re: Nuss is currently one of the the best in the biz

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Reminds me of J Lee. Falls backward on throws.

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Nah, Lee went backwards because he was terrified of getting hit. It had nothing to do with him trusting his arm strength, because he didn’t have enough to get away with some of the throws Nuss does. Nuss doesn’t drift backwards as much as he sprints. I don’t know if there’s no pocket for him to step up into (haven’t paid much attention) or if he’s just more comfortable from back there and trusts his arm and accuracy to make strong, accurate throws. And so far he’s been great at it. But it’s not sustainable. Once SEC DCs with better corners get more film on him and figure out his tendencies, they’re gonna start baiting him into those throws and the DBs will jump the routes. I predicted he’d throw a few pick 6s because of this. But you can live with a couple of those through the season. Take the bad with the extremely good. I didn’t expect him to throw pick 6s into triple coverage from the red zone.

BUT, like I said earlier, I’m glad he made these mistakes early and in a win. He’ll get coached up and do a much better job of that moving forward. He’s old (relatively for a 1st year starter) and hasn’t played a lot of real-game football since his SR year in high school. The more he plays, the more he sees, the more comfortable he’ll get getting in the rhythm of playing every week, the better he’ll get, and I think he’ll be playing his best ball by the end of the year.

Got his 1st road win on the road. Nice milestone. He got his 1st SEC victory. Another milestone. Let’s just hope he doesn’t throw a stinker out there against a good team that causes us to lose so he can continue to build confidence. But Sloan/BK aren’t making it any easier on him. I was really surprised that they couldn’t scheme some more of our WRs open for some easy reads and explosive plays. Any good OC should be able to do that at least a couple of times a game with our WRs. We had 1 to Taylor for a TD.

The OL and running backs hadn’t done him any favors the 1st 2 games until they finally went to Durham. He makes us soooo much better by keeping us ahead of the chains, and makes it easier on Sloan because it opens up the playbook, which will all help Nuss. He shouldn’t have to thread a needle into a tight window as often as he has been, relying on his velocity and accuracy. He can’t be expected to make some of the results throws he’s made to keep drives alive.

And I’m convinced he’s being told not to run on RPOs or pull it on inside zones, because they are terrified of him getting hurt and know the season is over if he goes down. But scared money don’t make money. It’s low risk for him to pull it and keep it around the edge a couple times a game, but high reward. And for the love of God, we’ve got to use more play action.

I have to say, race baiting has become an interesting defense mechanism. Almost like you are trying to mask how he almost threw the game away multiple times yesterday

Ugh

I guess Saban and Herstreit are wrong, and Lester is right, because they think he is special. His stats are phenomenal for a 4 game starter, especially playing a couple good defenses.

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He played like shite yesterday

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He was literally one of the bright spots.

He sure wasn’t great. He got extremely lucky to be bailed out on those horrendous pick six throws. He’s got to stop throwing off his back foot falling away.

He got bailed out big time by that personal foul

That was just a horrendous decision and a god awful throw that should have sealed the game for SC.

But, sometimes you get lucky and live to fight another day

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of the fan base won’t give him credit because he’s white

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Yeah the plight of white qbs is legendary.

Where do you idiots come from?

Not even close those stats don’t mean nothing