re: Is 2014 Kwon Alexander's year to shine?

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What does that have to do with it? I don't care where he was on the depth chart last summer, how many stars Scout gave him, his 40 time or his favorite color. Remind me when we get a quarterback at LSU that plays like he played last year. I haven't seen it in my lifetime. I'm not definitively saying we don't have one on the roster right now, but there's absolutely no reason to think we do at this point.

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The point I'm trying to make is that one poster is being a "debi downer" because of our Jennings' lack of experience.......but he showed enough to be the #2 guy ahead of 2 older QB's with game experience where as Winston did not show that as a true freshman.

Boom at datbsyoubengal, totally agree. Excited for next year

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It really depends on how dependent Bama was with McCarron and A@M was with JM.

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I would have to say huge to both.

I mean, I laughed when I saw the a&m part.

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Why no love for Rasco, who was our best DE last year? Had as good a year as Mingo did the year before.

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Having the same amount of sacks doesnt mean he had as good a year.

Mingo was constantly being blocked by 2+ guys. And still was able to get a lot of pressure on the QB. This past year was 1 of the worst we have had when it comes to getting pressure on the QB.

And Hunter was our best DE during the 2nd half of the year. Was really really good from the UF game on. I like Rasco a lot. But hes just not that explosive. Hes a solid DE.

And to the OP, Kwon was our best LB last year and a top 3 player on defense.

Most of the time, Mingo had an OT on him and a RB/TE/WR chipping him. So it might not have been a tradition double team, but he had 2 guys blocking him, especially on passing plays. Teams had to game plan for Mingo. Not so much for Rasco.

If Mingo is an 8 at DE, Rasco is a 5. And I like Rasco. Just think he came in with way too much hype out of high school. Hes not great at anything, but hes solid at all. But hes just not explosive.

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Look how the coaches tied our QB's hands in the bowl game but needed him to let it fly against Arkansas (a shame with all the time to prepare)

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Uhh... we were losing to Arkansas when Jennings came in dude. And against the clock. And Arkys D was horrible. Did you expect us to run the ball in that situation? Just accept defeat because Mett got hurt? OK... makes a lot of sense. And Jennings only had 7 passes in the Arky game.

Iowa's D was complete opposite of Arkys. Very tough and solid and mistake free. And did you not see the way Hill ran the ball against them? Why would we throw it when we never really needed to? Plus it was wet. And when we did throw it, Jennings looked uncomfortable and had happy feet and had a few bad passes. If we would have passed a lot that game, we most likely would have lost. And Iowa would have turned up the heat and put the pressure on Jennings.

And Jennings had a lot of time to prepare, and still didnt look good. And its not like we threw it 8 times or whatever. We threw it 19 times that game. With Mett we averaged like 25pass attempts per game. Not a huge difference. And Jennings was 7/19 (37%) for 82 yards with an INT and 4 sacks. Its not like he was efficient when we threw it. He struggled against Iowa. And a lot of QB did. Iowa had a really good D last year. If Jennings looked comfortable and wasnt missing the easy passes that we was, we might have thrown it only a few more times.

Our game plan vs Iowa was very similar to the game plan vs UF, and that was even with Mett. Going against a team with a very good D but struggled on offense. You know youre not going to score a lot of points against them, and they wont score that much against you. Run the ball, dominate TOP, get their D tired. Which is what we did.

And about Winston... he was a RS freshman. Same with Manziel. Both guys were in their 2nd year. And please dont compare Winston / Manziel to Jennings.