re: I was completely floored

I hope Trey Holly returns. We really missed him this year.

The RB's won't be a problem next year, it is the OL, I'm worried about, but things are really looking a lot better than even two weeks ago with that unit.

Correct, he’s not nearly as athletic as Burrow. He might be close in straight line speed but agility, instincts and running vision Burrow is top notch and Nuss is below average.

He's a good QB, no doubt, but you have to understand what Burrow's offensive playcalling was his first year AND he came to the team in the Summer. Daniels came in the Summer prior to that season as well.

Nuss has been in the LSU system for 3 years now. It's not like he had to learn a new system and get comfortable with the players in like 2 months as was the case for Burrow and Daniels.

He still did great, but let's compare him as a RS JR to say Max Johnson as a true Sophmore (first full season starting) on a bad LSU team:

Nuss: 63.7%, 3735 yds, 26 TDs, 11 INTs, 16 sacks

Johnson: 60.1%, 2815 yds, 27 TDs, 6 INTs, 33 sacks

So he had more yards, sure, but that is because Nuss took 490 pass attempts to Max's 373 pass attemps.

In the roughly the same number of pass attempts (if you count Max's first 4 starts in 2000):

Nuss: 64% (490 PA), 3735 yds, 26 TDs, 11 INTs, 16 sacks

Max: 60% (499 PA), 3712 yds, 34 TDs, 7 INTs, 40 sacks

It's not that impressive when you think about the fact that Max had a mediocre OL, while Nuss supposedly has two first round OT's on his line and a strong pass blocking line.

I didn't see them, but I believe Burrow had a running game.

Seems like Nuss has to pass a lot more.

No kidding. And he had less to work with

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He’s every bit as athletic as Burrow.

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Not a knock on Nuss but Burrow was a tough son of a bitch. Burrow could go through 2 defenders to get the extra 3 yards for a first down.

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Not a knock on Nuss but Burrow was a tough son of a bitch

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I’ve been as critical about Nuss as anyone. But toughness isn’t part of his problem.

He proved that last night.

It’s more his unwillingness to use his athletic abilities to run when the opportunities are present.

Glad someone said it . Do you realize the offense we ran those years lmaooo nuss is running the damn lsu air raid

His stats are a little misleading because he had 500 pass attempts. Jayden and Joe had 100 less pass attempts, including the bowl stats.

That being said, he played great considering he didn't have any run game at all for games at a time.

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You guys are fools.

Nuss is not better than Burrow as a first year starter.

1. We run a completely different offense now than 2018

2. Burrow protected the ball and only threw 4 interceptions. Don’t recall but say he lost 2 fumbles as well.
That means Nuss has turned the ball over at least twice as many times.

Stop making Nuss into something he is not.

He played really well last night. Will he be better next year if he returns. Let’s hope so.

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What kills me is guys being floored that a redshirt junior who has been in the same system and coached by the same QB coach for the past 3 years wouldn't do better as a passer as two guys getting into a completely different system and learning how to do stuff in a couple months before the season starts along with trying to win a competition.

Im one of the select few that will tell it like it is from all 3 QBs and not sugar coat it.

Burrow was bad to below average for 75% of his first year. Sure he didn't turn over the ball much, but he also didn't do much. Against the top 5 derenses he played, he had all 5 ints and i think 1-2 TDs. The last 4 games of the year he caught on fire, however they were also 4 of the worst defenses we played that year.

Daniels had an even worse OL than Nuss (all 3 had pretty bad to mediocre OLs), yet he finished with 3800 total yards and 29 total TDs from scrimmage in 11.5 games. Unlike Nuss, Daniels was taken out of games half way when we were blowing teams out. He missed way mors stats. He didn't play a full half vs Southern nor Purdue and only played 1 half vs UGA because of injury (threw for 200 yards and 1 TD in a half despite playing on one foot). Daniels was literally the only reason we had a chance to beat FSU (Kelly not going for 2 at the end still baffles me). Now it wasn't always rainbows. The Auburn.game was terrible, the TAMU game was terrible, the Arkansas game was terrible, but I'd side with Kelly on it being partly because of him having the flu. I still consider that the best 1st year start of a QB for LSU in forever, if not ever. He made the rushing unit good because of his running ability aiding it. That OL was turrible, but we had 4 guys average 5 yards a carry or more, with 5 runners scoring at least 5 TDs and 3 scoring at least 8 TDs.

Nuss was elite vs bad teams and was a turnover machine vs any good teams. That was pretty much it. He wasn't a bad QB, but when he had to get up for big games he folded like a cheap suit. He came back and beat Ole Miss in the end, I'll give him props, but he was the reason why he had to come back. Defense held them in check for like 80% of the game, but when you keep turning the ball over, that's the problem you get. I'm not going to hate on the kid because he was more good than bad. I'll take all the other problems he had easily as long as he gets those damn turnovers in control. LSU hasn't had a turnover prone QB full year starter since Anthony Jennings. That's the one thing stopping him from being a top 10 NFL draft pick. If Chris Hilton can stay healthy for just one year (2025), we could lead the country in scoring next year and im not joking. I expect them to put heavy emphasis on the run game and if Nuss just turns down the turnovers, we are a title contender.