re: LSU 1st Year QB Stats

Danny Etling was a good quarterback.

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Trying to absolve him of all guilt and making excuses for him doesn’t do anyone any good.

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I was not doing that at all. Simply pointing out obvious things that worked against him at points this season. Its not a secret the run game was mostly non existent this year, its also not a secret once Dellinger went down the OLine play took a huge nose dive when you had Mubenga alongside a struggling Chester as well. These are things we need to get fixed moving forward. Nuss has his own things to work on like deep(er) balls and not trying to make everything happen that isn't there at times. Nuss gives us a great foundation for next year though as we've seen some massive leaps from previous QBs in year 2 starting here, and he had a really solid year overall this one.

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It’s easy to complete 63% of your throws when you’re throwing 10 yards parallel to the LOS to gain 6 yards on 3rd & 23.

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Nuss had one of the lower screen rates in the conference this year at 14.9%. There were QBs in the 26-30% range like Beck and Ewers.

His adjusted completion was 71%, which for a guy who didnt throw many screens is very solid.

Nuss is da MAN! He's the king of them all, y'all!

He has got to stop throwing interceptions.

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Also include that most of Garrett's 11 INT's came during the 3 game skid where he played (and the rest of the team) as bad as I've seen a QB play.

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Burrow did have a 4 game stretch in 2018 where he had 0 TDs and 4 INTs (Bama, State, UGA and UF).
Bama was a 29-0 loss. State was a 19-3 win. UGA was not great passing, but JB had a big TD run. UF was a loss sealed by a JB pick 6.

Uhhh, Jayden didn’t throw 26 TDs in 2022

Yards per game (rushing included)
Nuss- 307 (12 games)
JD- 271 (14 games)
Burrow- 253 (13 games)

TDs
Nuss- 29
JD- 27
Burrow- 23

Passing efficiency rating
JD- 144
Nuss- 140
Burrow- 133

Yards per play
Nuss- 7.2
JD- 6.6
Burrow- 6.5

Total plays
JD- 574
Nuss- 523
Burrow- 507

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Also include that most of Garrett's 11 INT's came during the 3 game skid where he played (and the rest of the team) as bad as I've seen a QB play.

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Let’s not get carried away


Y’all are so overdramatic

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Burrow against ranked teams in 2018

Miami 11/24 140 yards 0 TDs 0 INTs
Auburn 15/34 249 yards 1 TD 0 INTs
Florida 19/34 192 yards 0 TDs 2 INTs
UGA 15/30 200 yards, 0 TDs 0 INTs
State 16/28 129 yards 0 TDs 1 INT
Alabama 18/35 195 yards 0 TD 1 INT
Texas A&M 25/38 270 yards 3 TDs 0 INT
UCF 21/34 394 yards, 4 TDs, 1 INT

Burrow wasn't lighting the world on fire against ranked teams or anyone else until the A&M game the last game of the season But he did have a solid running game and really good defense behind him.

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JB also added 249 rushing yards and 5 rushing TDs against those same ranked teams.

Before 1st starting season Nuss did have a lot more experience playing college football with all of it being at LSU than Burrow had when he transferred to LSU the summer before his first starting season.

In 2018 Burrow also played within the limitations of a very Les like and predictable offense, and he also just had the summer before the season to get familiar with the offense, teammates, coaching staff, and LSU & area in general.

In 2024 Nuss had already been at LSU for 3 seasons including 2 seasons with Kelly, Sloan, and other current coaches and with many players for multiple seasons including spring practices and off season workouts. He had the starting job from before bowl game after 2023 regular season thru the following spring practice and summer to work exclusively as the starting QB for the upcoming 2024 season.

Before 2018 Burrow had 39 attempted passes for 287 yards in 3 seasons at Ohio State with all being during late mop up duty in 9 games across 2 seasons (didn’t have a pass his true freshman season and don’t think he ever played that year).

Before 2024 Nuss had 219 attempted passes for 1,720 yards in 18 games across 3 seasons of actual game experience including significant playing time in SEC championship & in the bowl game after that 2022 season, the start in bowl game after 2023 season, most of 4th quarter against Auburn in 2022, most of 4th quarter against Bama in 2023, and even during his true freshman season in 2021 played most of the game against a ranked Ark team after entering in the first quarter and played against a ranked Ole Miss team for most of the 4th quarter. Nuss had more attempts and yards during his 2021 true freshman season alone than JB had during his entire 3 season career at Ohio State before transferring to LSU.

I like Nuss and think he can improve, but any comparison to JB’s first season especially if trying to be predictive of improvement in season 2 as a starter has to look at more than just first starting season stats.