re: Jennings Long Passes Last Yr

Jennings' s deep ball is a thing of beauty. It doesn't necessarily mean he has a strong arm though because when throwing deep you have to put a lot of air under it. He doesn't have the ability to fire a 20-yard laser which is a throw you have to make if you want to run Cam Cameron's offense. I'm on my phone...is anyone able to post Mett's first play action pass of the 2013 TCU game to Landry? That's what we're looking for.

ETA: LINK

Go to 5:35. The first 1st down pass of the game. Just gorgeous. By all accounts Harris can make that throw look just as easy.

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The point i was trying to make was that 89% of his passes accounted for 48% of his yards. That's not good QB play

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As has been stated, the passes that travel the farthest before hitting the receiver will ALWAYS comprise a disproportionate amount of yardage.

This is true for every quarterback at every level of football.

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So now Rant, please use the foregoing facts to draw your preconceived conclusion that Jennings sucks and Harris is the savior of the world.

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I'm not really sure what you were hoping to prove with those stats.

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So now Rant, please use the foregoing facts to draw your preconceived conclusion that Jennings sucks and Harris is the savior of the world.

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I'm not really sure what you were hoping to prove with those stats.

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I'm not trying to prove anything with those facts. I was merely using those facts to demonstrate that the OP's conclusion was unsupported and without analysis.

Nevertheless, as expressed in my post, I have little doubt that some Jennings basher will use the stats in my post to conclude that Jennings should transfer from LSU and never play football again.

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Whatever you say, Sal. Draw whatever conclusions you want, I was just asking. Look a little deeper into my post history and you'll see me giving Jennings credit where it's due.

You really think I hate Jennings and want to see him fail. That's your problem.

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It's not my problem. I have NEVER said that you want to see him fail. Quit creating strawmen.

However, I would love for you to tell me honestly what you would have said if the stats showed that Jennings had many 0-8 yard completions compared to what you would have said if the stats showed that Jennings had few 0-8 yard completions.

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It's quite a mystery as to why he can throw a 50 yard bomb on a dime but has issues with a 2 yard out floating on him.

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Read the above responses to the OP.

In summary, long passes just need to be lobbed out there and let the receiver adjust. Shorter throws actually need to be much more accurate.

No that shows just how bad our Qb situation was last year. It really is amazing we won eight games with virtually no pass threat whatsoever besides a bomb here and there.

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How many of those were before SEC schedule? Also, how many of those were caught beyond 20 yds? Dural and Diarse each had some where they caught short to medium passes and got yac yards. I'm confident Jennings didn't have many passes caught beyond 20yds.

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Three against Ole Miss, two against Auburn, one against MSU, one against UF, one against UK, and one against TAMU. They all traveled at least 20 yards through the air, and most traveled 30+ yards.

Look, there are a ton of things you can critique about him, but his deep ball is not one. Watching over those vids I don't know how many times I heard them say 'beautiful deep ball'.

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his biggest problems was being able to put a ball on a spot. Being able to zip it in when the ball needs to go only one place.

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This is INCREDIBLY hard to do, and I'm convinced that if we took all 12 starting SEC quarterbacks, the biggest difference in each's ability to do this is more than 75% mental. Look, you don't start in the SEC without having an arm that has a ton of physical capability. That's just a given. But to be able to do what Mett/Landry/Beckham did, or Davey/Reed did, you have to have so much confidence in not only your own ability to hit that spot, but also the receiver's ability to beat a guy to that spot that's as fast, big, and strong as he is.

Mett and his crew of receivers made that look so easy, to the point that post Mett, fans "suffer" through multi year disappointments, as we'd just gotten used to 3rd and 14 being no problem. What we had in that crew, or again, the Davey/Reed combo was just as good - was rare - you just don't see it too often. It was a rare as it was beautiful, and specifically when it comes to, as the OP says, "zipping the ball to that one place it needs to go." When Mett's arm and passing success gets put in contrast IMMEDIATELY with an AJ and the year he had last year throwing the ball, it makes AJ's stuff look particularly awful, when it reality, it probably wasn't AS horrible looking as it seemed (and look here, do NOT get confused - I'm not saying it was acceptable, or ok, or only looked back because he followed a great passing team - it was HORRENDOUS). I'm just saying it's uglier than it is because it's getting looked at behind something stunning.