re: I don’t think enough has been said about Nuss’ throw to Anderson

quote:

---

Oh you mean the one I posted on the OP? The one that clearly shows Anderson being bracketed?

---

Nope. A photo doesn’t show much. The speed matters. AA was blowing past that deep safety who had just started to move. Had the ball been laid over AA’s right shoulder, that safety would not have been close to a factor. Look at the video from the end zone shot. If you do that, and maintain your position, you are just trolling. Nobody who knows anything about football can see that evidence and think that safety was a factor.

quote:

---

Had the ball been laid over AA’s right shoulder

---

That wasn’t the route, Anderson was always breaking to the inside. Which when you consider that, laying the ball over his right shoulder is quite literally impossible. And had he done that, he gives the nickel a chance to recover and gives the safety a chance to get over the top.

He made the perfect throw.

quote:

---

Anderson was always breaking to the inside. Which when you consider that, laying the ball over his right shoulder is quite literally impossible.

---

When AA was looking at the QB he was looking over his right shoulder. A ball thrown over his right shoulder would be the easiest catch imaginable.

You are either trolling, ignorant, or else we are discussing different plays. But I don’t think it’s the latter, because we seem to both be discussing the TD that got us to 22.

quote:

---

I’m going to be downvoted to smithereens but it was not a great play or a great throw by the QB; it was certainly not a perfect throw, which would have been caught over the shoulder where the defender could not have gotten within two feet of it. Also, it was single coverage right in front of the QB who had about 90 minutes to throw the ball. Earlier on the drive, on third and 10, Nuss made an incredibly agile scramble, and with a defender clawing at him from behind, leapt in the air to throw a perfect strike to Mason Taylor. That was 10 times the play this one was.

---

First of all, I’m going to have to agree with the analysts, former players, coaches and commentators on this one, not someone just looking for attention.

Second, you are ignoring the DB covering Lacy, who would have peeled over and likely intercepted any pass with air under it. This was a timing play and it was perfect.

Third - Nuss threw the ball within 2 seconds of the snap, so enough of the “had 90 minutes to throw” hyperbole.

The ball was thrown so early that in the NEZ it looked horribly off. It was shocking that it was caught but now that I’ve seen the replay it doesn’t seem so off - you can see it’s something that was practiced over and over again.

In summary, just stop. Admit you are wrong and find something else to argue about.

quote:

---

Glad he hit it but man the underneath route was wide open and a much safer throw. Under had lots of room to run too.

---

You make a good point. OTOH, I felt more comfortable w/ a difficult throw + routine catch by Anderson than a routine throw + routine catch by Thomas. I'm more confident w/ Anderson catching the ball than Thomas. Thomas had some passes thrown to him that game I felt he should've caught. They weren't routine, but he should've caught some of them.

quote:

---

You make a good point. OTOH, I felt more comfortable w/ a difficult throw + routine catch by Anderson than a routine throw + routine catch by Thomas. I'm more confident w/ Anderson catching the ball than Thomas. Thomas had some passes thrown to him that game I felt he should've caught. They weren't routine, but he should've caught some of them.

---

I agree. I love Thomas and think he’s been way underutilized on offense, but he showed Saturday why he’s not a top WR. He didn’t miss any, really, but an LSU WR has to come down with at least one of those. He need to get the ball in his hands around the LOS—I think he could actually be a really good RB.

And even if we’d have completed that short pass to him and gotten the 1st down, but didn’t score, our offense is terrible inside the 10 when the field shrinks. I actually like our chances better from the 20-25 than the 5-10. It was ballsy, but it worked out perfectly. Would have been gut wrenching to have a 1st and goal from the 7 or wherever and come up empty.

And gotta give a lot of credit to anderson because Nuss put the ball where he believed that anderson would get to it. Just a lot of trust all around. And lets not forget that was Nuss's 3rd progression so the line had to give him the time to let Anderson start his break, Total team play there and yes that was a Sunday throw,

quote:

---

I'm just glad Aaron Anderson is finally healthy.

I was hard on him last yr. I knew he could be this guy coming out of high school.

---

Fun fact: LSU didn't have a single receiver from that class committed that was in the Top 50 receivers nationally. Anderson was #4

That’s about as good as it gets

Nuss has the potential to be the best QB in the country. If he can trust his athleticism, and for the love of Christ, stop throwing off his back foot so much………..he would be unstoppable