LSU OL stats showed great run-blocking and efficent run-game

Jayden Daniels is the main cog in an improved running game. He had like 55 runs over 10 yards or something crazy. LSU was 9th nationally in converting 3rd downs.

The threat of Daniels made Josh Williams and others viable in the run game. Williams went from walk on scrub to fans asking when he will get drafted

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The threat of Daniels made Josh Williams and others viable in the run game. Williams went from walk on scrub to fans asking when he will get drafted

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But I was told Daniels hurts the running game and Nuss’s ability to throw the ball all over the place opens up the running game.

If they can add layers to the passing game this offseason it can be deadly. Much moreso than anything Nuss can bring

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But I was told Daniels hurts the running game and Nuss’s ability to throw the ball all over the place opens up the running game.

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Daniel’s is our run game. We don’t have a down field attacking passing game with him

Really good O line Coach, QB that can move, and both OT's playing lights out their first year made up for an overall average interior line and no superstar RB.

With how they're building the O line, it's gonna be fun watching LSU consistently get better and better...

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The throwing ability of JD is good enough to make defenses respect him so can't just stack a box on him

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But this is exactly what arky,a&m and uga did. They sat is zone and begged JD to try to take the top off the defense and he wouldn't.

You also said he doesn't run an efficient offense when you're wrong on that as stats prove otherwise.

He also played fine in Georgia game. That wasn't the reason they lost. He played on that game with 1 foot and still threw the ball effectively.

TAMU got him. That was his bad game. Arkansas as well but he was also sick in that game apparently. We'll see how he develops moving forward. Looked fine against Purdue though I know they aren't a good measure.

Keep in mind this was with essentially 3.5 new starters on the OL this year (Campbell, Jones, Turner + Frazier) with 2 of those being true freshmen, Frazier a sophomore.

The Top 6 Olinemen all return for next season who played a lot this year too.

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Nuss over Daniels

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Sacks increase,

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Not sure this is true. Keep in mind Daniels takes quite a few extra "sacks" trying to scramble and running into a Dlineman and losing a yard or two a lot from LOS which is a "sack". That wouldnt happen with Nuss.

I understand the argument Daniels can evade more pressure than Nuss, but Nuss could also be considered a quicker decision maker than Daniels considering he doesnt have the luxury of escaping pressure last minute like Daniels knows he can a lot of times.

We gave up a ton sacks this season with Daniels back there. PFF has us with 44 total, 42 from Daniels, 1 from Nussmeier and 1 from Howard.

Nussmeier took 84 attempts on 85 drop backs to Daniels 390 attempts on 504 drop backs yet only got sacked once to Daniels being sacked 42 times.

Nussmeier took on average 2.43 seconds to throw the ball every drop back. Daniels took on average 2.94 seconds to throw the ball every drop back.

So long story short, Nussmeier would probably be sacked a lot less than Daniels.