re: Jayden Daniels Top 10 graded QB by PFF in 2022

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He played with the flu

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Everyone knows he was sick for that game and he wasn’t the only one, but some people are so upset about his overall success and that of the team they will use anything in their attempt to beat him bout the head and shoulders.

A good many of those types are simply trolls

“Everyone knows he was sick for that game and he wasn’t the only one,”


And you don’t find it funny that other players had it too but the only player who gets that excuse applied to him is Daniels?

It strains credulity. What are the criteria?

All true. They fall to acknowledge that Daniels's running yardage would have been dwarfed by passing yards with a competent QB. So much left undone as the saying goes.

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Holy shite... yeah that's not how this works. If jayden daniels was a better passers we don't lose 4 games... right...?

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This is a fact that many here do not wish to acknowledge They do not lose to FSU for sure. They have a good chance LSU beats TAMU as well. His fumble certainly did not help.

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I don't think better QB play beats A&M, as they completely controlled the ball. We simply could not stop them. Better play could have kept us closer, but Achane got over 200 yds rushing.
And yeah, the fumble hurt. That's the exact point a lot of people make about Nussmeier's penchant for interceptions. Turnovers make it harder to win games.

Despite it all, if Lacy catches an open 3rd down pass, and Jenkins holds a TD, we might have seen a different game.

As for Fla State... are you nuts? Fla State had 14 play drives- twice. Another drive went 12 plays. Also drives of 9 and 8 plays. When they got the ball, they drove methodically down the field on us, continuously. We only made them punt twice... they got the ball back on both of those.
We had 2 kicks blocked. Our running backs ran for 39 yds (not counting Daniels). Our "superstar" WR Boutte, dropped on hard TD that he did get both hands on. He also didn't even try to catch another TD, wasn't looking for the ball- which almost hit him in the chest.
Despite all that, we had a chance to tie or win, and if we go for 2 at the end I think we steal that game.

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Obviously you’ve seized on a narrative so there’s no point in trying to explain to that correlation doesn’t equal causation but you wouldn’t understand that any way

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But Muh cOmplEmeNtaRy foOtBalL...The offense put no pressure on the opposing team...at all. We'll all discuss this come December '23. OK? I will gladly admit that I was wrong should that be the case.

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He had the second lowest yards per pass for an LSU QB in the last 20 years,

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Where did you get that stat?
Jayden ended the season at 7.5 yards per attempt this year.


2021- Max Johnson- 7.5 Yards per attempt
2020- Max Johnson- 7.1
2020- TJ Finley- 6.7
2014- Anthony Jennings- 7.1
2012- Zach Mettenberger- 7.4
2010- Jordan Jefferson- 6.8
2009- Jordan Jefferson- 7.3
2008- Jarrett Lee- 7.0
2007- Matt Flynn- 6.7

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the 24th ranked ypc in the SEC

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20th averaging 4.8 yards per carry. This was second among SEC QBs (Anthony Richardson was 1st)

Daniels was 6th this year in pass efficiency rating in the SEC.

People like Mickey love to use stats to spin a story.

Lies.
Damn lies.
Statistics.

Actually, seeing how the stats were generated is important also. Again, JD5 will get another bite of the apple next year. I can't wait....

I must confess that part of my apprehension about JD5 stems from the awful QB play LSU has had for YEARS. Maybe that is not fair, but CLM really went out of his way to see that the QB would not factor into victory (or so it seemed to me). JD is not awful, but in my view lacks an understanding of the fundamentals. He is a gamer. I am sure that 'quit' is not in his lexicon, but thus far he has not played well as a QB.

He’s not awful, far from it, which is why I talked out the 3 game stretch where he and the offense were at their best by a lot. There’s a formula for winning with a QB like him and when we got away from that he wasn’t good and the offense wasn’t good. The problem with the discussion is you’re talking to people who claim he’s perfect and anytime he played bad it was someone else’s fault.