Passing game needs to be more vertical

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When watching games, almost all of the plays that I call horizontal, result in lost or little positive yardage. Most of these are behind or near the line-of-scrimmage. It also opens up the potential of the DB jumping the route and causing a costly turnover.

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It's one game, those have been mostly successful forus when we run them and at least some of those are dump routes.

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We need to create more downfield routes, especially over the middle with the TE (Taylor) or a quick slot receiver (Anderson). These can result in 5-?? yard gains and keep the chains moving.

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I think a few more quick slants and the tight end chipping then peeling off over the middle would be a very effective play of the RPO when Nuss does pull. I think he is not pulling it enough in that situation and often not dumping quickly when he does.

I still have visions of Spurrier's wideouts running free on slants across the middle. A haunting memory!

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Passing game needs to be more vertical

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i keep thinking one of those long our routes is going to be a pick 6 soon... throw the damn ball to the middle of the field.

He sure did last game, but he's done some really good things over the course of the year. Hopefully he brings the good game for Bama

The long throws are typically contested throws because LSU doesn't have elite speed, with the exception of Hilton. Anderson can run, but he's so small, it's going to be difficult for him to fight off a bigger defensive back for the ball. There's no telling how many times Chase, Jefferson, Nabers and Thomas went up over defenders to make catches. With the exception of an occasional play by Lacey or perhaps Hilton, we don't have that this year.

Without elite speed to get separation or size to body defenders, Nussmeier has to make almost perfect throws. Inexplicably, when a receiver does break free on a deep route, Nussmeier mostly overthrows them. He'll make some beautiful throws down the sideline to receivers tightly covered, then miss wide open shots. Hard to figure.

Unfortunately Nuss is below avg on his deep balls, or our recievers can't get open and are slow.

After watching daniels just drop it in the bucket last season it sucks to watch us struggle with this

Did you forget Ole Miss? He's completing 51% of his passes AGAINST SEC opponents with 7TDS and 6INTS. He sucks.

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Every excuse in the world instead of just stating the truth, the qb sucks

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I don’t think he sucks. He could be more efficient and make better decisions, but the absence of an effective run game means that the defense is better able to defend the pass (keeping more guys out of the box to disrupt passing lanes) and the quarterback is almost entirely responsible for moving the offense down the field through the air (more likely to need to force throws).

Clearly something is going on with his reluctance to run the ball (zone read or scrambling), but if that is the case, then the play calling is not taking it into account.

2 of our most used WRs (with Daniels and Hilton banged up) are 5’8”. Tough to win down the field when that is the case

Nuss is 20-62 (32%) throwing the ball over 20yds

And you want more uncatchable overthrows?