss sits, are we opening up the playbook or we gonna stay conservative cause we don't want the backup to look better?

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Backup would certainly rack up some stats. Nuss would lose the opportunity to pad some stats. No one would care if the backup looked better.

Nuss needs the reps. If he’s on the back end of the injury then work through it and get the reps in. Have him play the first half, jump into a big lead then have MVB play. This is the best strategy

My hope would be that we run the frick out of the ball and Nuss gets around 250 yards and we don't do too much. Let the OL "practice" running the ball. Let the RBs see the holes. Run well enough where you don't have to throw deep balls then for Ole Miss, throw the mf deep ball to back that secondary up and try to open up the run.

I know people say the run opens up the pass, but I believe the deep pass game can open up your running lanes.


Put Jackson in. I know people want harlem in, but KJ is going to be needed this year. He is the closest thing we have to a bruiser and you have to hit the 2nd and 3rd level guys in the mouth sometimes to make them hesitate on tackles. He needs reps.

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Y’all are so wrapped up in this idea that BK is lying that yall take basic logic out of the equation.

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No, I think some people are actually using logic rather than just swallowing anything the coach says as truth.

Kelly said:

“He’s been slowed a little bit with a torso injury,” Kelly said at his weekly news conference. “He’s fighting through it, and he’s getting better.

“He’s not going to be able to really shut it down until the bye week (Oct. 4).

In that statement he is implying (if not outright stating) (a) the injury has had an effect on the struggles of the offense and (b) that he needs additional rest to further heal the injury that is cause (a).

So logically, if the injury is slowing him and he needs rest to prevent the injury from slowing him, then why not get him that rest now ahead of the meat of the schedule? Why wait until AFTER the Ole Miss game?

"But he needs the reps"!

He's a 5th year senior. He's played over 1,000 snaps in his LSU career. He's attempted 850 passes. Given that, I think logic would dictate the benefit of healing whatever injury he has would FAR outweigh any benefit he might received from 40 more snaps against an FCS opponent. If' Nuss's injury is a big factor in the struggles of your offense then the priority should be to get him as healthy as can be as soon as you can.

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If the injury is severe enough to (allegedly) totally impair the approach and function of the offense, and the only way to heal it is with rest, then he needs to sit this weekend in order to maximize his (and by extension, the offense's) effectiveness vs. Ole Miss. Otherwise, if he plays vs SLU, we'll know it was a BS excuse from BK (at least as to the severity of the injury) thrown out after he was called out for his team's poor offensive performance to date.

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The injury occurred fall camp. I don't know why so many are thinking this is an injury that Nuss sustained since the start of the season. It's why he got days of rest, was put on a pitch count & wasn't allowed to throw in front of the media towards the very end of camp especially the scrimmages.

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Yeah. People keep acting like it's a new injury. BK even said that he is on the back end of this and is finally feeling better. He even said that he is now able to do some things at practice that he wasn't able to do in the weeks before.

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Exactly

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He’s barely mobile

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Maybe, but his highlight tape showed some very solid runs last year.